I've Just About Had It With These People

Via Witchvox comes an interesting story from the Lexington Herald-Leader concerning the Southern Baptists' worry that enivronmental issues may -- I am not making this up -- "divide evangelical Christians and distract them from their higher calling to spread the gospel." Yeah, I've noted how disinterested they've become in political issues that distract them from the "higher calling of spreading the gospel." You know, the gospel that says that reproductive choice is the worst thing that could possible happen and that gay marriage will destroy the world. You know how it says that in the gospel, right?

But apparently everything changes when some evangelicals begin to worry about the environment: "There are a number of other more pressing moral and cultural issues than mankind's impact on the environment that need to be addressed by evangelicals, namely that nearly 4,000 pre-born babies are being aborted every day in America," said Kenyn Cureton, vice president for Southern Baptist Convention relations.

And, of course, there's their new-found terror of Paganism, as more thoroughly documented by Jason Pitzl-Waters at The Wild Hunt:

""Some in our culture have completely rejected God the Father in favor of deifying 'Mother Earth,'" and "made environmentalism into a neo-pagan religion," the resolution states.

The Rev. Bill Leonard, the Wake Forest Divinity School dean who has written extensively on Southern Baptists, said the denomination is wary of the environmental movement.

"I think there's concern among Southern Baptists regarding global warming, pollution, gas issues related to fossil fuel," he said. "But I think it's also a concern of right-of-center Southern Baptists who don't want to identify the denomination with the deifying of Mother Earth, what seems to them to be a kind of new age approach to the environment."

So, they've come out with a resolution that, while allowing modest concern for the environment, instructs evangelicans not to align with ""extreme environmental groups" or support solutions based on "questionable science" that could hurt the economy."

Yep. Continued hatred for reproductive choice, Mother Earth, and Pagans and continued concern for "the economy." I remember exactly where that shows up in the gospels.

Wait, no I don't. Look, Southern Baptists, could you at least be honest? You're no more concerned with the gospels that I am. You want to hate on women and Pagans and Mother Earth and you believe corpratist bullshit that taking care of the environment will hurt the economy. Gospels, my sweet round ass.