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"Spiritual and moral issues get highest marks."Evangelical Christians have radically different priorities from the rest of the country about the challenges the U.S. must confront in the next 10 years. According to a Barna poll, that's especially true concerning global warming alarmism.Only about a third of evangelicals gave global warming "top priority" status. They rated the issue lower than any of the other 80 groups in the survey. Topping the priority list for evangelicals was the health of churches.Stuart Shepard, managing editor of CitizenLink, who is also a meteorologist, said major news outlets are largely to blame for the hype.“If people get their information from the mainstream media, they’re only hearing one side of this," he told Family News in Focus. "There are top scientists and researchers who are skeptical of the outrageous claims about global warming and they make some solid science-based arguments, but you'd never know it from the evening news.”
He said Focus on the Family Action has been strongly encouraging evangelicals to not allow global warming alarmism to become a defining or a dividing issue.“Most evangelicals do not and should not see this as an issue that would rise to the level of evangelism, the sanctity of life, and the protection of marriage and religious liberty.”Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said the poll doesn’t mean evangelicals are not interested in taking care of the planet.
“Despite what the media may want to project upon evangelicals," he said, "they understand that if we, as a nation, get the spiritual issues right and build strong marriages and families — most of the other problems will be solved.”
As in the days of Noah...
