The Church of Global Warming

Since global warming is a total political hoax designed to indoctrinate the hopelessly naive, I always considered the movement behind it a fringe religious cult of sorts.

Well, now we have a major religious denomination adopting it as a pet cause, saying they have a biblical duty to stop the scam.

Instead of inculcating this nonsense into the churchgoers, how about pointing out the faults to this pseudo-science?

In a major shift, a group of Southern Baptist leaders said their denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming.

The declaration, signed by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention among others and released Monday, shows a growing urgency about climate change even within groups that once dismissed claims of an overheating planet as a liberal ruse. The conservative denomination has 16.3 million members and is the largest Protestant group in the U.S.

The signers of "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" acknowledged that not all Christians accept the science behind global warming. They said they do not expect fellow believers to back any proposed solutions that would violate Scripture, such as advocating population control through abortion.

However, the leaders said that current evidence of global warming is "substantial," and that the threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge about whether, or how much, people contribute to the trend.

"We believe our current denominational resolutions and engagement with these issues have often been too timid," according to the statement. "Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed. We can do better."

Frankly, buying into the hoax is reckless and ill-informed.

In my opinion, such political nonsense has no place in the church.