Presbyterians were a driving force behind global warming and even contraception

April 16, 3:28 PMTampa Presbyterian ExaminerAndrew Otero

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AP Photo/Overpopulation is an anti-baby agenda

Of course this title is slightly distorted for reasons of provocation, but the connection is real:
In 1965 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (PC-USA) clamored to the government about the grave danger posed by inexorable population growth. Our national government complied by commissioning a study by various experts, complete with suggestions for retarding national population growth in the interest of preserving national security and a high standard of American living. The resultant study and suggestions arrived on President Richard Nixon's desk in the early 1970s, and he was prepared to enforce the scientific findings and solutions which included the authorized encouragement of birth control and the authorized mandate for family-size limits. He was dissuaded only by the prospect of entering a re-election bid in 1973 without the support of the Catholic Church, who maintained a staunch sacerdotal stance against the birth control pill which was introduced in 1960. Nixon won a second presidential term, and the findings - known as the NSSM 200 (National Security Study Memorandum) - were suppressed but not forgotten. The incorrigible cry in favor of global warming adjustments is just the third millennium's version of a solution to ostensible overpopulation.

The Presbyterian Church in question here is the infamous denomination that has entertained women and homosexuals in its pulpits; the denomination that spawned modern Presbyterian orthodoxy as a reaction to its own egregious heresies. The PC-USA predicted every physical and spiritual danger as a result of burgeoning global populations because it was interested in preserving a halcyon existence characterized by minimal human impact. The same arguments are reflected today for mitigating carbon footprints and “man-made global warming.” After all, an overcrowded planet is naturally the cause of an over-warmed planet.

Most distressing is that a Protestant group stirred the diabolical imagination of government, and set in motion the bureaucratic ambition to make “contraception available for all, including minors, at government expense if need be; abortion for all who want it, at government expense if necessary” (Rockefeller Commission Report, Population and the American Future). Most clear is that overpopulation is a myth because the population of the United States presently occupies only five percent of the available land in the country. Most shameful is that the Catholic Church posed a formidable (even if politically motivated) defense against the flood of totalitarian measures in the interest of population control that were waiting to drown the American people. Most damnable is the fact that the related ideas of overpopulation and global warming, complete with government solutions to control them, are such large-scale matters that omniscience is required to embrace and address them. These are concerns that belong to God alone – the proper operating temperature of the entire earth, and how many people should exist on it.

Creator God is directly challenged by the suppositions of a crowded planet, and his earliest law-word is directly defied when the solutions that are posed undermine the command to be fruitful and multiply the divine image over the face of the earth. Actions in favor of thwarting the ostensible threat of global warming also assume a God-like function, or more precisely – a Satan-like function – when they suggest that the presence of humans is inimical to the preservation of the God-created planet. Even if a heretical strand of Presbyterianism, it is shameful that the Church had a part in these fundamental movements of national decadence. But there is hope.

If the Church, or a church, could exert such influence for ill (or for some good in the case of the Catholic Church), then surely it can work toward terrestrial renovation in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Orthodox Presbyterians and all God-fearing Christians properly submit to God’s mandates for the family and the earth, which means that we will work toward God’s intention to subdue and beautify the earth through his families. It is highly ironic that the followers of Satan think that they have the best answers to preserve the planet and provide for a secure human existence. It is instead only God’s works of providence – “his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing of all his creatures and all their actions” – which provide for our security and victory. The children of God respond with the Lord’s prayer – “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”