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Here are some amusing numbers:
0 lds.org The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
0 pcanet.org Presbyterian Church in America
0 cumberland.org Cumberland Presbyterian Church
1 naccc.org National Association of
Congregational Christian Churches
7 mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
7 lcms.org Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod
107 urj.org Union for Reform Judaism
345 ucc.org United Church of Christ
619 anglicancommunion.org Anglican Communion
1010 pcusa.org Presbyterian Church USA
1870 umc.org United Methodist Church
2690 episcopalchurch.org Episcopal Church
3700 .va Roman Catholic Church
The numbers represent google's count of the number of times
the phrase "climate change" appears on each denomination's web site.
For example, the Pontifical Academy of Science lumps climate
change in with deforestation and other habitat-destruction
issues, which seems remarkably reasonable to me.
It pays to be careful. At the lexical level you might think
that the Presbyterian Church in the USA might be similar to
the Presbyterian Church in America ... but that would be
spectacularly wrong, by a ratio of 1000 to zero.
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These numbers suggest to me that it would be a serious
mistake to associate the anti-science attitude with religion
per se. It looks to me like politics, not religion.
There are some denominations that believe that separation of
church and state is good for the church /and/ good for the
state ... but other denominations not so much.
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