Once again, the leaders of Christianity’s antediluvian wing phone heaven to find out which burning issues of the day Jesus deems most important. Jesus, bored, blows them off by telling them what they want to hear: take another stupid pill and call Me in the morning:
Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have sent a letter urging the National Association of Evangelicals to force its policy director in Washington to stop speaking out on global warming.
The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association’s vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical movement from what they deem more important issues, like abortion and homosexuality.
These guys never get their priorities straight. The big issue is who hid those dinosaur bones all over the place. God was behind it, sure. But who did the actual pick and shovel work?
Actually it was a really (I almost said diabolically) clever sorting device. For the first few thousands of years everybody just thought they were really big cow bones and they all believed in Jehovah so off they went to heaven if they sucked up to him enough. But then science came along disguised as an apple and pretty soon all these smartasses started asking smartass questions and if they figured these things were older than they really were, then you could sort them out easily, the wiseasses from the dummies, and shunt the wiseasses straight to the flaming lake without bothering St. Pete. Big cow bones? You're cool. Go with God, he wants to hang with you. Brontosaurus? Burn,baby, burn.
Posted by: Aitch Jay on March 3, 2007 2:43 PMWhy don't these sensitive evangelical types look at the value of each precious human life through a mathematical lens? First of all, measure lives that undisputably exist--the post-born. Run the numbers on how many of these lives will be cut short by climate and pollution-related problems. Asthma, tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis, drought, fertile land made barren by higher temperatures, etc., etc. Once you've done all you can to take care of the post-born, then you can start worrying about the unborn.
Homosexuality of course is an entirely different issue, and not really worth talking about at all, at least from the moral or ethical standpoint. Hey, it all comes down to friction and how an individual chooses to produce that friction is just a matter of taste. It's not good or evil, or red or blue, or wide or tall, or heavy or light.
We make a giant mistake when we conflate ethics/morality with religion. Sometimes the two coincide, sometimes they don't. But they are two different things. If your Bible tells you not to eat pork, that doesn't mean eating pork is evil. It's just evil to you, so eat the other white meat and leave the rest of us alone.
Posted by: Furber on March 3, 2007 6:56 PMHow can you expect conservative Christian groups to stand in the way of a new biblical FLOOD?
It can only be meant to happen by HIM, after all HE created us - or too many of us - with limited brains.