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.

[YOY]

1. "Creation Care"???

"What would Jesus drive"...I think he walked or rode a donkey everywhere didn't he?

[China_cat]

2. Actually, he told his followers

to steal the donkey he rode on.

[hfojvt]

5. now that is just libelous

As "God with us" Jesus simply had the knowledge of the location of somebody who had a donkey they would be more than willing to lend to the cause of His ministry.

[China_cat]

7. Riiiiiiiiiiight!

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Oh brother

I guess they missed all the parts in the Bible when Christians are advised to take care of the earth because it's our only planet. So I guess they can go back to boycotting more "Book of Daniel" shows.

[Roland99]

4. Jesus would be rollin' on dubs, dawg!

[McKenzie]

6. once they start floating in water they might change their minds

It'll be too late to do much about it though and I doubt if prayers from the roof of their floating vehicles will result in anything meaningful happening.

I think their approach is based on something called "denial". Or maybe they are hoping the Great Cosmic Hoovering Up will happen before the Ice Caps eventually melt down completely and render many coastal areas uninhabitable.

On a less sarcastic note I have spoken to people in the UK who know about climatology. There is a school of thought that suggests it's already too late to do anything to reverse the damage.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Crud. I was really hoping they'd been sold on the idea of protecting

god's earth. *sigh*