Comments on: Reaching Beyond the Choir in Climate Change Communication http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/08/11/reaching-beyond-the-choir/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Susan Anderson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/08/11/reaching-beyond-the-choir/#comment-66960 Susan Anderson Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:36:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=11548#comment-66960 While I enjoy your writing and agree with the trend in your thinking, here you made a couple of strange assumptions. 1. I think you will find there are quite a few Christians among scientists. 2. Stewardship is an old, not a new, idea. Oddly, being a central part of Christianity, it has fallen off the map but any traditional Christian is well aware of it, as is anyone who actually reads and studies the Bible. Your way of talking about this indicates you are unfamiliar with the liberal side of Christianity, which has been around for a long time and used to be much more normal, given the way it follows through on what should be the central focus based on what evidence is available. While I enjoy your writing and agree with the trend in your thinking, here you made a couple of strange assumptions.

1. I think you will find there are quite a few Christians among scientists.

2. Stewardship is an old, not a new, idea. Oddly, being a central part of Christianity, it has fallen off the map but any traditional Christian is well aware of it, as is anyone who actually reads and studies the Bible.

Your way of talking about this indicates you are unfamiliar with the liberal side of Christianity, which has been around for a long time and used to be much more normal, given the way it follows through on what should be the central focus based on what evidence is available.

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