Southern Baptists Take on Global Warming

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/jun/13/061304423.html

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Southern Baptists weighed a resolution on global warming Wednesday that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor.

A vote on the resolution was planned for Wednesday night, near the end of the denomination's annual meeting.

The global warming debate has split evangelicals, with some not only pressing the issue but arguing humans bear most of the responsibility for the problem because of greenhouse gas emissions. Other evangelicals say talking about the issue at all diminishes their influence over more traditional culture war issues such as abortion, gay marriage and judicial appointments.

The SBC resolution acknowledges a rise in global temperatures. It rejects government-mandated limits on carbon-dioxide and other emissions as "very dangerous" because they might not significantly lower temperatures and could lead to "major economic hardships" worldwide.

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[ixion]

1. and you know what will "hurt the poor" more than increased greenhouse gas regs?

the extreme weather this is going to result from man-made global warming.

[kestrel91316]

2. They're not worried about the poor. They're worried about the prices

on their stock holdings.

Short-term corporate profits rule the world.

[Nihil]

8. Tut tut ... don't you remember?

"Put not your faith in environmentalists for they are the spawn of
the Devil who tempts you into doubting the given word of scripture.
Nay, thou shalt rather trust thine investment funds for the managers
thereof are verily men of the True Church."

Can't find the reference just now but I'm sure it's somewhere in there ...
:dilemma:

[louis-t]

3. I wish the dialogue would focus less on who's to blame

and more on correcting a problem. In the end, it doesn't matter if humans are to blame. It only matters what humans DO about it.

[BootinUp]

4. unbelieveable - well maybe I should retract that

how predictably stupid.

[greenman3610]

5. religion is used as a tool by the powerful

and the idea that there are limits, natural limits on what
the ecosystem can bear is anathema to certain powerful conservatives.
The southern baptists can be counted on to support any
degree of rapacity and plunder as being 'the will of God".

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. "Other evangelicals say talking about the issue at all ...

... diminishes their influence over more traditional culture war issues such as abortion, gay marriage and judicial appointments".

Yeah. Because an ostrich with its head stuck in the sand is always the most persuasive advocate. :eyes:

And "traditional culture war issues"? "Judicial appointments"? :banghead: Whatever happened to 'good' and 'evil'?

[hatrack]

7. Not that I really gave a shit what the Southern Baptists think, but . . .

Fuck 'em.

You've got all of the colliwobbles associated with "major economic hardship" lined up on one side, and all of empirical reality and the future of life on earth on the other, and they want to fucking DEBATE?

Have a nice raptured, Tim LaHaye-esque Thomas Kinkadeified tiny little life, y'all.