re: #327 JacksonTn

SE … you give the Religious Right way more credit than they deserve … why do you think they would champion the Global Warming debate more than others … do you think they think it is a G-d issue? … I know many bible thumpers who do no not believe in Global Warming … or do you think the vast majority of the Religious Right just want to attach themselves to anything that is not left? …

Jackson: I didn’t say the Religious Right has championed anti-Global Warming more than other causes, but they’ve definitely championed it. See “Dominion Theology,” a very active movement which, greatly oversimplified, says that God commands us to use the earth’s resources until they’re all used up, and that failing to do so shows our lack of faith.

I’m sure you don’t buy that argument, but millions of people do. And some of them (James Watt, as Iceweasel points out above) have held very powerful positions in government.

You make a good point, I think, that many in the Religious Right want to avoid being associated with anything they define as “left,” and they’ve definitely framed AGW as being in that category…even as more and more individual churches come out in favor of conservation and green policies.