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An Evangelical Backlash Against Environmentalism
An Evangelical Backlash Agai=
nst
Environmentalism Ne=
w York Times
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF December 30, 2010, 6:15 pm<=
/o:p>
Over the last decade, many =
Evangelical
Christians(We have recently discussed in a number of articles th=
at for
all intent and purpose Evangelicals have fallen over the edge of being able=
to call
themselves bible believing Christians)have embraced the(False)doctrine calledcreation
care,which =
uses a
scriptural basis to promote good stewardship of the earth and its resources=
.(The sc=
riptural
basis to promote Christian conservation
of resources is all true. However the embracing of the Radical
Environmental Agenda – pitting the =
CHURCH against all of=
WESTERNIZED INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
and seeking to cast the world into economic ruin, while strengthening the w=
orld-wide
Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Communist ag=
enda for one world government IS NOT.)For
these believers, problems like climate change threaten to greatly intensify
third-world poverty, making actions to reduce global warming emissions an
urgent Christian issue.
“We are convinced that
evangelicals must engage this issue without any further lingering over the
basic reality of the problem or humanity’s responsibility to address
it,” hundreds of evangelical leaders=
declaredin a 2006 s=
tatement
on climate change.
But while a growing number of local and national nonprofit groups have formed to spread the “creat=
ion
care” message, an increasingly fierce backlash against the mingling of
Christianity and environmentalism has emerged from other quarters of the
evangelical movement.
Leading the Christian counterar=
gument
on the environment is the CornwallAlliance, an evan=
gelical
nonprofit that strenuously opposes action on climate change and describes t=
he
environmental movement as a “false
religion” that Christians must avoid at all costs. (=
We do not agree with a n=
umber of
statements made on the video above. In particular that “Evangelical Christians” must wage war agai=
nst the
environmental left’s radical environmental agenda. To simply depart for all churches that give material =
and social
support to this agenda, and to not support businesses and organizations as =
well
as elected officials in local=
, state
and federal governments that support this agenda. This is ALL and we repeat=
ALL
Christians should be involved in. What we find so disturbing is that those =
in this
video promoting a counter environmentalist movement have more passion and are giving more effort to this than obeying the words and commandments of Jesus Chri=
st and
the Apostles concerning the own salvation and walk with God and the great c=
ommission.)
This December, the group released a 12-part educational video series, “Resisting
the Green Dragon,” warning Christians that radical environmentali=
sm
“is striving to put America,
and the world, under its destructive control.”<=
/span>
The video series includes appearances by Tony Perkins, president of the
Family Research Council; Tom Minnery, senior vi=
ce
president of Focus on the Family; and other conservative evangelical Christ=
ian
leaders.
The series takes direct aim at the “creation care” movement,
citing a “well-funded effort to infiltrate churches” by groups =
with
beliefs that are “deadly to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Some of what goes under the name of ‘creation care,’ =
even
in evangelical circles, is infected by the false worldview and theology of
secular and pagan religious environmentalism,” Calvin Beisner,
founder of the Cornwall Alliance, said in a statement accompanying the vide=
os.
In an e-mailed response to questions, Mr. Beisner
said that “creation care” environmentalists and evangelical
politicians, like Senator
Sam Brownback of Kansas and Mike Huckabee, =
the
former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor, who have advocated
for action on climate change, probably did not understand the science b=
ehind
the positions they were advancing, and were parroting alarmist views propag=
ated
by radical environmental groups and the mainstream media.
Mr. Beisner wrote that he had so far not met=
a
single evangelical “who has been able to rehearse the most basic
arguments pro and con regarding the most important physical issue” in=
the
global warming debate, “which is climate sensitivity.”
He added, “That suggests to me that most are embracing conclusions
without understanding the arguments.”
Mr. Beisner, a former professor of theology =
and a
ruling elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, argued that the science is
still unsettled on whether greenhouse gases are warming the climate and that
projections of dangerous human-driven warming in the future are flawed and
unreliable. But an “Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming” =
on
the Cornwall Alliance’s Web site urges all evangelicals to accept that
recent global warming is natural and that mankind is incapable of altering =
the
climate.
“We believe Earth and its ecosystems — created by God’s
intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful provide=
nce
— are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admira=
bly
suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory,” the
group’s declaration
reads. “Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent glob=
al
warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic
history.”
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