Shall they not both fall into the ditch?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders are urging President George W. Bush and Congress to take action against global warming, declaring that the changing climate is a "moral and spiritual issue."

In an open letter to be published on Tuesday, more than 20 religious groups urged U.S. leaders to limit greenhouse gas emissions and invest in renewable energy sources.

"Global warming is real, it is human-induced and we have the responsibility to act," says the letter, which will run in Roll Call and the Politico, two Capitol Hill newspapers.

"We are mobilizing a religious force that will persuade our legislators to take immediate action to curb greenhouse gases," it says.

The letter is signed by top officials of the National Council of Churches, the Islamic Society of North America and the political arm of the Reform branch of Judaism.

Top officials from several mainline Christian denominations, including the Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church and Alliance of Baptists also signed the letter, along with leaders of regional organizations and individual churches.

Rev. Joel Hunter, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals, also signed the letter, though that group has not officially taken a stance on global warming due to opposition from some of its more conservative members.

What we have here is a bunch of apostate mainline denominations and one renegade Evangelical. With the exception of the Evangelical what all these organizations have in common is both a liberal political and religious outlook.

In John 14:6 Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." The use of the definite article indicates that he was saying that he was the only way, the only truth and the only light. The use of the exclusionary term "no one comes" indicates that the only access to the Father is through the Son, Jesus. Every one of those theologically liberal organizations rejects that exclusively which Christ considered a key part of his message (after all if there was another route for man to take to God then why should he have died upon the cross).

In the rejection of that fundamental truth they have also rejected their primary reason for existing as "Christians". In order to fill that gap left by the abandonment of the gospel they have sought out various messianic and millenarian political dogmas. They have heaped to themselves teachers to scratch their itching ears with stories of global warming, income inequality, racism and a host of other secular demons which can be fought in a secular parody of spiritual warfare (lacking only the Spirit).

These are blind guides knowing neither how to help one get to heaven nor how to improve the earth.