Saturday, February 11, 2006
A Little More on Evangelicals And Global Warming
It's worse than I thought. I said that the recent signing of a statement on global warming by 86 evangelical leaders was going to be a problem, turns out I was optimisitic in the "going to be part." A few hours after I put up that post, I got a press release from something called the Institute for Religion and Democracy. Turns out the 86 signers were a splinter group.
The National Association of Evangelicals, which has gone farther on the issue than I am comfortable with, refused to sign the document in question. So while Warren did sign it, guys like Colson and Dobson had no part of it.
And so, the lines are being drawn even before the ink is dry. And somehow a dispute over something like this does not stirke me as what God intended for His church.
Evangelical Outpost had some interesting comments on the issue as well, and while I agree with everything Joe says, I think he misses the primary point.
This just is not stuff the church is supposed to be about - Christians yes, the church no.
Related Tags: global warming, Evangelicals, Dobson, Colson, NAE
The National Association of Evangelicals, which has gone farther on the issue than I am comfortable with, refused to sign the document in question. So while Warren did sign it, guys like Colson and Dobson had no part of it.
And so, the lines are being drawn even before the ink is dry. And somehow a dispute over something like this does not stirke me as what God intended for His church.
Evangelical Outpost had some interesting comments on the issue as well, and while I agree with everything Joe says, I think he misses the primary point.
This just is not stuff the church is supposed to be about - Christians yes, the church no.
Related Tags: global warming, Evangelicals, Dobson, Colson, NAE
