Run Al! Oh Please?????????? Gore: ‘Heaping contempt’ on creation inconsistent with glorifying God

[babsbunny]

http://www.abpnews.com/3002.article

By Hannah Elliott
Published February 1, 2008


ATLANTA (ABP) -- Christians who speak out for environmentalism can combat skepticism and end America’s addiction to carbon fuels, Al Gore told 2,000 Baptists who gathered to hear him Jan. 31 in part of a three-day celebration of denominational unity.

“Don’t tell me we can’t solve this climate crisis. If we had just one week’s worth of the money spent in Iraq, we’d be well down the road,” Gore told the loudly applauding crowd. “This is not a political issue. It is a moral issue. It is an ethical issue. It is a spiritual issue. … All we need is the political will.”

Gore, whose environmental work produced a popular movie and book called Inconvenient Truth and earned him a Nobel Prize, spoke for an hour and a half at the New Baptist Covenant meeting in Atlanta, pounding out a message that related extreme poverty and global warming, addressed misconceptions regarding the climate crisis and offered hope for slowing and reducing carbon emissions.

Gore also called on Baptists, including Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter, who were in the audience, to face global warming as an opportunity to change human history -- and to demand that political leaders do the same.

“In every crisis there is an opportunity for a reawakening and for a reassessment and for a change of course and an opportunity to do things better. And that’s what the climate crisis is really all about.”

[peace frog]

1. That train has left the station

Gore will not run. Evidently hope springs eternal among the faithful, though I can't see why. Accept reality and move on.

[Uncle Joe]

2. That whole column is a good read.

Thanks for the thread, babsbunny.