There’s
a certain delicious irony in the global warming industry – the one
that’s always screaming about climate change “deniers” not “believing in
science” – trying to make a religious appeal to Christians.
The Huffington Post on April 5 published “Climate Change Threats To ‘The Least of These’ Compel Evangelical Christians to Act,”
in which writer Lynne Peeples interviewed Katharine Hayhoe, a “leading
climate scientist,.” Hayhoe will be featured in the first episode of a
new Showtime series directed by James Cameron called “Years of Living
Dangerously.” The celebrity-studded documentary series will address “the
entanglement of politics, faith and science that impedes acceptance and
action on climate change.” Basically, it’s a bunch of left-wing
secularists blaming religion for mucking up the climate change movement.
“Christian
values demand we take action,” on the environment, Hayhoe told HuffPo.
“Climate change disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable – the
very people Christians are called to care for and love."
Hayhoe
claims that climate change is obvious. “When I look at the information
we get from the planet, I look at it as God's creation speaking to us,"
Hayhoe said in the documentary. "And in this case, there's no question
that God's creation is telling us that it's running a fever."
The article also cited Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication,
who blamed the relationship between right-wing politics and
evangelicals for the lack of action by Christians on climate change.
Leiserowitz claimed that whatever Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Rush
Limbaugh or Bill O’ Reilly say on the topic will be followed by the
sheep-like evangelicals.
In
the end, Huff Po claims this might just be a generational issue. The
documentary will feature Anna Jane Joyner, the 29 yr.old daughter of
megachurch pastor Rick Joyner, and her struggle to get her father to
accept climate change as real. Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
spokesman Ben Lowe, called climate change a “pro-life” issue.
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