Re: Harvard Crimson: Requiem for Environmentalism and Earth Day

In my 2003 book The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross I quoted the passage of Limbaugh's that's given below & then commented as follows:

"This sounds like a call for a humble attitude toward the creator, and we have to agree that sometimes the claims of environmental doomsayers have been overstated. But "the Lord" seems here to be a creator who will simply keep nature working the way we want it to. This is quite different from the biblical picture of the God who could destroy temple and kingship and still be faithful to the covenant. It is the view of the false prophets described by Sanders in a passage cited earlier, the view of "normal folk, in their right minds, [who] know that hope is in having things turn out the way they think they should - by maintaining their view of life without let, threat, or hindrance. And normal folk believe in a god who will simply make things turn out that way." [James A. Sanders, Torah and Canon (Fortress, Philadelphia, 1972), p.87]."

I'd also note that I've heard Limbaugh tell his radio audience that, contrary to suggestions that they should reduce gasoline consumption, "Folks, you don't have to change your lifestyle." The New Testament, of course, calls not just for changes in lifestyle but for changed lives.

Shalom
George
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  From: Janice Matchett
  To: Rich Blinne
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   Excerpted from pages 152-168 - Chapter 15 entitled, "Sorry, But The Earth Is Not Fragile" in his 1992 book, "The Way Things Ought to Be"

  "My views on the environment are rooted in my belief in Creation. I don't believe that life on earth began spontaneously or as a result of some haphazard, random selection process; nor do I believe that nature is oh-so-precariously balanced. I don't believe that earth and her ecosystem are fragile, as many radical environmentalists do. They think that man can come along, all by himself, and change everything for the worse; that after hundreds of millions of years, the last two generations of human existence are going to destroy the planet. Who do they think they are?

  I resent the presumptuous view of man and his works. I refuse to believe that people, who are themselves the result of Creation, can destroy the most magnificent creation of the entire universe.
Received on Tue Apr 25 18:37:44 2006