Posted on 07/27/2016 8:06:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
One of the nation’s largest and oldest black churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is warning black people about the dangers of climate change.
The Guardian reported Sunday that the AME church “passed its first resolution in its 200-year history devoted to climate change, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy” at the church’s general conference in Philadelphia.
“We can move away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath our neighbors and families take a healthy one,” the resolution stated according to the Guardian. The resolution also reportedly cited research showing that black children are four times as likely as white children to die from asthma. …
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Why don’t churches stick to saving souls, and doing charity work?????
And given this is an “African” church, certainly they are concerned about the death rate in their community, especially among young black men.
More black men are killed by other black men with guns, than are harmed by global warming.
Black people hurt black people. Just ask the people of Chicago.
No, Democrat puppets in the pulpits hurts Black people.
Nah lead poisoning, especially in Chicago.
This church is as liberal as liberal white episcopal, presbyterian and methodist churches.
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