Does the Bible really say that global warming will make the Earth ‘vomit us out’? | Andrew Brown
by Andrew Brown from on (#EMYP)
A clergyman's borrowed warning of ecological doom reminds me that theology can be flexible enough to fit many times and places
My ears pricked up in the Church of England's global warming debate when a clergyman in a brightly coloured shirt announced that the Earth would "vomit us out" because we had defiled it. People should say more of this kind of thing at synod. They should say more of this in almost all dull meetings. Certainly, it is an arresting figure of ecological doom.
The speaker, Richard Burridge, the dean of Kings College London, went on to describe the form this vomiting out would take: "God says: 'I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits."
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