http://www.climatecrisis.net/

This movie should be a much-needed wake up call if we don’t all hit the snooze button and roll over.

A little over 4 years ago I read a book that urged me to answer the following question…

“Like most Christians, you have probably accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, but have you ever accepted Jesus as your political Lord and Savior?”

That one question started me down a process of self-analysis and reevaluation of my social and political views. I always felt that politics in general was corrupt so I might as well vote for the guy that will bother me the least and charge me the lowest amount of tax for the horrible job they did. I thought that faith was private and should not factor into my political views. That was bad logic and poor stewardship of the freedom and responsibility that God gave me. I have long since repented and been “politically saved”. I realized that if the message of Jesus didn’t affect my views about public policy and political allegiance then I was being selfish and missing the point. The politics of Jesus is something that urges us to look beyond political alliances that benefit ourselves and instead have compassion and understanding for the whole world regardless of the inconveniences they cause for us now.

I really don’t care much for Al Gore, but I’ve been waiting for a couple of months to see this movie he created. My wife and I saw it last night and it turned out to be very good despite his really weak presentation skills. I wish they had paid a professional actor to narrate the movie.

Why do so many Christians ignore this message? Too many conservative Christians interpret the message of the Bible to be about how the world will be literally destroyed instead of understanding that the Bible from Genesis to the Gospels to Revelation is telling us how to avoid the destruction of the world. God doesn’t want the world to be destroyed and he is not harboring a horrible plan to end it and rebuilt it. Visions and prophecies of the end of the world are warnings of possible outcomes given our current behaviors not predictions of an inevitable outcome.

I was a little disappointed that the movie didn’t go into more details about the current administrations complete disregard for the environment. President Bush’s appointments of oil industry personnel into very important positions of influence over the governments environmental and energy regulation agencies have been hard to tolerate. I don’t understand how Christians have been so brainwashed about politics.

http://www.net.org/reports/appointments.vtml

http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_05/vs.html