Friday, September 06, 2024

Shell Oil Funds Climate-Skeptic Christian Groups

The Shell USA Co. Foundation donated half a million dollars over a decade to conservative Christian groups that deny a human role in climate change, oppose environmental regulations and favor the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

More

Comments

"Donations went to influential groups that teach Christians to see climate change as a Leftist myth, including Focus on the Family and advocacy organizations it founded " Family Research Council and the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom " and the American Family Association, Jay Sekulow's American Center for Law and Justice, the young-earth Discovery Institute, and Texas Right to Life, which claims climate change is "arguably, nonexistent."

Shell's foundation also made donations to dozens of Southern Baptist churches and institutions, even though the Southern Baptist Convention taught until 1991 that "humans are changing the earth" and causing temperatures to rise.

As BNG previously reported, the SBC backtracked from these views as evangelical leaders embraced the Republican Party."

more at the Baptist News Global thread link

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-06 12:03 AM

Not a bad source.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-06 01:47 AM

A normal person would see religious people doing wrong.

A historian would see religious people being used by people with secular materialist motives.

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-06 04:32 PM

Christians are the easiest marks for sociopaths to exploit.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-06 06:28 PM

Nah Stoners are the easiest marks. Just look how many of them both Green Party still.

#5 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-06 07:40 PM

Literally dirty money and nutbar religion, a twofer for the GQP!!!

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-09-06 08:56 PM

Secular materialists and their incessant need for more of everything have of course been exploiting Christianity since the time of Constantine. In fact the more often you look into horrible things people supposedly did in the name of Christianity the more often you find evidence that it might have been motivated by secular materialism.

#7 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-06 09:14 PM

... The Shell USA Co. Foundation donated half a million dollars over a decade to conservative Christian groups that deny a human role in climate change, oppose environmental regulations and favor the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency. ...

OK, my first question would be along the lines of....

Why do Christian groups have a concern about the politics of climate change?


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 09:22 PM

Drudge Retort Headlines

Gaetz Withdraws (65 comments)

Gaetz Sent over $10K in Venmo Payments to Women who Testified (33 comments)

Mike Johnson Institutes Transgender Bathroom Ban for U.S. House (30 comments)

RFK Jr. Compared Trump to Hitler (25 comments)

Pam Bondi Picked for AG After Gaetz Withdraws (21 comments)

Poll: Americans Remain Divided on Key Campaign Promises (21 comments)

Nikki Haley Trashes Trump Picks RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard (21 comments)

Hegseth's Sex Assault Accuser 'remembers saying no a lot': police (19 comments)

Arkansas Governor Proposes $6.5B Budget with Half Going to School Vouchers (17 comments)

Republicans on Ethics Panel Vote to Block Gaetz Report (17 comments)