Churches Buying Global Warming

Hey folks,

I do not even know what to say about this. Really. You cannot believe in God, and Global Warming. You just simply can’t. OK. I’ll leave out the supernatural reason WHY God did this, but Genesis 6: 5-7

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

We were saved from total and utter destruction by ONE man. Noah.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD

You know the story. Noah built the Ark and mankind was saved from complete and utter destruction. God made a promise to Noah.

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8

Then God provided a sign to all mankind that we STILL see today.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

A Rainbow. Every time you look up and see a Rainbow, what you are actually looking at is this covenant between God and YOU. The promise he made to Noah, to NEVER completely destroy the Earth again. So if GOD will not do so. Do you REALLY think he will let us?

But according to USA Today - Churches go 'green' for Palm Sunday By Jeff Martin, USA TODAY

Palm Sunday is going green.

This year, more than 2,130 congregations across the USA, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians, will use “eco-palms” that are harvested in a more environmentally friendly way, says Dean Current, program director at the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management at the University of Minnesota.

The number of churches using eco-palms on Palm Sunday — which, in the Christian faith, marks Jesus' triumphant return to Jerusalem before his death and resurrection — has grown from a pilot program of 5,000 in 2005 to the 600,000 eco-palms ordered for this year's March 16 celebration, Current says. He estimates that is about 1.5% of the 35 million to 40 million palms sold annually for Palm Sunday services in the USA but says he expects the growth to continue.

What makes the eco-palms different is the way that they are harvested, says RaeLynn Jones Loss, a research specialist at the University of Minnesota.

More than 50% of the palms are wasted by traditional methods, Jones Loss says. Harvesters in the eco-palm program are trained to be more selective. They cut only the best fronds, which results in only 5% to 10% waste.

Now if these churches have decided that they have to do their part to put off Global Warming. I am TRULY saddened. But I have a feeling, that it is more likely, they are doing it to help the communities they serve. They even hint to this in this article.

About 25% of the program's proceeds go back to the communities where they were harvested. They pay for such things as scholarships, she says.

“It's a matter of helping support these communities, getting them a fair amount of money for their wares and also using a sustainable resource,” says Chris Barnett of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Anchorage.

Like I keep telling you folks. MONEY

The eco-palms can cost more, depending on the type. A typical order of 200 eco-palms costs $47.50, Jones Loss says, compared with $21 to $23 for traditional palms, according to Catholic Supply of St. Louis.

Anyway. Look for the Chicken Little Crowd to jump all over this. “See, even the Religious people are excepting the fact Global Warming, uh, sorry, Climate Change is real. What is wrong with you?”

No one will ever, nor can ever, dispute that Climate Change is occurring. It occurs all the time. We have little to do with it. As for “What’s wrong with me?” I have the ability to THINK.
Peter