"Well, Jerry Falwell can ask the Lord now himself about this matter of climate change"

[dajoki]

Guess Who Came to the Evangelicals' Dinner
By Dana Milbank
Friday, October 12, 2007; Page A02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102537.html

In the wildly popular "Left Behind" series of evangelical Christian novels, the Antichrist takes the form of the secretary general of the United Nations, sets up an abortion-promoting world government and becomes the Global Community Supreme Potentate.

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Actually, the NAE, the umbrella group for the nation's evangelical denominations, brought in the real U.N. secretary general, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, not his fictional satanic equivalent, Nicolae Carpathia of Romania. But for the Rev. Richard Cizik, the NAE official who invited Ban, it was just about as daring. Evangelical Christians regard the United Nations' blue helmets with about as much enthusiasm as Satan's red horns.

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It was a sensible precaution. Pat Robertson, speaking for many religious conservatives, has warned of the menace of a "one-world government controlled by the United Nations." In a Fox News poll last month, Republicans (including the vast majority of evangelicals) took a dim view of the United Nations by 2 to 1.

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But Cizik, neither silenced nor fired, offers no apologies for his view that Christians must be as serious about healing as they are about preaching if they are to follow Jesus's words. "Jerry Falwell . . . said the only people who believe in this climate-change business are the blue-state Democrats, the U.N. types and misinformed evangelicals," Cizik recalled last night. "Well, Jerry Falwell can ask the Lord now himself about this matter of climate change."

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Ban may have confirmed some of his hosts' fears at the start of his speech, when he reminded the gathering that "the United Nations is a secular institution." He continued: "We have six official languages but no official religion. We do not have a chapel -- though we do have a meditation room."

[NanceGreggs]

1. If Jerry Falwell wants to speak to 'the Lord' ...

... his only option at this point is a very, very, very, very, very long-distance phone call.

[Carrieyazel]

2. Where Jere's at right now, I doubt he can talk.

[dajoki]

3. misinformed evangelicals n/t