Some Christians in the United States are waking up on global warming.

Some other "Christians" are working very hard to keep them from acting on their newfound awareness.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), a group some 30 million strong, has been positioning themselves to challenge the Religious Right's money cult over the care of God's creation. For over a year, the NAE has been talking up its plans to pressure the Bush Administration into honest environmental action.

Again, money talks. All it takes is a letter from the purse holders of the Religious Right to turn "the greening of the evangelicals" a more familiar shade of bullshit brown. One letter, along with probably countless off-the-record phone calls, and the NAE folded.

The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA), a front organization pretending to be environmentally conscious but simply promoting traditional consumption in drag, gave the NAE a nicely worded declaration of war if they followed a greener path. Signed by such luminaries of hate as Charles Colson, James Dobson, Richard Roberts, Louis Sheldon, Donald Wildmon and fifteen more of their ilk, the letter is a veritable black book of those who financially profit from the twisting of Christian beliefs to capitalist ends.

Here's a choice excerpt:

"Evangelicals are to be first and foremost messengers of the good news of the gospel to a lost and dying world. We are to promote those things that please God and oppose those things in the world that clearly violate His righteous standard of conduct. We respectfully ask that the NAE carefully consider all policy issues in which it might engage in the light of promoting unity among the Christian community and glory to God."

This is the mindset of those who vet Bush's picks for Supreme Court Justices?

Does it sound reasonable that God would be displeased by humans doing whatever they can to avert environmental catastrophe in His creation? Even if global warming is a fantasy, I think God would be pleased to see us all taking it so seriously, just in case it might be true.

If Christ were walking the planet right now, wouldn't "His righteous standard of conduct" include environmental responsibility?

If this is truly "a lost and dying world," and the responsibility of Evangelicals is "to be first and foremost messengers of the good news of the gospel," then why do the high-roller preachers of the ISA even bother with their front organization for "Dominion, Stewardship and Conservation?"

Because green is not the color of their money.

I urge all members of the National Association of Evangelicals to split off from these people. If you pull your support from these phony Christians, their bank accounts will begin to dry up, rendering them impotent.

Then we can all get down to the serious work of undoing the damage already done.