Saturday, April 30, 2011

Protestant pastors increasingly skpetical of global warming and human cause, along red-blue lines

"Sixty percent of Protestant pastors disagree that global warming is real and man-made," contrary to a "strong scientific consensus," and "All the usual red-blue divides apply," Courier-Journal religion reporter Peter Smith writes in his "Faith and Works" column for the Louisville newspaper. The numbers from LifeWay Research show more skepticism about global warming than the last time the firm asked the question, in 2008, it said in a news release.

LifeWay is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, but its results "echo other polling," Smith reports. "Evangelicals, Republicans, pastors in the South and those with lower educations are more likely to be skeptical of warming being man-made. . . . Pastors in mainline congregations, which tend to be more liberal, tend to believe in man-made warming, as do Democrats and those in the Northeast." (Read more)

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