Southern Baptists, Finally, Think About Ecology
March 10, 2008We Southern Baptists have, collectively (though certainly not individually, since a lot of us have been ‘green’ for a good while), finally come to the realization that we are stewards of the earth and charged with its care. I know, you’re thinking, duh. But our leaders have been too bent on gaining and retaining power for themselves to worry with the environment. Till now. And they’ve been forced to it by the wider Evangelical world.
WBIR reports
The group released a declaration yesterday signed by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention among others that says their denomination has been “too timid” on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming. It explains a growing urgency about climate change even within groups that once dismissed claims of an overheating planet as a liberal ruse.
Our leadership has thought everything was a liberal ruse. But that of course because they were busy rusing as fundamentalists so of course they suspected everyone else of rusing too. At least now they are thinking outside the fundamentalist takeover box. Finally.
Praise the Lord for that! Somebody in the SBC circle is thinking rightly.
Among many Southern Baptists I know, ecology is getting the last beer bottle in the garbage can as you leave your date’s home for a few hours sleep before Sunday morning services.
But we Southern Baptists know this is really all about the Pope new sins list. Now we’re both ecologically-minded, what keeps us from reunification?
Ah you know some high class ones. All the boozing SBC’ers I know drink out of cans and crawl out of trailers instead of homes. But your point is well taken.