Good morning everybody! What an amazing website this is, where a posting can start at midnight and well-informed, intelligent people can argue all night and still not come up with a consensus (except that NOBODY ever heard of this guy until the MSM made him a overnight nutcase celebrity).
Maybe I need a little more caffeine here but it looks to me like the important part of this story is that a large part of the evangelical movement is apparently getting cozy with environmentalist socialist scum who are guaranteed to lead us all straight to H*** or at least into a new dark age.
I never heard of Haggard either, but there's a lot of meat in the article.
For a Frightmare, read the Earth Charter at this link:
http://www.earthcharterusa.org/earth_charter.html
It starts out fairly benign, and becomes your worst commie nightmare by the end. Look for its plans for the military. Try a Google search of Earth Charter, or Earth Charter + Gorbachev.
This document was handed to my college student daughter in political science class. Earth Charter backers plan to peddle it through schools and churches.
Tonight I was belatedly reading the election week edition of Newsweek, "The Politics of Jesus" (Sex vs. Social Justice: Evangelicals at a Crossroads). If I can make the leap that Newsweek runs things election week that will help liberals, it seems clear that liberals are trying to triangulate religion any way they can. An article, "A New Social Gospel," by former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, speaks of the global focus of the new evangelicalism, and its solidarity with the poor and pursuit of the common good.
My Methodist congregation, with hopes of expanding its membership, went through Rick Warren's Purpose Driven program. The sermons changed from Biblically based lessons to social justice themes. Socially relevant "hymns" are being substituted for scripture-based hymnal songs. Saturday night, the church held a viewing of "An Inconvenient Truth," because as Christians we shouldn't ruin our earth (or something). Membership, by the way, is down by about 25%.
We're being co-opted, folks. Christians are an obvious target because of their influence in the 2000 and 2004 outcomes. Say the right buzzwords and a few trusting souls will listen, or get mad and stay home. Hardly matters which.