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.

[BoneDaddy]

1. The problem with the greening of Evangelicals is...

that it is in DIRECT opposition to their little RAPTURE wetdream, the coming of Jesus and the end of the world.

To admit that global warming is a reality stemming from the effects of humans upon the earth, then removes it from God's hands and places some responsibility on all of US.

They are just so ready and convinced Jesus is going to come and SAVE them and that that responsibility is out of their hands.

Incredibly sad.

[AX10]

2. They are still obsesed with gay marriage and abortion.

:eyes:

[NeoGreen]

3. We should use this as a wedge issue...

If they are undecided on this, then we should make a point of discussing it and possibly splintering some groups/votes.

Not necessarily to gain votes on our side but to create issues that will divide them on their side.