remember this? http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=360963

When the national association of evangelicals said they were going to make global warming a big part of their agenda in their health of the nation report (http://www.dirtygreek.org/outgoinglink.php?url=http://www.nae.net/images/civic_responsibility2.pdf)?


it would appear that the likes of James Dobson of Focus on the Family think that "Bible-believing evangelicals . . . disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue." Therefore, the National Association of Evangelicans will NOT be dealing with global warming. SURPRISE! (http://www.dirtygreek.org/outgoinglink.php?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102132.html)

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"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."

2/3/2006 10:11:05 AM

by the way, from the original thread on evangelicals and global warming

excoriator:

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"this is seriously old news. evangelicals have been concerned about the environment for years now, although they also feel that abortion and gay suppression take precedence.... you're falling into the typical liberal elitist habit of stereotyping people who are different than you. "

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"i.e. i don't wanna see you posting a thread in the future expressing shock - shock! that evangelicals hold humanitarian beliefs"

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"liberals and the mainstream media are consistently confounded when they realize that evangelicals actually have very complex and nuanced political beliefs - and are not actually simple sheep led blindly by rush and fallwell"

2/3/2006 10:16:00 AM

i think we should listen to everybody except scientists

2/3/2006 10:21:36 AM

DG, don't confuse them with the facts.

2/3/2006 10:37:11 AM

^^ I agree. More accurately, write down whatever you hear from scientists but run it by an engineer before you buy into it. If the engineer does not approve, shoot the scientist to stop him from spouting the nonsense and confusing the issue.

[Edited on February 3, 2006 at 10:52 AM. Reason : ^]

2/3/2006 10:52:47 AM

screw that even

lets listen only to economists

2/3/2006 11:00:24 AM

ENGINEERS ARE SO SMART!

2/3/2006 12:44:26 PM

ya, whenever I get stuck in my research I go ask an engineer because they know everything.

2/4/2006 1:36:02 PM

we're so fucked

how people think that we can dump this amount of CO2 into the atmosphere and not have something happen is beyond me

2/4/2006 3:09:04 PM

If you think it is too much then go ahead and stop breathing.

2/4/2006 4:33:46 PM

^^the rapture.

plenty of oxygen in heaven.

2/4/2006 4:37:25 PM

Quote :

"Evangelicals Launch Fight Against Climate Change POSTED: 4:44 pm EST February 8, 2006 UPDATED: 5:51 pm EST February 8, 2006 WASHINGTON -- In an effort to reduce global warming, 86 evangelical Christian leaders are calling for federal action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Signers of the Evangelical Climate Initiative include the Rev. Rick Warren, Wheaton College President Duane Litfin, and leaders of World Vision and the Salvation Army. All maintain that humans cause global warming and can help stop it, and that doing so is a way to care for God's creation and save the world's poor from an increase in natural disasters. Other evangelical leaders refused to join the campaign, including Southern Baptist leader Richard Land, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson and the Rev. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries. They've signed a separate letter that says Christians "disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue.""

http://www.wral.com/family/6845471/detail.html

2/8/2006 7:43:34 PM

James Dobson is an evangelical leader, but he's much more of a political leader than the classic evangelical.

his position isn't surprising and could easily be anticipated.

2/8/2006 7:51:15 PM

Oh wow.

I could shove your face in a batch of shit and you'd argue that you were willingly eating chocolate.

2/9/2006 5:18:13 PM

This is really sad. The Church is blatantly bending over for big business.

2/9/2006 5:21:14 PM

DURKA DURRR

THE CHURCH IS BIG BUSINESS.

2/9/2006 5:22:34 PM

From the article:

[QUOTE]Other evangelical leaders refused to join the campaign, including Southern Baptist leader Richard Land, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson and the Rev. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries.

They've signed a separate letter that says Christians "disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue."[/QUOTE]

Newsflash church leaders, Christians disagree about most issues.

2/9/2006 6:53:21 PM

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""Bible-believing evangelicals . . . disagree about the cause, severity and solutions to the global warming issue.""

Maybe they all attended Micheal Crichton's talk about Complexity Theory

2/9/2006 7:35:57 PM

^nice article, I particularly enjoyed,

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"We’re like the blonde who returned the scarf because it was too tight. We don’t get it."

2/9/2006 7:58:10 PM

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"Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson"

oh ya... he's not partisan at all... that stint in prison from serving in the nixon admin cured him of all his political inclinations

2/9/2006 8:08:40 PM

^^^ He testified before congress! Imagine that. Another writer of fiction setting foot in this nations government...

2/9/2006 9:04:04 PM

Not saying that everything he says is golden, but he's no dummy, either

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"He attended Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude in anthropology. He went on to teach anthropology at Cambridge in England, later returning to Massachusetts to gain an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. [1]"

[Edited on February 9, 2006 at 10:50 PM. Reason : m]

2/9/2006 10:50:02 PM