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Re: [Phys-L] science +- politics +- religious denominations (plural)



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.