31% - White Evangelicals Reject Global Warming
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Mon, September 28, 2009
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About half (48%) of white mainline Protestants believe the earth is warming as the result of human activity -- roughly the same proportion as among all Americans (47%) -- but only a third of white evangelical Protestants (34%) share that belief. In fact, white evangelical Protestants are the most likely to say there is no solid evidence that global warming is occurring (31%). While only 39% of black Protestants say global warming is a result of human activity, they are, however, the least likely of the religions studied to deny global warming (15%). The unaffiliated (58%) are the most likely to say there is solid evidence the earth is warming because of human activity.
QUESTION: Just for fun... what do YOU think about global warming? For real; or made-up?
Todd
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Stan on Tue, September 29, 2009
Are all of you Christians? I don’t want to sound accusatory - I know we all have a “need” to believe something. I’d like to suggest that we need to hold this thing in tension. If you “believe” either way, you are committing to it being true of false. Are you that convinced that if you stood before the Lord at the judgement that you would tell Him, with the same degree of certainty that you do now, not only what position you personally believe, but also what you have been telling others is the “truth.” If this is so important to “believe,” why? No doubt, as Baker responds to Sam, that somewhere our general responsibility to steward the earth does meet reality somewhere because many decisions are being made by those who are convinced one way or the other, so we citizens need to weigh in somewhere, because the rubber meets the road somewhere. But my weighing in does not pre-require that I stand on one position or the other as being true, because I have higher truths to stand on, and being wrong on this issue undermines my credibility on the truths I do need to stand on.
Proverbs 18:17 is one of many of my favorites: “The first to present his case seems right, until someone steps forward to question him.” And John 7:14 “do not judge by mere appearances, but when you judge, make a right judgement.”
Many issues like this are subject to question. We need to be careful about what we are dogmatic about, and be ready to answer to the living God. I can stand as strongly for reducing carbon emissions as anyone else even if I may not be willing to declare global warming is true - and visa versa. I think we need to be more careful in differentiating between having much evidence for/against, and believing it to be true and then testifying to others about it. To God there is such a thing as a false testimony.
Rick on Mon, October 05, 2009
Peter says: “...there isn�t any doubt that the planet is on a warming trend. It is a scientific fact…It is undeniable. It might not be happening where you live, but it is undeniable in places like Alaska.”
Uh…if it might not be happening in all places, it’s NOT “global” warming. It’s regional climate change. And it is NOT happening everywhere as your caveat indicates…so I agree with you there. But the “global” aspect of these arguments is just silly.
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Peter says: “The planet is changing, for sure.”
So what? It’s a dynamic world that God created and it’s always been changing in both dramatic and less dramatic ways. Creation is amazing and complex and I can hardly accept that we must entertain such faulty and hyperbolic conclusions simply because the earth is doing what it has always done. Nothing new to see here.
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