Evangelical Environmentalists Blahblah Concern Grows Blahblah Churches' Green Activism Blahblah

[hatrack]

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Some religious groups have resisted these calls to action, saying climate change is part of a natural environmental cycle, nothing serious or out of our control, said Peter Hess, director of religious community outreach at the National Center for Science Education in California.

But in recent years, as the world experiences temperature extremes, lengthy droughts and unpredictable storms, many faiths have changed their perspective. Groups such as Young Evangelicals for Climate Action and the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change have urged Christians to examine how environmental crises affect the poor, wildlife and the world's economy.

Still, opponents remain, including the Cornwall Alliance, an evangelical coalition that denies a human contribution to global warming and believes that plans to reduce greenhouse gases will harm the economy.

Despite the controversy, some churches have made climate issues a focus of their mission. At St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton, an Environmental Committee keeps an area of Federal Highway clean, organizes beach clean-ups and urged the church to stop using styrofoam cups. A speaker on March 4 will explore "Sea Level Rise: Can We Keep the Sea Away?" "It's something we can't ignore anymore," committee chair Sue D'Ambrosio said. "There are people in our parish who believe it's caused by man and others who don't, so we make sure not to get political."

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Ed. - emphasis added. Also, that's a commendable stance to take, but it sure isn't preventing the Baptist Megaplexers down the road from speaking out on their views on "climate conspiracies" and other World Nut Daily holy bullshit.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-climate-change-20130224,0,4332199.story

[stuntcat]

1. .

I blame religion for all the worst stuff that happens from now on. When people think they're the species "in his image" that's what excuses driving other species extinct. When people think "heaven" is somewhere else besides Earth then it doesn't matter how we kill the oceans or raze the old forests.
To them it doesn't even matter that we'll jump from 2 billion to 8 billion in less than a century.
And it doesn't matter to them how full of suffering the rest of this century will be, women should still be pressured to make little babies.

I blame religion more than anything else for all the worst things that will happen. No matter what they do from now on, their DOMINION bullshit is killing all the animals' future.

excuse me *spits*

[pscot]

5. It's a delusional system

They're crazy.

[wtmusic]

2. The "religious community outreach at the National Center for Science Education"

makes about as much sense as the the communist community outreach at the Cato Institute.

[CRH]

3. Placing man above all other species, ...

diminishes credibility, and promotes manipulation.

[GliderGuider]

4. The "purpose" of religion has always been to support and explain human actions

Religion is part of the cultural superstructure (the level of our values and beliefs). As such, its role has always been explanatory and supportive of events and actions down at the cultural infrastructure (the level of our interactions with the natural world).

The religious explanation seems to be shifting out of the realm of pure support for world-eating, which has been the human infrastructural program up until now. The fact that their world story is now changing - even a little, reveals just how much we have begun to feel the pinch down in the infrastructure.

[cprise]

6. Some of these people actually thought they were going to take over

...from the secular activist paradigm, saying that it had failed. This started oh, about 3 or 4 years ago and the idea worked its way into progressive outlets like Alternet (IIRC). I think one of the columnists even pronounced climate change as a primarily religious issue, henceforth.

It was in these intervening years when the climate change issue seemed to drop off the face of the Earth (or disappeared up religion's backside).

[glinda]

7. humans are bound for extinction because they are crazy and dysfunctional

and my heart and stomach hurt so bad from all of this today that I feel like I want to puke.