Dozens of evangical Christian leaders have signed a letter calling for Washington to pass a law reducing carbon dioxide emissions, citing their concern about climate change! This is a stunning reversal. For years, 99% of evangelical Christians have stubbornly denied that man-caused global warming even exists. Rush Limbaugh devoted a chapter of I Told You So to the global warming "myth", and Jerry Falwell once said concerns about global warming were "created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability," adding, "I urge everyone to go out and buy an SUV." Environmentalists are consistently portrayed by fundies as neo-Pagan, pinko nutbars bent on destroying capitalism for the sake of a few squirrels and trees. Most evangelicals subscribed to the idea that all of the earth's natural resources were bestowed on man as a gift, to be used in whatever way we see fit - ignoring the concept of responsible stewardship. Now some of them are apologizing for failing to see the long-term implications of such a policy.
But there are holdouts, of course. Several evangelical leaders have written a letter to the National Association of Evangelicals, urging it not to take a stand against global warming because evangelicals aren't in agreement on it. Signatories include James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family; Charles Colson, Watergate scoundrel and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention; Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University; Donald Wildmon, head the American Family Association; and the Rev. Louis Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition.
For more information on the evangelical Christian campaign against global warming, see www.christiansandclimate.org.
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"Most evangelicals subscribed to the idea that all of the earth's natural resources were bestowed on man as a gift, to be used in whatever way we see fit - ignoring the concept of responsible stewardship."
This is the same justificattion they use for having too many kids and overpopulating us into oblivion!
Not surprised about the S. Baptists. They've got their pious heads too far up their butts to see what's going on around them.
Heehee. I was reading an article yesterday about an
"intelligent design" (creationism) textbook trial, and the creationists' two lawyers had 17 kids between them.
No surprises there!
Like I said on another blog on this very topic: I hope some politicians get on board now.
BTW: Oral Roberts has a university? WTF? That is scary!
WC - It gets scarier; once Oral Roberts ensconced himself in a tower on campus and refused to come down until people donated $1 million to him. (If they didn't, God would kill him)
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