I missed this one. First “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Oscar, then Al received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Now he has finished the year with the 2007 Baptist of the Year Award.Here he is receiving a green bible at the “New Baptist Covenant Celebration” in Atlanta on January 31st.
I really liked the comment from the presenter Robert Parham: “We have with us today a Baptist prophet who is so unacceptable that the Baptist establishment in his hometown of Nashville neither acknowledged his winning the Nobel Peace Prize nor honored with coverage his notable Nobel lecture,” Parham said. “Prophets are unacceptable because their truth is inconvenient.”So is ecology, global warming, reduction of our carbon usage, etc. a moral issue? Do you support the Greens? Why do the conservative members of the Southern Baptist Convention work so hard with the conservative industrial polluters to destroy our ecology?Peter Nuhn
Okay, just talking like old MLK there!
Tom, you beat me to it!
Touché
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Ahhh,
Touché Tom, Touché
Agreed that mankind is making our situation worse though use of fossil fuels, pollution, etc.
However, the worst pollution is people. China, India, Africa and other countries where birth control is unavailable or not encouraged. Even in this country we have couples who, rather than adopting, go the route of implanting fertilized eggs thereby producing 2, 3, 4, 5 and even 6 babies – litters, dammit! And there’s a tv show (Discovery??) about a family with something like 16 children and probably more to come. Why is this kind of lifestyle glamorized?
The only hope I see of getting couples to reduce family size is to go back to the flat earth idea. Maybe if we can convince them it’s already wall to wall and somebody is going to begin falling off the edge some of them will think before they procreate??
OT:
Does anyone else think Phreedm’s epitaph is going to consist of a single Ellipsis?
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It would be very fitting given the number of logical omissions he makes.
Damn, my ASCII art failed me!
This blog must delete extra whitespace.
alatham
According tho the article, it wasn’t possible to resell the stock once the person bought it. This was brought up by another man who didn’t want his full name used. I didn’t know that was possible-to buy a stock you couldn’t resell-but then I know virtually nothing about it. Seems fishy to me.
I think an ellipsis would make a very ironic epitath for phreedm!
Here lies all the logic that Phreedm has forgotten to include in his arguments:
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Comment from: Hoodlum
Wow…you’ve got to be kidding. But since you insist. I guess you haven’t heard of the scam known as “Carbon Credits”?
Or Kyoto?
Or how about McCain-Lieberman?
Look at Phreeky’s last post. Now, how could anybody but a delusional theist whack job think that Phreeky’s last post was in any way a response to Hoodlum’s question? What goes on in Phreeky’s brain when asked a question of any type? I think that he truly does not think at all. Instead his responses appear to be conditioned responses to a stimulus question. Sit up and beg Phreeky, roll over Phreeky. Not on the carpet Phreeky!
What,
No, I won’t do it! My brain is conditioned to try to find some meaning within the content that I feed it. My brain punishes me painfully if I feed it known nothingness.
Anybody who doesn’t “believe in” global warming at this point should be kicked to the curb. I have lived on this planet long enough to see the evidence with my own two eyes.
Al Gore’s message is urgent. Perhaps he doesn’t care who the receiver is as long as it is received. Lighten up on him. He IS fighting the good fight.
Phreakshow blows more smoke out of his a$$…
Wow…you’ve got to be kidding. But since you insist. I guess you haven’t heard of the scam known as “Carbon Credits”?
Or Kyoto?
Or how about McCain-Lieberman?
The main scams I am aware of are the pagan occult nonsense from Dobson, Robertson, and the rest of the superstitious christians. They extort money based on imaginary fables about the afterlife.
The scam that is the Republican’t sadministration of the new millennium is relatively close behind. Lies, hypocrisy, and high crimes and misdemeanors that are exponentially worse than what the Republican’ts used to impeach the last legally elected President, yet seem to be perfectly okay with the sanctimonious abominations who still support him to this day.
And the con job by the conservative media has been doing to the american people on behalf of their Republican’t masters, spinning things to the far right while purportedly being liberal in their journamalism, is pretty high on the list too.
Funny… all the Republican’t spin on the climate control initiatives, much less anything from McClueless and Holy Joe, doesn’t register on the radar.
Tom hits the nail on the head.
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Gore never said that about the internet.
Surprising.