allAfrica.com headlines a BBC survey of Nigerians who think climate change is being caused by a vengeful God.
The findings of the BBC survey fitted into the 'God-frame' thinking. Religious leaders and groups as well as local people said since change in the whether pattern had been ordained. The logic of what had been planned and set on course by divine agency naturally led to an iron-cast fatalism. People saw themselves as powerlessness and could do little or nothing to change events.
The article ties this thinking to how "primitive religous culture" looks at all weather phenomena - sun gods, harvest/rain gods, and the like. Interesting enough.
For the Christian it raises this question: If God indeed controls the climate is it that far-fetched to think this is possible? I mean, He's done stuff like this before, like the drought in 1 Kings 17-18.
Couple probs with this. First, the problem was not CO2, but Baal worship. Second, the solution is prayer and repentence, not a government response. And third, the real savior of mankind is not mankind at all, but God.
I don't exactly know how the IPCC would write that up.
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