Global Warming: NEA, Christians, and the Political “Wrong”

Anyone who continues to confuse Religion with Right-wing Politics is drawing upon flawed logic and a misguided allegiance to a corporate dole from which they will never benefit.

On May 2 of 2007, CNN’s Glenn Beck, in his infinite disregard, aired “Glenn Beck Exposed: The Climate of Fear” a one-hour program which tackles what he calls the “media hype surrounding the global warming debate” and suggests, like Jim Inhofe, the former Republican Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, that Global Warming is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I am dismayed that so many people continue to vehemently tow the Republican Party-line in the name of God and in the faces of both Science and common-sense. The 1980s found a synergy of the Republican Party with Christian Evangelicals in this country, courtesy of astute political planning by both the NEA and Ronald Regan; since then, the two have been inexcisably linked. When will the Church realize that the Republican Party isn’t the party of the Christian church, but the party of the Oil, Automotive, and Gas industries—that the Republican Party just knows where its votes blindly come from, and abuse that power? The Church isn’t a foundation of the Republican Party, it’s a tool.

In late 2006, Bill Moyers, aired a special on PBS—a station which continues to maintain its integrity—entitled “Is GOD Green?” I highly recommend it to those with Religious affinities or not, whether you subscribe to Global Warming or not:

Bill Moyers’s Special Report: Is GOD Green?
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/index.html

VIDEO of the Entire Program
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/media_players/chapter2-1.html

It amazes me that people continue to deny that Global Warming is a reality. Whether it’s been influence by man or not is completely irrelevant: it’s a fact.

Shame on Glenn Beck. Shame on CNN. Shame, shame, shame on the Republicans and the Church.