The polluting industry is losing is exploitative grip on the American religious landscape. Now it's almost impossible to fail to find an article each week on the greening of God. In fact, the dog bites man story is becoming "evangelicals care for creation."

For example, from the Associated Press:

The tall, tan pastor stood at the pulpit of his Baptist church on a recent Sunday morning, cleared his throat, and nervously proclaimed the following:

"We can embrace God and Scripture and science together. And it's enough to say when they agree - and sometimes they do - we should embrace it. And they agree that our Earth cannot last forever. And that we are charged with the responsibility of taking care of it."

With that, there was another rustle in the crowd. And Peachtree Baptist Church had opened its two-month Sunday sermon series on the environment.

This is evident in "true conservative" Bob Novak's recent column attacking GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee clearly departs from the mainstream of the conservative movement in his confusion of "growth" with "greed." Such ad hominem attacks are part of his intuitive response to criticism from the Club for Growth. . . . On "Fox News Sunday" on Nov. 18, he called the "tactics" of the Club for Growth "some of the most despicable in politics today. It's why I love to call them the Club for Greed. . ."

Never one to shed light basic human morality, Novak continues to split "economic conservative" from scripture:

But Huckabee simply does not fit within normal boundaries of economic conservatism, such as when he criticized President Bush's veto of a Democratic expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Calling global warming a "moral issue" mandating "a biblical duty" to prevent climate change, he has endorsed a cap-and-trade system that is anathema to the free market.

It's becoming clear that a split is coming, with the godly moving away from the greedy "conservatives" and joining the growing club for a green future.