(by Tim) If you've listened to Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals, you know he speaks in heavily religious terms of the co-belligerency he shares with Al Gore warring against the demons of carbon emissions. He liberally sprinkles his advocacy with testimonies of his "conversion" to the green crusade and he calls others to join him worshiping at this altar. As Cizik put it himself in his op-ed piece in the Washington Post on Earth Day this year:
Thus, our family will worship together at National Cathedral in Washington with other environmental, scientific, and faith leaders and then enjoy the outdoors together. It's all part of a faith commitment we've made to do everything in our power to preserve this precious gift the Creator has given us.
If any doubt remained concerning the religious zeal of these crusaders...
consider that this London Times article titled, "Priest offers festival-goers the chance to confess their green sins," carries the byline, "Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of the Times."
Interested in the "sins" they confess? Well, for starters, it turns out they lie about how much they recycle. But of course, the failure to recycle is the sin--not lying about it. An old sage observed that when we remove all the big laws they're replaced with an infinite number of little ones.
Again, I wish my denomination would pull the plug on the NAE. It's so moribund in its prophetic witness. Its so-called "prophet" has such honor in his own town.
(Thanks, David.)
