Denouncing WWJD
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denunciation of the WWJD campaign I’ve read yet comes from
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Henry Lamb
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align="top" border="0" alt="*" />. He warns Americans, “The
anti-choice crowd is after your car.” The religious left wing is
mounting a campaign to demonize SUV’s.
The Clergy who receive the
literature need to be careful. Paul Gorman and his organization
don’t care what the Bible says. They want to push the global
“Green Religion.”
Churches that support this foolishness should realize that
they are simply being used as political pawns by this group
of extremists. Pastors should certainly examine the theology
and doctrine embraced by the founders of this movement. Many
who have tend to disassociate themselves, and their churches,
from the earth-goddess, Gaia belief system promoted by Thomas
Berry, Paul Gorman, the Temple of Understanding, the Gaia
Institute, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (which
gave birth to the NRPE).
Why should you feel guilty for driving a car that makes you
feel safe? Why should you feel guilty about driving a car big
enough for your whole family? Henry Lamb concludes his essay
saying “This cause is not only anti-choice, it is anti-freedom,
which is anti-American.”
This post has 7 comments
November 26th, 2002
I think it would be good to reflect on rampant consumerism and what Jesus would think about it and about what choice in transportation is really “Conservative” A smaller normal car that gets 35 to 45 MPG or an SUV that runs on imported oil from Saudi Arabia at 15 MPG and is classified by the EPA in the same environmental emissions standards as a bus. My father is an environmental chemist who drives a smaller truck that he keeps well tuned and watches the mileage.
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November 26th, 2002
I don’t really see asking people to choose responsibly and well thought out as anti choice or anti American. You still have a choice to buy an SUV but I think it would be wise to think about your motivations and the consequences of your actions.
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November 26th, 2002
I question the sincerity of the people asking us to think about What Would Jesus Drive. These people don’t even believe in the Jesus of the Bible. They’re using him as an icon like Disney uses Mickey Mouse. The people at NRPE are Gaia worshipers and their use of Jesus is blasphemous.
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November 26th, 2002
I don’t think what they are trying to do is any different how Pat Robertson and other groups use Jesus as an icon for profit and political gains. Even the root of the word “Icon” is based in religion.
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December 26th, 2002
I found this quote in a recent Breakpoint article:
Scarcely had the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign been announced than jokes about what our Lord would do in other circumstances began popping up. They became a staple on late-night television, in editorial cartoons, and on the Internet. The effect of the effort so far has not been to get people to re-think what they drive but to turn the Lord into a cartoon character.
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May 30th, 2003
Henry Lamb sounds defensive to me. I sense guilt and shame beneath his strong message. Our Lord has commanded us to be good stewards of God’s creation– we are not doing so well. The WWJDrive campaign is simply posing the question of how our transporation choices affect God’s creation. Why run from this question?
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May 30th, 2003
Nobody is saying we shouldn’t take care of God’s creation. We’re to worship the Creator, not His creation. The people running the WWJDrive campaign aren’t really Christians. Most of them are Pagans who worship Gaia, not Jehovah God.
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