'Absolute theological bankruptcy': Union Theological Seminary students confess climate sins to plants

[rambo919]

'Absolute theological bankruptcy': Union Theological Seminary students confess climate sins to plants

Students at Union Theological Seminary prayed to a display of plants set up in the chapel of the school, prompting the institution to issue a statement explaining the practice as many on social media mocked them.

"Today in chapel, we confessed to plants," the nation's oldest independent seminary declared Tuesday on Twitter. "Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?"

Right..... well..... no comment.

 

[konfab]

All they would need to do is set said plants on fire and it would be completely legitimate from a biblical point of view.

But as with most of these things, going through the motion of explaining what you have done wrong is probably quite good for people. It is like explaining a coding problem to a rubber duck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

also:
at least the plants are real.

 

[Cray]

Perhaps they are trying to prevent "The Happening"....

 

[konfab]

"We are in the throes of a climate emergency, a crisis created by humanity's arrogance, our disregard for Creation," the statement continued. "Far too often, we see the natural world only as resources to be extracted for our use, not divinely created in their own right—worthy of honor, thanks and care. We need to unlearn habits of sin and death. And part of that work must be building new bridges to the natural world. And that means creating new spiritual and intellectual frameworks by which we understand and relate to the plants and animals with whom we share the planet."

Leftist Christians...

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

what happened to not praying to idols?!?