The Church of England has worked itself up into an interesting discussion on God, his holy planet, and fracking.
It's hard to figure how you'd make this discussion work. The idea laid out by the Church of England....is that God has given us a planet with limited resources, and we should not destroy the work of God.....in his creation of this planet.
Naturally.....fracking is the work of the devil (not said but you can't avoid missing that connection).
When you go over to their site....there's an entire page where the ministers of the church have written up a simplified version of what fracking is about and how it does harm. At one point, they note reports of fracking contaminating US wells....yet there's isn't one substantiated case where this has ever been proven and no court has ever acknowledged this and given a claim to anyone.
The ministers then go to note pollution created by transport trucks involved in fracking, and the leaking of storage tanks on fracking sites. Again, no state or federal authority has ever identified leaking tanks that were connected to fracking sites. As for the pollution of transport trucks? Well....you could make the case that people driving their cars to a church service.....create as much or more pollution.
I looked over the Church of England's web site. There's a flurry of activity connected to oil, natural gas, global warming, global cooling, and climate change.
Naturally, all of these issues relate to man's own fault. If God wanted the Earth to heat up....he'd just make it happen, without the help of man. If God wanted to chill the Earth....he'd just wave a hand and make it happen....without the aide of man. If God wanted the fracking oil to special and precious, and never be used.....God probably would have dumped all this specially blessed oil a great deal deeper and made fracking a terrible pain.
It would seem that souls and blessings....come second to the Church of England....where they worry a bit on man, science, and climate episodes. Would they pray to God to stop global warming? My humble guess is no. Would they pray to God to push the holy fracking oil deeper into the Earth to prevent man from using it? No....I doubt it. Would they pray that God lays down a mighty tidal wave to wash away all of the whale hunter ships from Japan? Well....no.
I'm not sure what the ministers for the Church of England really pray for. And I'm probably going out on the limb for this comment....but I doubt if they are capable of praying for much...except for the health of their membership.....ever dwindling each and every year. Dying off? Well....due to climate change and some newly discovered suffering called "age-change".....it is drastically affecting the church.
Yes, age-change is hurting the world and we probably need to elevate it to a worldly problem. And sadly, it was probably the one thing that God just figured was right to inject into our society. Fracking? Well....if you ask me.....God must have handed it down to the right guys....and has no intention of interfering.
