{"id":3279,"date":"2010-05-13T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2010-05-13T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:05:34","slug":"a-southern-baptist-leaders-view-of-the-oil-spill-and-christian-responsbility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"A Southern Baptist Leader’s View of the Oil Spill and Christian Responsbility"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no shortage of articles and broadcast reports on the Gulf oil spill–who is to blame, what’s being done to stem the flow of oil, what the impact will be on the Gulf coast and its people, flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

The Flourish Blog has an important view of things, The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Creation Care<\/span><\/a>, from Southern Baptist Seminary’s Russell Moore.<\/p>\n

Moore writes:<\/p>\n

Some conservatives, and some conservative evangelicals, act as though \u201cenvironmentalism\u201d is by definition \u201cliberal\u201d or even just downright silly. Witness a lot of the evangelical rhetoric across social media on Earth Day a while back: mostly Al Gore jokes and wisecracks about cutting down trees or eating endangered species as a means of celebration.<\/p>\n

Do some environmentalists reject the dignity of humanity? Yes. Do some replace the reverence for creation with that due the Creator? Of course. This happens in the same way some do the same thing with reverence for economic profit or any other finite thing.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing conservative though, and nothing \u201cevangelical,\u201d about dismissing the conservation of the natural environment. And the accelerating Gulf crisis reminds us something of what\u2019s at stake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an important read for those of us who are conservative evangelicals from one of our community’s articulate leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no shortage of articles and broadcast reports on the Gulf oil spill–who is to blame, what’s being done to stem the flow of oil, what the impact will be on the Gulf coast and its people, flora and fauna. The Flourish Blog has an important view of things, The Gulf of Mexico Oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-jim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t