Christians Warned About Participating In the Ice-Bucket Challenge

On Sunday night evangelist and megachurch pastor Greg Laurie joined the ranks of people who have accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Abortion opponents are encouraging conservative Christians to chill out before taking the Ice Bucket Challenge plunge.

As of Friday, Aug, 22, the ALS Association has received $53.3 million in donations — compared to $2.2 million during the same time period last year — thanks to the viral phenomenon where people get doused with buckets of ice water on video, post the video to social media and challenge others to do the same.

It’s all in the name of raising awareness about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative condition best known for killing New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig in 1941, with lesser-known sufferers including Baptist scholar William Hull, who battled the disease six years before succumbing in December 2013.

Numerous high profile celebrities have taken the challenge, including a few religious leaders, including T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen and former Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham.

Recently, however, abortion foes like Patheos blogger Father Michael Duffy, a priest for the Diocese of Rockville Center in Long Island, N.Y.; the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and anti-abortion activist Lila Rose raised moral objections over the ALS Association’s support for embryonic stem cell research.

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SOURCE: Associated Baptist Press
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