SBC and climate change; it figures

In 2007, the Southern Baptist Convention drew on this passage in a resolution on global warming
declaring that Christians should exercise dominion over the Earth, and that the U.S. government
should reject mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Peach_Baptists and Climate Change.pdf

Why, of course they did.  Probably THE most accommodating mainline denom of all.  Of course,  that is assuming they can still be considered “mainline”.  I suppose their sheer size makes that arguable,  but their lockstep with contemporary fundamentalist theology makes them much more akin to the mega church movement.

I just hope that some of those signs I have seen of some independent thinking by some prominent SBC bloggers/spokespersons has made its way via the popularity of the climate/environmental concerns in the youth onto the theological radar.

Jonathan Merritt in Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet. Humans may be one,  although I am unfamiliar with this writing, and will have to see how independent he remains of prevailing right wing economics,  which has inundated evangelical Christian theology.
(update- seems Merritt may no longer be a Southern Baptist…with RNS now….but will continue checking….as of June 2013,  he still is,  just read)

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