Thanks, Rev. Pantload!! 90% Of Christian Clergy Understand Reality Of Climate Collapse, Nearly All Remain Silent

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A mammoth 90 percent of American Christian leaders — from Catholics to evangelicals — believe in the reality of human-induced climate change, a new study has found. However, these same leaders are typically silent in their beliefs and fail to share that understanding with their congregants, according to the study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Because of leadership’s silence on the matter, rank-and-file Christians think most of their leaders do not believe,” senior author Gregg Sparkman, an assistant professor at Boston College, said in a statement. As a result, Sparkman explained, those same congregants “feel hesitant to even discuss climate change with their fellow churchgoers.”

Sparkman and author Stylianos Syropoulos, now an assistant professor at Arizona State University, drew their conclusions based on a survey of 1,600 Christian leaders across the country. Of these leaders, they found that nearly 90 percent said they believed in anthropogenic climate change to at least some degree.

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Breaking the data down further, the researchers observed that more than 80 percent of evangelical or fundamentalist Christian leaders believe that humans have contributed to climate change. Nonetheless, the authors also found that about half of the respondents have never discussed this issue with their congregants — and that only a quarter have mentioned it more than once or twice.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5236589-christian-leaders-climate-change-silence/

[cachukis]

1. Silence is a requisite of cults.