{"id":6461,"date":"2011-02-20T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:55:15","slug":"church-and-state-hook-up-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2011\/02\/church-and-state-hook-up-in-minnesota.html","title":{"rendered":"Church and state hook up in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Beard-Michael-R-35A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/2011\/02\/Beard-Michael-R-35A-796x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2011\/02\/20\/gop-lawmaker-claims-god-will-provide-natural-resources-forever-and-ever\/\">I found this story over at Unreasonable Faith<\/a>, which is a fitting title for this story. Because as far as I can tell, Mike Beard&#8211;one of God&#8217;s GOPeeps (state representative in Minnesota)&#8211;does seem completely unreasonable (and seemingly, he lacks good sense). Okay, maybe he&#8217;s brilliant in other areas&#8230; but regarding this one, he lacks sense (and that&#8217;s being nice about it).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Beard] recently argued that coal mining should resume in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, in part because he believes God has created an earth that will provide unlimited natural resources.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em> \u201cGod is not capricious. He\u2019s given us a creation that is dynamically stable,\u201d Beard told MinnPost. \u201cWe are not going to run out of anything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Beard is currently in the midst of drafting legislation that would overturn Minnesota\u2019s moratorium on coal-fired power plants, an effort that he backs due to his religious belief that God will provide limitless resources while ensuring that humans don\u2019t destroy the planet trying to get them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/2011\/02\/18\/gop-lawmaker-claims-god-will-provide-unlimited-natural-resources\/\">SOURCE<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\/\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this story over at Unreasonable Faith, which is a fitting title for this story. Because as far as I can tell, Mike Beard&#8211;one of God&#8217;s GOPeeps (state representative in Minnesota)&#8211;does seem completely unreasonable (and seemingly, he lacks good sense). Okay, maybe he&#8217;s brilliant in other areas&#8230; but regarding this one, he lacks sense&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church and state hook up in Minnesota - Jesus Needs New PR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2011\/02\/church-and-state-hook-up-in-minnesota.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church and state hook up in Minnesota - Jesus Needs New PR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I found this story over at Unreasonable Faith, which is a fitting title for this story. 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