Ever wonder?: Evangelicals v.s. the Environment

[AnnInLa]

An article from last year explains the views of different evangelical groups toward the environment, and their plans for America. What an interesting, eye-opening read!

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2004/10/27/scherer-christian/index.html

one paragraph: (but read the whole article)


"Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ," writes reconstructionist George Grant. Christian dominion will be achieved by ending the separation of church and state, replacing U.S. democracy with a theocracy ruled by Old Testament law, and cutting all government social programs, instead turning that work over to Christian churches. Reconstructionists also would abolish government regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. EPA, because they are a distraction from their goal of Christianizing America, and subsequently, the rest of the world. "World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish," says Grant. "We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less." Only when that conquest is complete can the Lord return.

[henrik larssonisking]

1. though i agree

with some of what is written, i think a lot of people misunderstand what the spreading of christianity is about. We are led to spread the word through our deeds and by example, its not meant to be spread by the sword, though many times in history this is the strategy that was used.

[lectrobyte]

3. Misunderstand? Perhaps. I've only learned to watch what they do, and

not what they say.

[LeftHander]

2. Agents of Satan at work...

Only when the world is rotting and putrid can the lord satan return...

Might as well spin them around and point to their own religion to show then that they are indeed not really "Jesus" people....they have been fooled by the liar...THE DEVIL!...


(that is if you really believe in all that stuff anyway...which I don't)

Fun to make the fundies spin by calling them Agents of Satan...

[enough]

4. Several years ago in the used-book bin at a thrift shop,

I found a book explaining in great detail how the teaching of "environmentalism" in schools is anti-Christian and must be stopped. The author seemed to equate the study of the environment with paganism or (gasp) "nature worship."

The book was also dead-set against any measures to limit population growth. The attitude seems to be that the earth BELONGS to the humans and the humans are supposed to use it up at will.


That Grist article is well worth the time to read the whole thing.

[blindpig]

5. what do you expect

from a belief system invented by a gang of hard scrabble desert patriarchs who fought the land daily for survival? For whom rendering every atom of benefit from the land was seen as necessary for the continuance of the tribe?

Seems like religions founded in more fertile climes are more Earth friendly. For that matter even Australian aboriginal peoples and First Nation peoples in America who lived in the desert live(d) with their habitat, didn't make it an enemy. Why is the Abrahamic tradition so screwed up regarding the environment?