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Gore
Here is
a hoax email which asserts that Al Gore denigrates Christianity.
"Refusing to accept the earth
as our sacred mother, these Christians have become a dangerous threat to the
survival of humanity. They are the blight on the environment and to believe in
Bible prophecy is unforgivable."
--VP Al Gore, in his book EARTH IN
BALANCE, p.342
The
quotation, which is easily checked by looking in Gore’s book, is false. The
writer, who exhibits a sincere lack of functional integrity, ought to be ashamed
of himself. Or herself.
On page
263 of Gore’s book, there are words which are similar, but which express quite
a different position:
“For
some Christians, the prophetic vision of the apocalypse is used — in my view,
unforgivably — as an excuse for abdicating their responsibility to be good
stewards of God's creation. Secretary of the Interior James Watt … was once
quoted as belittling concerns about environmental protection in part because it
would all be destroyed by God in the apocalypse. Not only is this idea
heretical in terms of Christian teachings, it is an appallingly self-fulfilling
prophesy of doom.”
To the
best of my knowledge, Gore claims he is a Christian.