Between Southern Baptists and Bill McKibben

Today's Daily Oklahoman has posted a story with the headline, "National Baptist Group Gets Inhofe's Support." The National Baptist group is the Southern Baptist Convention and the title should really be reversed. Inhofe is the world's most infamous climate change denier and he's in what may be a hotly contested campaign to be re-elected to the U.S. Senate. Southern Baptists are demonstrating their support for him by sponsoring a "We Get it" campaign to deny that green houses gases are effecting the environment.

Baptists used to be involved in personal evangelistic campaigns like the "I Found It" campaign of the mid-1970's. Now Southern Baptists "Get It" about the supposed need for getting churches involved in covert political campaigns. They replaced the call of the gospel to be born again with a movement for a rebirth of Southern Culture long ago.

On the other side of the global warming issue is a dire warning from environmentalist Bill McKibben who says getting this issue right may be "The Last Chance for Civilization."

Surely, the truth about climate change is somewhere between Southern Baptists and Bill McKibben. I think it is much closer to McKibben than to Baptists.