Posted by
TSB on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:19:55 PM
Just watched Moyers on America on the local public channel. This particular episode focused on conservative evangelicals and their views on the enviornment and global warming.
The main lesson from the episode taught that there are two kinds of conservative christians: the ignorant ones that don't believe in global warming and thus care nothing about the earth, and the ones whose "scales have dropped from their eyes" (direct quote), having accepted global warming.
I'd like to get one thing straight - it's a point that Mr. Moyers seems to fail to realize:
Believe it or not, one can be interested in protecting the environment and not believe that global warming is real.
Crazy, I know.
Further, one can be a conservative christian and be interested in protecting the environment.
Ok, one more point:
If one is a christian and has chosen not to believe in global warming, it may be because that person has done their own reseach and came to their own decision. It's not always because a christian leader has told that person how to think.
But then, I know it's very hard for a liberal to understand that a christian can think for him or herself. After all, christians believe in all that... you know... "bible stuff".