"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."

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