Posted on 10/15/2005 3:16:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Science and religion may differ on how we got here, but increasingly there is little disagreement on where we are headed if we don't begin to address the causes of climate change. Scientists have long warned of the dangers of global warming attributed to our profligate use of fossil fuels. Now, one of the nation's most influential religious groups is delivering the same message, if based on an alternative standard of proof.
"I had a conversion experience on the climate issue not unlike my conversion to Christ," Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals, told the environmental magazine Grist. "I was at a conference in Oxford where Sir John Houghton, an evangelical scientist, was presenting evidence of shrinking ice caps, temperatures tracked for millennia through ice-core data, increasing hurricane intensity, drought patterns, and so on. I realized all at once, with sudden awe, that climate change is a phenomenon of truly biblical proportions."
The 30-million-member association, which Cizik says is one of the strongest voices in the Republican Party, isn't just talking about global warming. It is taking action. Calling the doctrine "creation care," the association is conducting a scripture-based campaign to convince its members that they are "commissioned by God the Almighty to be stewards of the earth."
Cizik doesn't rule out formal collaboration with secular environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. And the association is preparing a position paper on global warming policy.
For his part, Cizik is practicing what he preaches. "We sold our RV, which got about five miles per gallon, and bought a Prius, which gets about 10 times that," he told Grist. "I oughta get a commission from Toyota for the number of people I've converted to the Prius."
Soon, there will be no haven for those who continue to ignore the environmental challenges ahead.
Well, at least he admits to one thing in a backhanded way. Both conversions are based on faith.
Micheal Crichton has a great speech on this very subject on his website
The left has made "smoke and mirror" arguments into a fine science.
I imagine if someone is destroying a piece of the Earth for personal profit, he's more than likely breaking one or more of the Ten Commandments and will be dealt with on those "violations."
Micheal Crichton's book "State of Fear" was excellent.
Enviromentalism was created by Commies to destroy Capitalism. That is a fact.
Enviromentalism was created by Commies to destroy Capitalism. That is a fact.
I gave my copy to my son's fiancee, a politically clueless, but very sweet person. She used to get mad when I mocked the environmental mental midgets who actually buy into their pablum
She no longer defends them. She is being turned slowly
His speech on his website on this subject is excellent.
it is truly revealing to study the original doctrines of communists. you are very correct, environmentalism was indeed one of their spearheads. since you seem to know about this, i wont bore you with any other spearheads they created to harm basically the usa. actually, just listen to one of hillarys speeches and you have the whole communist enchilada right there in good english.
People who think they can control or even influence the climate are displaying human arrogance, a lot like a flea thinking about attacking an elephant. Maybe science is today's Tower of Babel.
Global warming is pork for scientists. Now I see the Evangelicals are trying to milk it also.
"Shouldn't they be more concerned for men's souls?"
They should. This is one more example of the "red herring"; distraction from real issues by false issues.
Another Freeper's intelligence can never bore me. Feel free to discuss it more. I just stated the simple fact but you stated the fact more eloquently. God bless.
Ban the sun.
How's Alpha Centori doing? Maybe we could head over there.
Just out of curiousity, google "mass of the solar system," and you will discover stuff like this:
That's right, all the rest of the mass of the solar system- us, inner planets, gas giants that are almost big enough to be stars, the asteroid belt, the cosmic dust- is .2%
That tells me the Sun is the master controller... as I suspected nearly 40 years ago upon learning this obscure but telling fact.
They don't care for Paradise in the next life - they just want make this life one, and they will fail miserably!
Yes we are stewards of our God-given environment. Yes there is global warming. But global warming is the result of the Sun being hotter at this time, and nothing else. Just as Mars is experiencing global warming, so is the Earth. What do they have in common? Ans. the Sun.
We may very well be on the edge of a new ice age. This nonsense about green house gases is nothing more than paganism and liberal self guilt. Why sacrifice maidens to the earth god when developed nations can sacrifice their economies? Fools all!
The only time leftists mention God or the Bible is to advance their socialist/Marxist agenda.
Well there WILL be global warming... "and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat"
I'd agree, that take on the verse certainly does not look right in context. "Those that destroy the earth" seems to be talking about the forces of evil in the world as a whole.
I'd drive a tank if they'd let me.
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