Good Christians should trash the environment?

OTOH, one of the writers whose blog I follow says that today, the church kitty-corner to them elected to do a service project by helping landscape their front yard. Their pastor believes in demonstrating faith and charity, rather than simply talking about it, and these folks happened to be the lucky recipients. That's the type of Christianity that I can get behind. Unfortunately, it seems whoever-this-is would claim this is the wrong type of Christianity. Bleah.
 
I sometimes think that evangelical, or at least, fundamentalist, Christianity is nothing more than a shill for radical conservative politicians, those who want to repeal all environmental legislation, along with medicare and Social Security.
 
tsig said:
That's why He gave us armies.

The good Lord says,"Buy what you can, steal what you must, I the Lord have commanded you this".
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"And now a reading from the book of armaments."

Steve S
 
JoeBentley said:
John Shimkus, (R-Illinois) speaking before the House Energy Subcommittee in March, 2009.

"'I believe that is the infallible word of God, and that's the way it is going to be for his creation. 'The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood."
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They're constantly trying to equate global warming with the end of the world. The earth survived the Permian and K-T extinction events. It will survive global warming. The question is how it will affect us humans.

Steve S
 
Travis said:
We have a local minister who broadcasts Sunday messages. Today's was an interesting one that I heard over the radio while in the hardware store. Apparently good Christians are not supposed to care about the environment.
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That line of thinking also puts him at odds with the Bible at Revelation 11:18:
"The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, - both great and small - and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
 
phelix said:
If the end of the world is just around the corner, what motivation is there to build a better long term society?
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Yet christians have been saying this for 2000 years. Wasn't that supposed to happen in the first century AD?
 
[*]God favors America that's why we're the richest country



And you owe china How Much ????
 
Travis said:
We have a local minister who broadcasts Sunday messages. Today's was an interesting one that I heard over the radio while in the hardware store. Apparently good Christians are not supposed to care about the environment.

Here's his logic:

[*]God favors America that's why we're the richest country
[*]God wants American's to use up his bounty because:

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  • haaha maybe He'll let it rain gold bars so that America can pay off its Debts :D
 
Here's Rev. John MacArthur's view on the subject (www.oneplace.com/.../evangelicalism-and-the-environmental-movement- 10115.html -):

So I believe we are charged to treat responsibly all the wonderful resources God has given us. But that, in fact, has very little to do with the environmental movement. The environmental movement is consumed with trying to preserve the planet forever. But we know that isn't in God's plan.
The earth we inhabit is not a permanent planet. It is, frankly, a disposable planet - it is going to have a very short life. It's been around six thousand years or so - that's all - and it may last a few thousand more. And then the Lord is going to destroy it.
I've told environmentalists that if they think humanity is wrecking the planet, wait until they see what Jesus does to it. Peter says God is going to literally turn it in on itself in an atomic implosion so that the whole universe goes out of existence (2 Peter 3:7-13).

It's interesting to note that his young earth creationism, combined with his apocalyptic views, color his effectively anti-environmental stance.
 
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It's like they're playing a game of Civilization where you're only so many turns away from winning, at which point the game will end and whatever shortcomings your civilization and game world suffers from are irrelevant. "No point in trying to redeem the unhealth in my cities, the game says we're only five turns away from the game ending and we need to focus on getting our score as high as possible so we can win this Time victory!".

I know (or rather, hope) there aren't too many people like this, but it's scary nonetheless.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
It's like they're playing a game of Civilization where you're only so many turns away from winning, at which point the game will end and whatever shortcomings your civilization and game world suffers from are irrelevant. "No point in trying to redeem the unhealth in my cities, the game says we're only five turns away from the game ending and we need to focus on getting our score as high as possible so we can win this Time victory!".

I know (or rather, hope) there aren't too many people like this, but it's scary nonetheless.
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You've got it. The same mind set that says there's no point in protecting the environment because Jesus is coming back soon can just as well be used to argue against spending any revenues on any social concern, whether it's for summer youth programs, immunization of school children against mumps, measles, polio, etc., or even repairing highways.
 
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