'Earthy evangelist' changes US climate

[T_i_B]

This is not actually all that suprising. I can remember this being preached in church from when I was in Sunday School.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/23/wcizik23.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/23/ixportal.html

Europe's environmental activists are not renowned for their faith in the power of prayer. But in the run-up to the G8 summit they should put their hands together for the Rev Richard Cizik. One of America's senior evangelical leaders, the lanky Virginian preacher is an unlikely ally of the Greens given the Christian Right's reputation for being in lockstep with the White House.

Mr Cizik is, however, in the vanguard of a striking new movement: evangelicals prodding President George W Bush to take action on global warming. And his stance cannot easily be dismissed as radical nonsense, as the Green cause is traditionally mocked by the Right.

"It is," Mr Cizik concedes, "a head-turner." But, he points out, there are two pressing reasons for evangelicals to lobby for the environment: first, the Bible enjoins man to look after what God created; second, the poor may be the first to suffer from climate change.

"When we die and each one of us meets our maker, He is not going to say, 'How did I create the world?' He is going to say, 'What did you do with what I created?' And why do I know that? Because Genesis 2:15 says we are stewards in charge of creation 'to watch over it carefully'. "How can you 'love your neighbour as yourself' if you are willing to let millions be subject to flooding and droughts caused by greenhouse gases which we, Americans, are responsible for?"

[ClintonTyree]

1. Ann Coulter would set him straight...

according to Annthrax, God gave us this planet to rape and pillage without any thought whatsoever as to it's health and future. God will provide us a new planet I suppose after we've completely ravaged this one. :shrug: There you have it, the Conservative "environmental" policy in a nutshell.
This guy had better get on-board with the Conservative agenda, and pronto!

[Tux]

2. Weird

From what evangelicals I know tell me, if we destroy this planet, god won't fix anything. To them, if we do some damage, we're responsible for it, not god. They are Baptists too.

[Deja Q]

3. These "conservatives" are nothing of the kind, they are

murderous, treasonous, inhumane, hypocritical, two-faced, inhuman scummy animals.

[brainpan]

4. Oh!

Hey, nice pun. Catchy.

I thought the story was going to be about a preacher trying to change America's climate by praying.