Left In Lowell

“I give you dominion over the earth” says God in the Bible (all right, not an exact quote, I haven’t been to church since I was a teen). And this passage is often given by the Religious Right as an excuse to abuse, pollute, and otherwise exploit nature.

Talk to Action’s cyncooper puts it this way in the title to his post: “Baby Trap: Why Anti-Environmental Evangelicals are Pro-Life Hypocrites.” This subject, of course, must be discussed in the new context of the Evangelical Climate Initiative recently publicized all over the place, for which these evangelical leaders are taking a lot of flack from their own side.

By the way, I want to point out that anyone interested in the intersection of religion and politics really ought to read Talk to Action. It’s a highly intelligent cadre of writers in one place, talking about the far Right, Dominionism (if you don’t know what that is, you ought to), and how to take back the country from those who use religion to further political ends.