maybe they should invest in tofu futures...
Posted on 07/18/2014 7:35:51 PM PDT by markomalley
Worried about global warming, a growing number of churches and other faith groups are divesting their holdings in fossil-fuel companies, which release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“The warning in Scripture that ‘the wages of sin is death’ could not be more literally true than it is in the case of fossil fuels,” said Serene Jones, president of New York’s Union Theological Seminary, whose board voted in June to divest its $108.4 million endowment of holdings in fossil-fuel companies.
“While we realize that our endowment alone will hardly cause the fossil-fuel giants to miss even half a heartbeat,” Jones said, “as a seminary dedicated to social justice, we have a critical call to live out our values in the world. Climate change poses a catastrophic threat, and as stewards of God’s creation, we simply must act.”
Other religious institutions that have recently voted to divest fossil-fuel investments include the World Council of Churches (July 10), the Unitarian Universalists (June 28) and the United Church of Christ (July 2013). Many smaller and regional groups — such as the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Shalom Center and the Oregon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — have also approved fossil-fuel divestment.
And the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) last month voted to study the possibility.
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Fools
These so called “churches” have become nothing more than another tentacle of the DNC.
OUR church gets gas well royalties ... thank you, Jesus
Fine. They should cut off that nasty heating oil and electricity they use also.
Fake, phony, frauds.
Should they be commended for practicing what they believe. Would it not be hypocritical of them not to do so? Should we condemn them for being stupid
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I wonder how the got to their meeting places when they decided this action. Did any of them use a private jet?
What investments and a self respecting liberal make and expect a good return? It sure isn’t wind power.
Does a centipede really have 100 feet?
This brings so many questions to mind.
I’ve said for years that the believers in Global Warming believe in neither God nor Gaia.
The arrogant AlGorites believe that puny little humanity can irrevocably alter the entire planet.
Now, you expect godless atheists to believe that, but any supposedly religious person who believes in AGW might as well slap God in the face and declare him to be a bad engineer.
maybe they should invest in tofu futures...
I suppose they will invest in sodomite temples.
might cause a brief downtick in the energy market ... good buying opportunity
These groups are to Christianity what Britney Spears is to opera.
These groups are to Christianity what Britney Spears is to opera.
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