On National Review, Jay Richards continues his push back against Evangelical Christians who support action on climate change. His advice? Stop being gulled by left-wing strategists:
No one expects throngs of Evangelicals to start voting for pro-choice Democrats. But much of the media agrees with the Washington Post’s infamous description of Evangelicals as “poor, undereducated, and easily led.” If Democrats can get just a small percentage of Evangelicals to worry more about global warming and gasoline than the gay marriage and the proliferation of abortion, then they just might shift the demographics in their favor. So we should expect to see fawning coverage of liberal Evangelicals on the environment in the next fourteen months.
Richards is a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty (motto: “integrating Judeo-Christian Truths with Free Market Principles”). Unsurprisingly, his fellowship was (and perhaps still is) funded by ExxonMobil.
Richards is also an advisor to the Interfaith Stewardship Council, a Jewish/Christian coalition that was founded, in part, to counter “unfounded or undue [environmental] concerns such as destructive manmade global warming, overpopulation, and rampant species loss.”
According to ISI, recent scientific findings have left the “catastrophic human-induced global warming (CHIGW) dogma” near collapse. It is putting together a network of churches to spread the word…
In his spare time from fighting the CHIGW, Richards is a booster for intelligent design (he used to work for the Discovery Institute). He also has Copernicus in his sights. While not quite a flat earther, one of his books demonstrates that:
COPERNICUS WAS WRONG: We are at the center of the cosmos after all… Well, not at the geographical center – but here is proof that one of the most cherished assumptions of materialism, that Earth is an insignificant dust speck in an obscure corner of the universe, is dead wrong. The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery provides proof that Earth is a lot more significant than virtually anyone has realized — except for tenacious post-Copernican theists.
Who will he take on next, I wonder? Newton?
