Lutheran (ELCA) Ping!
Glory to the King of kings!
Posted on 11/24/2010 4:23:35 PM PST by rhema
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) joined 56 denominations and faith-based organizations in calling on the U.S. Senate to leave intact the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, including ozone emissions.
The denominations and faith-based organizations released a joint letter to the Senate Nov. 23 in which they stated they "are called to protect and serve God's great creation and work for justice for all of God's people."
"We believe that the United States must take all appropriate and available actions to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. We therefore urge you to oppose any efforts to undermine the authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions," according to the letter. In particular, the religious groups noted challenges to the Clean Air Act from U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., who has proposed delaying regulation of greenhouse gases by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"We urge you to protect the Clean Air Act and allow the Environmental Protection Agency to use the full strength of the law to ensure that God's creation and God's children remain healthy," the letter stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at elca.org ...
The 56 "religious groups" have names like
California Council of Churches
California Council of Churches IMPACT
Connecticut's Interfaith Power and Light, a project of Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
Earth Ministry
Eco-Justice Ministries
Ecumenical Minstries of Oregon's Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns
The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
They compliment their screwed up understanding of biblical Christianity with an equally screwed up understanding of science.
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National council of churches ecojustice
Christians need to talk to their ministers about this and find another church if theirs is buying this crap.
Blasphemy!
Once there was a time when the intellectual cream of the Nation became pastors, at schools like Yale and Harvard. Now, preachers are harvested in flocks from matchbook-cover seminaries where they are taught little more than to make sure they never refer to God Almighty as "He." Only the intellectually obtuse would even deign to look into it.
In the case of the ELCA, there are well-trained men of intellect and faith but they have been systematically removed from any position allowing them a voice in corporate affairs. In their place we are offered slobbering ignoramuses like this Hanson fool and his underlings.
Once there was a time when the intellectual cream of the Nation became pastors, at schools like Yale and Harvard. Now, preachers are harvested in flocks from matchbook-cover seminaries where they are taught little more than to make sure they never refer to God Almighty as "He." Only the intellectually obtuse would even deign to look into it.
In the case of the ELCA, there are well-trained men of intellect and faith but they have been systematically removed from any position allowing them a voice in corporate affairs. In their place we are offered slobbering ignoramuses like this Hanson fool and his underlings.
One of the signers: “Green Faith”.
Cough, cough.
This looks like a “who’s who” list of radical Marxist front-groups, aka “Liars for Jesus” and “Liars for Science”:
http://nccecojustice.org/climate/CAA%20Rockefeller%20letter.pdf
Church of the Brethren
Church World Service
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
The Episcopal Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Franciscan Action Network
Interfaith Power and Light
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
National Council of Churches USA
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office
Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Public Witness
The Missionary Oblates, Justice Peace/Integrity of Creation Office
Union for Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
The United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society
United Methodist Women
State and Regional Groups
Arizona Interfaith Power and Light
California Council of Churches
California Council of Churches IMPACT
Connecticut’s Interfaith Power and Light, a project of Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
Earth Ministry
Eco-Justice Ministries
Ecumenical Minstries of Oregon’s Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns
The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Faith in Place
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light
Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light
GreenFaith
Illinois Interfaith Power & Light
Iowa Interfaith Power and Light
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light
Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota
Maine Council of Churches
Maine Interfaith Power and Light
Michigan Interfaith Power and Light
Minnesota Council of Churches
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light
North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Presbyterians for Earth Care
Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light
Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light
Texas Impact
Virginia Interfaith Center
Virginia Interfaith Power and Light
Voices for Earth Justice (MI)
Washington Association of Churches
Washington Interfaith Power and Light
Wisconsin Council of Churches
Wisconsin Interfaith Power and Light
bttt
This is a good example of what happens among liberal denominations. They substitute political activism for theology. Since they have trashed the Scriptures and traditional Christianity, they have to have some way of justifying their existence. They adopt the liberal secular agenda and become a political organization. These liberal denominations are so screwed up that they don’t even know how screwed up they are. It is the blind leading the blind.
They may very well believe themselves to be quite Progressive, but they are doing nothing more than proving that they've not succeeded in assimilating to American society.
Time to give Tallin, Stockholm, Berlin, Helsinki, Oslo and Copenhagen a call to prepare them for some returned hold baggage
Green plant life needs CO2 to thrive. Its all balanced by design.
Do these people not understand God has planned out the ecosystem?
What? No separation of church and state?
Glory to the King of kings!
Wow...
Interfaith Power and Light?
heh, heh, heh
As far as population my church is in the top 10 in the country and I have influence.
My goal is to get this top 10 church to leave the ELCA in Chicagoland home of Bishop Hanson!!!
These churches just took a vote Nov. 21, and these churches will vote in November or December.
I thought we had strict separation of Church and State /S
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