Via Brave New Films Tony Perkins takes on eco-friendly Southern Baptists.
Perkins says "people are told and taught to look inwardly and making sure that they are spiritually prepared to meet the End Times, not throw away the keys to your SUV and jump on the Al Gore bandwagon."
In other words, global warming is real, will hurt people, and will harm creation, but that's OK. To say that this is bad theology is trivial. It is horrific, practically inhuman, and surely indecent.
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