Dear friends:

This week, members of the religious left had a big environmentalism conference.  Of course, they do not call it environmentalism, but "creation care," hopefully to distinguish it from their secular environmental wacko brethren.  Participants represented mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and yes, Muslims.

Osama bin Laden should have been invited and maybe that would have motivated him to stop polluting the environment by continually blowing up people, cars, and buildings.

Any serious Christian would want to care for the environment with all reasonable means, but these people have made environmentalism their religion.

A main speaker was Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the 30-million member National Association of Evangelicals, or should I say National Association of Left-Leaning Evangelicals, or National Association of Former Evangelicals. 

This is much the same group that is demanding Israel give up its God-given land to the terrorists who are committed to Israel's destruction and the death of every Jew.  But don't confuse this group with the facts.  To them, cleaning up the environment must include getting rid of all Jews.

They call climate change the "civil rights movement of the 21st century," an insult to Dr. Martin Luther King.

A telling fact of the movement is that most speakers, like Rev. Cizik, linked global climate change to "economic inequality."  Does that ring a bell for you?  Hello Karl Marx.  This clearly reveals their leftist political agenda.

One pastor attendee said his entire congregation has become "mobilized" in the creation care movement.  He said participants should be "living a life of radical faith."  Can you believe this?  Radical faith in what?  In the highly disputed idea that man and not sun cycles is causing the planet to warm ever so slightly?  I have never seen such misguided spiritual leadership.  Why isn't he mobilizing them to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost who will soon enter a Christless eternity?

One participating church has weekly classes on global warming.  A photo with the news report this week showed members at that church sorting and recycling trash.  Oh, now that is a great church activity that really stirs my soul!  All churches should immediately institute that.  By the way, a while back I read a good article proving that more non-renewable resources are expended than are saved in the complex, multi-stage process of recycling.

If a Bible-believing preacher exhorts people to have a "radical faith" in God and the Holy Bible, he is ridiculed and criticized.  But if he exhorts people to have a radical faith in Al Gore and his discredited book, he is enlightened, praised, and part of the 21st century civil rights movement.

In their next big conference, I fully expect them to elect Al Gore as Honorary Pope.

I wonder what they will do in the soon-coming Tribulation when it is revealed that God's wrath on a rebellious humanity will cause "a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.... something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died... " (Revelation 8:7-9). 

So much for the environment.  Of course, Jesus will restore it when He returns, but we had better place emphasis on Him now.

Jim