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Saturday, February 21, 2009
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LOL. You're right. That would be the best t-shirt ever. Awesome picture.
True environmental care is respect for God's handiwork, not a return to idolatry.
Stewardship is the recognition of humanity's high created position, not a pantheistic ruling out of our responsibility before God.
It also has nothing to do with pro-life advocacy.
I too, am a hard-core pro-life advocate. I am also a Christian. I think its interesting that you think someone like me can't be an environmentalist.
I agree with Dr DeYoung:
"Many people have been turned off to environmental issues by extremists.
Environmentalists often seem to have more concern for whales, snail darters, and owls than they do for people. Some of them try to make us feel guilty for being alive and using air.
Christians actually have special insight into this controversy. We know that the present world is temporary. The elements will someday melt with fervent heat (2 Peter 3:10, 12). Although this gives Christians perspective, it is certainly not a license to abuse the earth or to be arrogant toward it. Scripture gives us two specific commands in this regard:
(1) The first command, sometimes called the cultural mandate, is found in Genesis 1:28. "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it."
(2) A second biblical command appears in Genesis 2:15: "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."
- Dr. Donald DeYoung,Ph.D.
I find it very amusing, Holly, that you're reading so much into a simple t-shirt slogan.
If you cannot agree that *most* environmentalists *do* in fact have it backwards, focusing on saving the planet while most of them are pro-aborts, well, there really is nothing more we can say.
I never said we shouldn't be good stewards of the earth; I never said pro-lifers "cannot be environmentalists".
Your verses are true, but Jesus said the greatest commandment was to LOVE GOD, and the second greatest commandment was to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR (including the unborn). He never said love the earth.
People are eternal souls, not trees. Let's have a little perspective, shall we?
Thank you for enlightening me on your perspective. I apologize for reading into your fun with t-shirts.
You are right, we are called to Love God and Love our neighbor.
I do, however, want to correct you on one thing. I never said people were trees. That's downright absurd!
I believe you are passionate about the pro-life cause...and so I ask you, please stick to this cause and try not to put others and their causes down in the meantime.
While environmentalism may not be something you feel strongly about, it is how I make my living...while I also stand up for the lives of the undead and show Christian love (or attempt to).
Unless you know all environmentalists and can take a poll of their thoughts on abortion or stem cell research know that it is your job to show love.
We may not have to love the earth but we are to care for it.
Please accept an apology for over-commenting on your post. I don't know you and you obviously don't know me or any of my staff.
*unborn (not undead)
Hey, Holly, you're welcome to get your own blog, but this here is mine, see. And last I checked this still, in theory, is a free country.
You can disqualify yourself from the generality of a typical environmentalist, and in doing so, know that I am not referring to you. However, the "typical" environmentalist, is in fact a pro-abort. If you need statistics, go look them up yourself. Sounds like you're the one that needs to do the checking, not me.
I did not put any words in your "mouth" (as you did to me in your first comment). I didn't say "YOU THINK TREES ARE PEOPLE". Simply that trees (or insert your other favorite earthy item) don't have ETERNAL SOULS.
And what I mean by that is really quite simple to understand. We are to be good stewards of God's creation (which, again, I already stated); however God's ETERNAL creation --> PEOPLE, from conception to natural death, are our first and foremost responsibility.
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