Faith Groups Divided Over Global Warming

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Faith groups divided over God’s role in climate change, natural disasters

By Michelle Boorstein
November 21, 2014

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[Oldiesfreak1854]

The evangelicals are the least concerned?  No surprise there.

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Is it me, or is this just more proof that polarisation now leads to Democratic leaning demographics support Democratic "issues"  (and vice versa for the GOP), rather than a reflection of the religions themselves.

[GaussLaw]

Hopefully now the caricature of environmentalists as a bunch of all white hipsters is over now.

[useful idiot]

The evangelicals are the least concerned?  No surprise there.

Yeah not really a surprise, but that's hardly what should be taken away from this poll. They're only 2 points ahead of white Catholics and 4 points ahead of white mainliners. The difference between the three groups is almost negligible in every one of these four categories. This is a white Christian (of whatever stripe) vs. everyone else divide. The evangelicals just tend to be more Republican than the Catholics/Mainliners.

The supposed pro-science positions of the mainline Protestant churches and RCC and the supposed anti-science positions of whatever is taken to be representative of evangelicals haven't resulted in any major difference between the groups.

[KCDem]

The whites continue to disappoint. What awful people.

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Well if you believe the world is 6,000 years old, you'll reject all of the evidence of ice cores and all that.

A lot of evangelicals also believe that God created the Earth for humans to use and that we can't possibly to any lasting damage to it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Even if you are a Young Earth Creationist, there's nothing that says God couldn't use global warming as a punishment upon a gluttonous and prideful people who care more about enjoying the riches of this world than they do the riches of the next.  The only thing God has specifically ruled out in the Bible is a world-wide flood.  Coastal flooding due to rising sea levels wouldn't apply.  The Old Testament is filled with example after example of the stiff-necked Israelites thinking that because they were the chosen people of God, nothing they could do could possibly cause Him to punish them all.  While pounding them purely with science is unlikely to change their minds, it shouldn't be difficult to get them to acknowledge at the least the possibility.

[useful idiot]

Well if you believe the world is 6,000 years old, you'll reject all of the evidence of ice cores and all that.

A lot of evangelicals also believe that God created the Earth for humans to use and that we can't possibly to any lasting damage to it.

If Catholics and Mainliners don't believe those things* then why isn't there a considerable difference between them and evangelicals on this issue?

* Of course, young earth creationism doesn't characterize all of evangelicalism by any means.

[GaussLaw]

Well if you believe the world is 6,000 years old, you'll reject all of the evidence of ice cores and all that.

A lot of evangelicals also believe that God created the Earth for humans to use and that we can't possibly to any lasting damage to it.

If Catholics and Mainliners don't believe those things* then why isn't there a considerable difference between them and evangelicals on this issue?

* Of course, young earth creationism doesn't characterize all of evangelicalism by any means.

Keep in mind that a lot of mainliners live in the more Northern states, and if you're asked a question about global warming during the frigid winter/late fall months, you're probably less likely to respond favorably to it.