On Thursday of last week, Russell Moore, dean of the school of theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, addressed the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the subject of global warming in a presentation entitled “An Examination of the Views of Religious Organizations Regarding Global Warming.”
“The first area of concern is that the biblical text not be used as a vehicle for a political agenda—no matter how commendable the agenda might be,” Moore stated. “To tie the authority of the Bible to the shifting and revisable scientific and public-policy proposals of one’s global warming agenda is unhelpful to the debate at best and trivializing of Christian faith at worst.”
Southern Baptists “are not opposed to environmental protection,” Moore argued, but they are “concerned about the ways in which religious arguments are used in this debate, possibly with harmful consequences both for public policy and for the mission of the church.”
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Moore also argued that proposals of many environmentalists were the result of “utopianism” and “apocalyptic scenarios” that ignore the evangelical “understanding of the narrative of history as outlined in Scripture.”
“And, ultimately, God will redeem his creation by freeing nature from [sin’s] curse,” Moore argued. “In our care for creation, we must maintain the limits of environmental action, knowing that the ultimate liberation of creation has everything to do with our resurrection and the resumption of human rule through Christ over this universe.”
As a result, Moore dismissed “global government action on climate change” as a flawed attempt to “reverse the curse of the Fall.”
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
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Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
Of course, he does have a large house, so one would expect that his numbers would be higher. The real question is whether living in a house that consumes that much electricity and natural gas is consistent with the message that Gore so adamantly preaches.
Some evangelicals have signed “a statement that demands urgent changes in values, lifestyles and public policies to avert disastrous changes in climate.” One evangelical said, “God will judge us for destroying the Creation. Therefore, we as evangelicals have a responsibility to be even more vigilant than others.” Others sharply disagree.
On Thursday of last week, Russell Moore, dean of the school of theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, addressed the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the subject of global warming in a presentation entitled “An Examination of the Views of Religious Organizations Regarding Global Warming.”
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