Various bishops – they call themselves “Eco Bishops” – are going to meet in Cape Town next week to commiserate together on how everyone else is causing global warming by producing too much carbon dioxide.
Canada has its very own Eco Bishops – I feel so proud; among them are: Jane Alexander, bishop of Edmonton and Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Bishop.
My favourite sentence from the ACNS article is:
The goal is to strategise together in order strategies for raising the issue of climate change and environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church.
Only the Anglican News Service could come up with such a lucid definition of what this is all about. I have to admit, though, they have one thing right: there really is “environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church”; although, the global Anglican Church is more disintegrating than degrading.
Jihad Jane and MacDonald-Classic- two of the dimmest lit bulbs in the Anglican chandelier- a disgrace to Anglicans and a REAL disgrace to Christianity- I’m so sad for whomever remains under their lefty thumbs,drinking their koolaid- and sad for Anglicans- everywhere
Curbing the toxic emissions from the Liberal Anglican world would be a real boon, so let’s start with High Priestess J-S.
MacDonald writes regularly for the Anglican Journal and is the bishop for the North American Indians (I refuse to call them “1st Nations” for that implies that they are better than everyone else, which they are not). He is more of a political activist than a Bishop as he virtually always writes about what he calls “injustice”, be it social economic or environmental. Almost never does he write about the saving Grace of God but rather comes across (to me at least) as using god to support his left wing agenda.
So now rather than conducting these upcoming meetings electronically (which is so incredibly easy to do these days) he is travelling and burning gobs of greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels to meet with a bunch of enviro-nazis to bitch and complain about the amount of greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels the rest of us are burning? One word for this busy body comes to mind. Hypocrite.
Actually I was at the meeting and there was an incredible sense of the Grace of God. Yes the bishops have been holding skype meetings for six months to save emissions but sometimes you do have to meet face to face. To hear the stories of the bishop of the philipines and the bishop of Fiji, our hearts were broken. The family of God has to come together to challenge Climate injustice and we were glad to have Bishop Jane and Bishop Mark to share of the situation in Canada. Your bishops were a great emissary from your country and you can be proud of them. God is doing something in the Anglican Communion Praise be the name of the Lord
“Climate injustice”. To me this sounds like a load of nonsense. Nothing more than powerful sounding words intending to provoke an emotional response.
Greenanglicans, you will undoubtedly be disappointed by this but frankly I am not sold the snake oil of global warming, nor its revised version called climate change. The so called “scientists” that are screaming like a bunch of chicken little’s (“the sky is falling”) can’t even predict the weather for as short a time as a single week! Not long ago they were predicting that the polar ice caps would be completely gone and places like Florida would be under water, that England would never again see snow, etc. etc. etc. So now that none of these dooms day forecasts have materialized do they admit that they were wrong? No they do not. Instead they just keep in repeating the same bull!
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. I am not going to be fooled again by these charlatans.
Greenanglican,
No doubt, but to do that you had to make use of the fossil fuels whose use you take such trouble to denounce.
It’s worse than that. Without fossil fuels you would have no skype because there would be no computers, no Internet, no modern technology that we all take for granted. You would have no spectacles with polycarbonate lenses, no hearing aids, no hospitals, no PA system in your church, no clothes other than those consisting of all natural fibre, no cars, no trains, no aeroplanes or modern housing. I could go on.
You want to plunge civilisation – what’s left of it – back into the 18th Century when the average life expectancy was 36. By adopting this ridiculous anti-fossil fuel position, the ACoC demonstrates that it is being run by benighted Luddites. Speaking of which, I see Fred Hiltz has gone on a carbon fast for Lent.
Your Bishops Jane and Mark should be ashamed of themselves for lending their position as spiritual leaders to such a preposterous cause.