Evangelicals Will Not Take Stand on Global Warming

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102132.html


The National Association of Evangelicals said yesterday that it has been unable to reach a consensus on global climate change and will not take a stand on the issue, disappointing environmentalists who had hoped that evangelical Christians would prod the Bush administration to soften its position on global warming.

Over the past four years a growing number of evangelical groups have embraced environmental causes, urging Christians to engage in "Creation care" and campaigning against gas-guzzling SUVs with advertisements asking, "What would Jesus drive?"

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But this fledgling movement -- dubbed the "greening of evangelicals" in a front-page Washington Post article a year ago -- has also met internal resistance. In a letter to Haggard last month, more than 20 evangelical leaders urged the NAE not to adopt "any official position" on global climate change because "Bible-believing evangelicals . . . disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue."

The letter's signers amounted to a Who's Who of politically powerful evangelicals, including Charles W. Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family; the Rev. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries; the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention; Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University; Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association; and the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition.
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what would jesus drive? they are all nuts.

[derby378]

1. Ah, but that would involve SCIENCE

And we certainly can't have that, now, can we?

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Ah. The gangs all here.

The letter's signers amounted to a Who's Who of politically powerful evangelicals, including Charles W. Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family; the Rev. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries; the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention; Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University; Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association; and the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition.

Nice they care so much about the people and the earth that "God" created... unless they don't really think he created it... hummm..... oh wait. They must do as the dictator.... shrubbie.... dictates. That is their true "God."

[jumpoffdaplanet]

3. They believe it will bring on the rapture

Look for them to do everything to increase global warming.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. One question:

Who gives a rat's ass what these idiots think about anything?

Let them go inside their churches, coming out only to do good deeds, and shut the fuck up.

[Initech]

5. Does depletion of the ozone layer bring them closer to Jesus?

[buff2]

6. These phoney bastards are evil

fascist nazis who have to walk in lockstep with their glorious "christian" DICK-tator. They don't give a flying phuck about what Jesus or God teaches....it's THEIR way or the highway. God bless them all and pass the collection plate. :puke:

[longship]

7. Global warming is good for the planet.

Global warming means more beachfront property.

Global warming means drilling for oil at tne North Pole.

Global warming means no more snow shovelling.

Global warming means sun tans for everybody.

Global warming means the Rapture will be coming any day now.

on edit: Forgot this... :sarcasm:

[applegrove]

8. Should be DAM CLEAR if god created earth & heaven that preserving

it is our duty. Especially if you are Christian. But apparently big oil put an ear worm into xtian religion in the USA and the churches cannot wean themselves off big oil cash.

[hatrack]

9. It's much more fun to abandon the responsibility adults ostensibly hold

(In a socially acceptable, shitty Tim LaHaye-book-buying kind of way, of course) and just wait for Super Kung-Fu Jesus (with Sin-redeeming grip!) to come back and trash the place.

After all, it doesn't have anything to do with them . . . .

And imagine what they'll say when they find out that it has everything to do with them.