Christianity Today<\/em><\/a> reports that James Dobson is leading a charge to remove Rev. Richard Cizik from the National Association of Evangelicals \u2014 he\u2019s VP \u2014 because of his relentless concern with global warming. What is the logic here? Is it\u2026
\nThat Cizik is for environmental concerns about global warming.
\nLiberal Democrats are concerned with global warming.
\nTherefore Cizik is a liberal?
\nOr is Cizik\u2019s concern inconsistent with something biblical?
\nThe CT article states that the signatories asking for Cizik\u2019s removal are not members of the NAE. Here\u2019s something from the CT article: \u201cThe letter comes as some leading conservative Christians have been vocal in their criticisms and doubts about global warming, arguing against leading scientists who say global warming is human-induced, and saying the issue is not an appropriate focus for evangelicals.\u201d
\nWell, someone always asks Jerry Falwell to weigh in and he never fails: \u201cI am today raising a flag of opposition to this alarmism about global warming and urging all believers to refuse to be duped by these \u2018earthism\u2019 worshippers,\u201d the Rev. Jerry Falwell.\u201d
\nWhat I see going on is that Dobson and friends don\u2019t think this is what \u201cevangelical\u201d means; perhaps there are evangelicals who don\u2019t see things the way he does. In other words, let\u2019s make room for all evangelicals.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christianity Today reports that James Dobson is leading a charge to remove Rev. Richard Cizik from the National Association of Evangelicals \u2014 he\u2019s VP \u2014 because of his relentless concern with global warming. What is the logic here? Is it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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