....Who Believe in Global Warming
Evangelical Christians are usually welcomed with open arms on Fox News but
apparently the thought of evangelical Christians believing in global warming is
too much for Fox to take. After all, believing that global warming is a real
thing is heresy, not necessarily against God, but against those other gods, the
radicals in the Bush administration.
A group of evangelical Christians, including 85 evangelical Christian leaders,
have banded together to form a group called the Evangelical Climate Initiative.
The group has produced a television ad urging Christians to become involved in
the issue of global warming and it placed a full page ad in today's New York
Times. Neil Cavuto hosted two of the group's leaders on Your World today
(February 9, 2006), but before they were introduced, he prejudiced his audience
by associating the group with (according to the teachings of Fox) the
nearly-communist New York Times, hedonistic "Hollywood," whacked-out Al Gore,
and a Kennedy, the family that's liberal to the point of insanity.
The segment opened with a clip from the group's television ad. The announcer
said: "As Christians, our faith in Jesus Christ compels us to love our
neighbors and to be stewards of God's creation. The good news is that with
God's help, we can stop global warming for our kids, our world, and our Lord."
Then Cavuto appeared on screen and said: This ad is part of "a massive
advertising campaign" by a group headed "by 85 evangelical Christian leaders
who are sounding the alarm about global warming. They even took out a full page
ad in today's New York Times. It is an issue that has been pretty much owned by
Hollywood and the likes of Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, so can these men of God
do something these folks could not - convince America to get serious about
global warming?"
It gets worse.
Cavuto asked his first question of David Clark, Ph.D. "You are in sync with
Hollywood on this, or much of Hollywood. What makes your call different?"
Clark said, "This is not a partisan issue...it's a humanitarian issue...because
we are called to be keepers, the biblical word is stewards...of this wonderful
Earth...we must speak out when we see it threatened as we do now by global
warming."
Cavuto turned to Paul DeVries, Ph.D., and made the Exxon-Mobil argument against
global warming: "There are people who can respectively [sic] differ here and
say that we have no way of knowing what could be just climate changes built on
nothing more than weather cycles than global warming. Why are you so sure this
is global warming?"
DeVries said, "We may not know all the effects of the different kinds of exhaust
or the way that we're polluting the Earth, but we do have to be careful to
preserve a healthy environment for our children, and our grandchildren, and our
great grandchildren."
Cavuto: "Dr. Clark, there are going to be many who don't buy global warming who
will say, well now, this religious sect of our society has gone kooky with
Hollywood. How would you answer that?"
Clark said we aren't "tree huggers." He said, "We're thoughtful, well informed
people who are expressing a concern that since we believe the Earth was created
by God and given to us to enjoy...we are people who are thoughtful people who
are very concerned about the future." If global warming "is not the effect of
pollution, you could argue that we probably still are wise to err in the
direction of cleaning up the air, just because of health matters, to say
nothing of global warming."
Cavuto, still trying to link the two guests and their group to crazy lefty
liberals said, "Well, Dr. DeVries, would you be willing to team up with Al Gore
or some of the biggest proponents of global warming, those in Hollywood as
well, to push that?"
DeVries said, "We're motivated by the biblical principles and we'd be glad to
work with anybody." He said they met with five Senators yesterday, and that "at
the very core of creation, the very core of nature is God's own presence and to
honor God is to protect his world."
Comment: As you can see, the two guests were persistent and eloquent in making
their point. Unfortunately, Fox's audience likely thought more about other
things, namely their hatred of the "liberal media," of lefty Hollywood, of the
crazed Al Gore, and all-things-vicious about the dread Kennedy family.
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