| on Feb 21, 2008, 09:41 AM E.S.T.
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Page 1 of 2 The imploding National Council of Churches (NCC) is always flailing about
for a new raison d’etre. This month, it took its Global Warming alarmism
to Northern Ireland
, where it hopes that fears about a climate catastrophe will “inform the peace
and reconciliation process.” Even First Minister Ian Paisley, the once
firebrand Ulsterman who is now an elderly pillar of the Ulster peace
settlement, met with the ecclesiastical busybodies. The NCC’s furtive
mission was sponsored by the British Consulate in New York . Other members of the 2 day
junket were the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, the Coalition on the
Environment and Jewish Life and the Presbyterian Church (USA).
"Because global climate change will effect [sic] us all, and those in
poverty the most, it transcends religious and political divides and provides
vibrant opportunities for faith communities to come together to address this
global concern," implored Cassandra Carmichael, who directs the NCC’s
“eco-justice” program. A grinning Carmichael was featured in a photo with
Paisley , who is shown apprehensively grasping
three of his own fingers, perhaps repressing a subconscious gesture of
inhospitality. Also included in the group shot is Deputy First Minister
Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein, whose arms are more comfortably at his side.
The NCC’s “eco-justice” program, along with the Catholic and Jewish
environmental groups, are all partners in the Massachusetts-based National
Religious Partnership for the Environment, which funnels dollars from
left-leaning foundations to religious groups willing to propagate
environmentalist themes, especially Global Warming alarmism, through America’s
churches and synagogues. Another partner is the Evangelical Environmental
Network, which was strangely unrepresented in the Northern Ireland expedition.
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