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.
6 comments:
Hey, Jesus is gonna cum before the earth is screwed, so why should they care?
I'm saddened to read this, because evangelicals helped to scuttle the ANWR sneak attack last winter.
anne johnson is right. I just finished writing about the Rapturists. Why bother taking care of the earth when you are sitting in your nightie, waiting to be sucked up into God's lap?
Can we please add this 'brand of Christianity,' to the DSM-IV? Really, they are quite literally insane. It really all boils down to infantile selfishness; a collective personality disorder if you will.
Heh. One of the best bits in "Big Love" was when the mother explained to her daughter that she too had run up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt after the prophet had assured her that the world was going to end. She figured, what the heck, she'd never have to pay the money back.
Rhetorical questions to the SBC fool: Do you shit in your living room? Should we eat all of our seed crops now so we have nothing to grow next season?
That's all the environmentalist movement is: let's not be stupid.
But the SBC response? Let's continue to be stupid and self-destructive so we can concentrate on saving theoretical babies so they can grow up and live in the world that we--oh whups, sorry!
Why do they believe this? Because some theoretical hippy people worship the environment by trying to save it. Hrm. Kinda like... All people like ice cream, therefore satansists like ice cream. Satanists are bad, ergo I must hate ice cream.
You should try living in a sea of these people, Hecate. D/FW is full of them.....help me.
Post a Comment