From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 16:39:14 EST
Glenn Morton wrote:
>
> It started out as a stewardship of the earth issue for me about 3 years ago.
> All I was doing was updating where things stood. Sorry if you think it
> doesn't belong here. If others feel the same, I will cease and desist.
This topic definitely _does_ belong here. I'm letting getting into it here
because I've been away at a consultation on the Christianity & the environment held by
the ELCA on the 10th anniversary of that church body's social statement "Caring for
Creation." You can find that at www.elca.org/dcs/environment.html.
As a member of the task force that drafted that statement I was asked to be on a
panel to speak about the way things have changed over the past 10 years. I focussed my
remarks on one troublesome change, the fact that _some_ (I emphasize some, not all)
conservative Evangelicals are opposed to serious environmental protection & now are in
positions of political power, influencing the generally bad environmental policies of
the present US administration. I dealt with this concern in more detail in an article
in the online Journal of Lutheran Ethics for Sept. 2003 which can be found at
http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/dcs/jle/article.asp?aid=97 .
This ties in with another topic we've discussed frequently here. Christian
opposition to environmentalism is often connected with rejection of evolution & YEC
views. When we talk (as we have here) about the dangers of those views we ought to take
their "environmental impact" into account. In some ways that poses a more immediate
threat than do theoretical ideas about evolution or ID.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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