Channel 4 @ 8pm: God is Green

Dades

Documentary on tonight, Monday 12th Feb.

Could be interesting, even if it just gets you shouting at your TV on an otherwise boring Monday night.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/green.html

Dades

Well I hope nobody watched this as it didn't amount to much, I thought. :cool:

Meh!

5uspect

I watched it for about 10 minutes before it bored me to tears. What I found most interesting was the presenter, a Christian, looking at all these religions and various versions of Christianity and commenting on their exploitation in fighting global warning and mentioning nothing about how this affects his faith.

I think Top Gear did more in 5 minutes on Sunday than this did to make people realise that America needs a good kick up the backside.

humanji

What did Top Gear do?

5uspect

They went on a road trip across the southern States and drove thru Alabama with slogans such as "Man Love Rules" and "Hillary for President" painted on their (scrapheap recovered) cars. They were run out of a small town by "the boys"after being stoping for petrol. They also showed the mess in New Orleans a year after the Hurricane.

I think its repeated tonight on BBC.

EDIT: youtube!

pH

Interesting that the standard holy books are bereft of any Green message, in fact the whole 'Everything is there for man and he is master of all' message could easily be read as being very anti-green.

For books that are mean to be 'prophetic' and 'meaningful' today, they deal a lot with things of interest to folks 1,000's of years ago, and strangely say little about the challenges that we face now.

Like others above I tried to watch the program, but I managed only 10 or so minutes. I just have a total disconnect listening to people like that, I see their lips moving and hear words but nothing makes any sense.

No doubt in the next 10 years various churches will 'discover' a green message in their holy books after diligent 'interpretation' of scripture, and they'll attempt some form of jumping on the band-wagon. Except possibly for those merkins, who take this whole 'climate change' thing as just more evidence for the imminent rapture, and consider their use of SUVs as giving God a helpin' hand.

Eglinton

pH wrote:

No doubt in the next 10 years various churches will 'discover' a green message in their holy books after diligent 'interpretation' of scripture, and they'll attempt some form of jumping on the band-wagon.

haha. Indeed. You might make a killing at the bookies if you put some money down on that right now!

Scofflaw

pH wrote:

Interesting that the standard holy books are bereft of any Green message, in fact the whole 'Everything is there for man and he is master of all' message could easily be read as being very anti-green.

For books that are mean to be 'prophetic' and 'meaningful' today, they deal a lot with things of interest to folks 1,000's of years ago, and strangely say little about the challenges that we face now.

Like others above I tried to watch the program, but I managed only 10 or so minutes. I just have a total disconnect listening to people like that, I see their lips moving and hear words but nothing makes any sense.

No doubt in the next 10 years various churches will 'discover' a green message in their holy books after diligent 'interpretation' of scripture, and they'll attempt some form of jumping on the band-wagon. Except possibly for those merkins, who take this whole 'climate change' thing as just more evidence for the imminent rapture, and consider their use of SUVs as giving God a helpin' hand.

I'll give them a hand - Man was appointed steward, not master. It is his duty to care for what God has entrusted to him - and if you want to really sharpen that message, suggest that believers will be called to account for their stewardship of the earth, come the Day.

All Biblically justifiable - but then, what isn't?

cordially,
Scofflaw