| Topic: | For Laurence: what would Jesus drive? | |
| Posted by: | Patrick ONeill | |
| Date/Time: | 02/12/10 15:34:00 |
| From the ABC in the US: What would Jesus drive? That's the provocative question a group called the Evangelical Environmental Network is asking, and it claims that the answer is something fuel efficient. In an ad campaign that will air in four states, the group says Christians have a moral imperative to preserve the environment by giving up their gas-guzzling SUVs, minivans and pickups. "Too many of the cars, trucks and SUVs that are made, that we choose to drive, are polluting our air," the commercial says. "And endangering our health, especially the health of our children." The television ads, which will run in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and North Carolina, include a question: "What would Jesus drive?" Baptist minister the Rev. Jim Ball, the executive director of the Evangelical Environmental Network, said the link between the teachings of Jesus and the fuel economy of cars was clear to him. "When you look at the impact of transportation on human health and on global warming and Jesus was the great physician of body and soul," Ball told Good Morning America. "The most basic teaching of Jesus is to love your neighbor like yourself. How can you do that when you are filling your neighbor's lungs with pollution?" |