Comments on: Sarah Palin and New Evangelicals: Conservative, Christian, and Green http://deepgreenconversation.org/sarah-palin-and-new-evangelicals-conservative-christian-and-green/ Sun, 16 May 2010 05:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Doug & Jan in CO http://deepgreenconversation.org/sarah-palin-and-new-evangelicals-conservative-christian-and-green/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Doug & Jan in CO Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:30:00 +0000 http://deepgreenconversation.org/sarah-palin-and-new-evangelicals-conservative-christian-and-green/#comment-292 I wish I could agree with your suggestion that the majority of Evangelical Christians are also concerned about Creation Care. However, I still read too many posts which claim that environmentalists are fundamentally too liberal and non-believers. I also disagree that Sarah Palin represents the new Evangelical attitude. Instead, as we learn more about her political views, it appears that she represents the new wave of two-faced politicians hiding behind their claims of faith in order to ganer votes. Her selection by McCain was a choice made to win, not to govern, and as we near the debates, I believe that her inadequacies will come to the fore. I have always subscribed to the all-life view as a Christian, and see little from mainstream Evangelicals which supports this view. Instead, they seem to remain single-issue voters who will vote for an anti-abortion candidate, and ignore the same candidates' global warmaking and abuse of the poor and the disadvantaged. I pray that Evangelicals will learn that God expects us to respect ALL life, not just the lives of Americans, or jsut the lives of conservatives, or just the lives of Christians. After all, HE was known to befriend prostitutes, thieves and the marginalized in the world of HIS time. We are called t do the same, regardless of politics. I wish I could agree with your suggestion that the majority of Evangelical Christians are also concerned about Creation Care. However, I still read too many posts which claim that environmentalists are fundamentally too liberal and non-believers.

I also disagree that Sarah Palin represents the new Evangelical attitude. Instead, as we learn more about her political views, it appears that she represents the new wave of two-faced politicians hiding behind their claims of faith in order to ganer votes. Her selection by McCain was a choice made to win, not to govern, and as we near the debates, I believe that her inadequacies will come to the fore.

I have always subscribed to the all-life view as a Christian, and see little from mainstream Evangelicals which supports this view. Instead, they seem to remain single-issue voters who will vote for an anti-abortion candidate, and ignore the same candidates’ global warmaking and abuse of the poor and the disadvantaged. I pray that Evangelicals will learn that God expects us to respect ALL life, not just the lives of Americans, or jsut the lives of conservatives, or just the lives of Christians. After all, HE was known to befriend prostitutes, thieves and the marginalized in the world of HIS time. We are called t do the same, regardless of politics.

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