Lutheran (ELCA) Ping!
Posted on 12/13/2007 12:48:55 PM PST by RobinOfKingston
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
December 13, 2007
ELCA Advocacy Offices Purchase Carbon Offset Credits 07-205-AL
WASHINGTON (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Washington Office, ELCA Corporate Social Responsibility, Pittsburgh, and Lutheran Office for World Community, New York, have purchased carbon offset credits to mitigate their carbon emissions accumulated through air travel.
"Our offices have been working to reduce our carbon footprints by turning off lights and power strips when we're not in our offices, for example. But short of turning off all electricity and ceasing to travel, it's very difficult to eliminate your carbon emissions entirely," said Mary Minette, ELCA director for environmental education and advocacy.
"Since the advocacy staff travels extensively, we've purchased offset credits to balance those carbon emissions. The credits will go toward renewable energy projects, thus reducing the overall amount of power generated by burning fossil fuels," said Minette.
The specific projects funded by the carbon offsets purchased by the advocacy offices will support the use of anaerobic digesters, machines that dramatically reduce the amount of methane that escapes into the atmosphere while simultaneously generating renewable energy for the dairy farms that run them. Methane, like carbon dioxide, is a major contributor to global warming.
To determine the amount of the offices' carbon emissions that needed to be offset, Minette surveyed the staff about their air travel. She used that information with a carbon emissions calculator on the Internet and then purchased the appropriate amount of credits needed to compensate for the travel.
Minette hopes this move by the advocacy office will start a trend in the ELCA. "Imagine the amount of carbon emissions we'd save if the entire churchwide organization, every synod office, and every congregation were to reduce their energy use and budget for the purchase of offset credits for the remaining energy consumption," she said.
"Our social statement, 'Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope and Justice,' commits us as individuals, as a worship community, and as a public church, to address the threat of global warming. I encourage all Lutherans to calculate their carbon footprints, reduce their energy consumption, and purchase carbon offset credits where appropriate," Minette said. - - - Information about global warming is at http://www.ELCA.org/advocacy/environment/globalwarming.html on the ELCA Web site.
For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog
This should be considered a breach of fiduciary responsibility.
Now stop exhaling.
I left the ELCA when I thought they had gone off the deep end. I see now that they really truly sincerely have gone off the deep end.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a bunch of clowns!
You’ve got to be kidding! Well I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
indulgences are still alive and well..................
If you religion happens to be Gaea-anity.
BTW, I'm thinking that being on the selling side of the carbon credits business would be a right cushy racket.
1 Timothy 4:1 - 3 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”
1 Timothy 6:20 - 21 “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.”
2 Timothy 3:1 - 9 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.”
2 Peter 2:1 - 3 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
1 John 2:15 - 19 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
Revelation 22:20 - 21 “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”
mais oui, bien sur!
You caused me to hurt myself - had to use Google language tools to translate :-)
You are too kind. We agree the Word rules.
I’m going to run my three AC’s all night for the rest of the week just to off-set their off-sets.
What utter foolishness, this earth-worship nonsense.
Defund idiocy!
Good plan. I think I’ll open my windows. It’s supposed to be -2 tonight.
lol I thought everyone knew a LITTLE French. After all Sesame Street is multilingual now.
Our offerings at work?
“indulgences are still alive and well..................”
And the ELCA is buying. AND worshipping at the throne of His Wooden-ness, The Grand Gorecle, algore, and his church of Global Warmology. Martin Luther must be spinning in his grave!
Yep. And the parallels are both perverse and mind boggling, all at the same time...
Carbon "Offsets" = buying indulgences from Pope Algore/Church of Eco-Theocracy = superstitious practices of the pre-Reformation medieval church!
:-I
You’ve said it well, Sister! :)
The ELCA is no longer a religious organization. It is nothing but an organ for the World Council of Churches, which is a world socialist movement.
What we failed to notice is that when they initially went off the deep end, they were carrying a backhoe!
I am glad you are joining the “green” movement within ELCA. :^)
I think I'll eat a big plate of refried beans. And some fried eggs. And broccoli. And wash it all down with a lot of beer.
Now what do ELCA members do to MITIGATE the ideological pollution being spewed by the denomination’s “advocacy” offices?
Is Gore on the receiving end of this scam?
I’d say people are giving a bit too much in the offerings if this is how their going to use their funds.
“Since the advocacy staff travels extensively, we’ve purchased offset credits to balance those carbon emissions.”
Here’s a simpler solution: quit traveling, then you won’t need to purchase offsets, a double whammy savings!
>>Carbon “Offsets” = buying indulgences from Pope Algore/Church of Eco-Theocracy = superstitious practices of the pre-Reformation medieval church!<<
Can I write up and nail 95 Theses to Algore’s head?
Since it appears to be as wooden as Wittenberg's famous door, why not?
;)
I don’t think they’ll let you do that unless you use those push pins.
ping to #32
LOL! Yes, they're much more environmentally friendly/easy to recycle ;)
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