Climate Change: The U.S. Causing Suffering for Most Vulnerable?

Climate Change: The U.S. Causing Suffering For Most Vulnerable?

1/20/2020

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America cares about this planet, and that is admirable. But all too often this platform results in extreme measures and calling for policies based on questionable-science and conclusions. In an article from the ELCA's Living Lutheran website, Amy Reumann, Director of ELCA Advocacy, states,

"Climate change is the result of human sinfulness, as we in the U.S. consume more than our fair share of natural resources through unsustainable lifestyles and energy use while those who contribute least to greenhouse gas emissions are suffering its impacts the most.” (See here)

Ruth Ivory-Moore, the ELCA Program Director for Environment and Corporate Responsibility, similarly states,

“All of creation is experiencing the impact of global warming. These extreme weather patterns result in unprecedented floods, droughts and wildfires, and rising sea levels that are leading to the degradation of the earth. And the consequences are not being borne equally. The most vulnerable among us are paying a higher price; that is, they are disproportionately impacted with extraordinary losses and damages. We are truly in a dire situation, but there is hope—both spiritually and scientifically.”

These are highly questionable statements. Offering dollars given to the ELCA go to pay for this kind of advocacy.

6 Comments

James Young

1/20/2020 01:16:28 pm

I think you said "advocacy" when you meant "lunacy."

George

1/20/2020 01:19:59 pm

We are all sinners. The planet cannot be saved except through Jesus. It is admirable to care for the earth as we have it now in the ways we sinners create programs for relative sustainability. But they will not last. If we place our hope only on those programs and forget that it is inevitable that our planet and we ourselves will pass away, then we miss Jesus' words of true and lasting comfort/sustainability in Mark 13: "Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away."

What we have now will pass away. And this could happen today. I'd rather place my hope in Jesus and the comfort that his guaranteed sustainability endures and has no similarity at all with relative sustainability.

Tom McCray link

1/20/2020 01:20:35 pm

This is garbage. Shame on the ELCA for promoting this hoax, this lie ALL for their political agenda. Just another reason THOUSANDS continue to leave the ELCA.

1/20/2020 01:40:41 pm

These words by Ivory-Moore: “"...and the consequences are not being borne equally. The most vulnerable among us are paying a higher price; that is, they are disproportionately impacted with extraordinary losses and damages. We are truly in a dire situation, but there is hope—both spiritually and scientifically.”

If the church is called to equal out the burdens between rich and poor or "all of us" (to use her words) and indeed seek equation as the end-goal and means to that goal then we are trusting in how the law as the final means of arbitration can get things done for us at the expense of the final word which God has placed for Christians and that is in the Gospel. Indeed it is part of the nature of God's law to bring out retributive justice and it is the proper use of God's law that equation happens and is effective/affective. But as we all know from scripture: "...with the law comes the knowledge of sin." God has established a means of righteousness that is not oriented under the auspices or authority of the law but of that which Christ has brought by means of his forgiveness through his death on the cross. That is not a measure to be used as a standard for events occurring under the law unless Jesus' death finds active force there to end that type of equity for something new and different under his guidance and authority. If the church does not preach/teach that type of authority then it allows people to believe only in one type of authority, the authority which only the law can bring about. By doing that the church sets its unique mission aside for preaching the Gospel in favor of allowing the old ways and means the only means of ascendancy.

Jay

1/20/2020 04:43:54 pm

Since when did the ELCA care about "the most vulnerable" among us? They are full-throated supporters of abortion. If kids are going to be killed, what difference does it make to them if the child is inside or outside of the womb? I guess "location" only matters when it fits their POLITICAL agenda. So sad that good, godly people are still willing to be associated with this pagan type of the Harlot.

Curt B

1/21/2020 10:05:32 am

Amen Jay, you took the words out of my mouth. How in the world can anyone professing care for the "most vulnerable" support killing the unborn? These unborn babies are truly the most vulnerable among us, in every sense of the word. To support their killing, whatever language is used, is supporting evil.

Abortion is the key reason I left an ELCA after many years of doubt and an increasing sense that I was not supposed to be there any longer. I watched with foreboding as the ELCA became more and more left-leaning and embraced falsehoods as truth, the abortion statement in May of 2019 was the cause of the final break.

I must admit to missing my local church very much. I still have terrible feelings of longing to be with the good folks that are there even now, the vast majority of whom simply don't know what the ELCA really stands for.

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