Baptists warn environmental politics could divide evangelicals

[truthpusher]

http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060715/APN/607150638

Baptists warn environmental politics could divide evangelicals

By ROSE FRENCH
Associated Press Writer

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The resolution urges Southern Baptists to be stewards of the environment, but not to align with "extreme environmental groups" or support solutions based on "questionable science" that could hurt the economy.

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"There are a number of other more pressing moral and cultural issues than mankind's impact on the environment that need to be addressed by evangelicals, namely that nearly 4,000 pre-born babies are being aborted every day in America," said Kenyn Cureton, vice president for Southern Baptist Convention relations.

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"Some in our culture have completely rejected God the Father in favor of deifying 'Mother Earth,'" and "made environmentalism into a neo-pagan religion," the resolution states.

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"I think there's concern among Southern Baptists regarding global warming, pollution, gas issues related to fossil fuel," he said. "But I think it's also a concern of right-of-center Southern Baptists who don't want to identify the denomination with the deifying of Mother Earth, what seems to them to be a kind of new age approach to the environment."

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Robert Parham, head of Nashville's Baptist Center for Ethics, a critic of Southern Baptist Convention leadership, said the resolution's language mimics the Bush administration's environmental policies.

The president has rejected mandatory controls on carbon dioxide, the chief gas blamed for trapping heat in the atmosphere like a greenhouse, and has kept the country out of the Kyoto international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases, saying the pact would harm the U.S. economy.

"They're trying to say there's bad science, that the scientific community is divided on global warming, when it's not," Parham said. "The Bible is a profoundly green book. From the earliest pages we see we have a moral imperative to care for the Earth."

link: http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060715/APN/607150638

[liberal N proud]

1. "environmental politics could divide evangelicals" - REALLY?

Can we only hope for such things?

[megatherium]

2. The Southern Baptists and like-minded evangelicals are going to find out

and soon that their subservience to the Republican party is going to be a huge disaster for them. My mother used to go to an evangelical megachurch, and as she became more and more angry at all the awful things that the Republicans are doing or allowing to happen, she saw how much that church was bound to that stuff. She now goes to an Episcopal church.

[TalkingDog]

3. Yeah, Hollywood had EVERYTHING to do with Al Gore's movie

Jackasses.

WhiteMaleSkyGodDeathCultRaptureFreaks!



My favorite Future Famous Dead Artist: KarenParker

[cantstandbush]

4. Something needs to divide them. Reality can't. nt

[hatrack]

5. Science isn't enough - only Cat 6 Hurricanes will make the point

And by the time the shock wave makes it through skulls of this density, it'll be too late for any meaningful amelioration.

So, I say whoever wrote this pile of cat logs, and whoever endorses it can go pound sand. We don't have time to do the God Hokey-Pokey any longer waiting for these clowns to come around.

[drm604]

6. "questionable science"

Meaning real valid science that they question. :eyes:

[bperci108]

7. Hmmmmm.....

...I wonder if the more sane adherents of this group have been leaving.


Perhaps the collection plate has been a bit light?

Those radical right economic policies may be coming home to roost.

Or maybe (I hope) the sincere believers are waking up to the fact that Jesus was the archetypal Liberal.