What Should the Relationship between religion and the environment be?
First, I must say religion and the environment goes hand & hand, or together. God created the Heavens and the Earth; therefore, to be religious, you must respect the environment that our Heavenly father blessed us with. After viewing the video of Dr. Grim and Dr. Tucker, the co-directors of the Yale University forum on Religion and Ecology, I realized that both of the educated individuals believed science and humanities (prime example: religion) will save the current generation, and will continue to save future generations. Earth is a beautiful place that stores all of our lives, so why not take care of it? Why pollute it? Why create adversities for your future children, grandchildren, great-grand children, among others? Why upset our God?
With the help of scientist and humanity people, they can work together to discover new innovations, ideas, creations that will provide help for global crisis, such as climate change (global warming), including many other highly important things that are affecting us for the worst. I agree with their ethics, but I don't agree with a statement made by Dr. Tucker on that, "the bible should be re-written." I feel as though no one is worthy enough to re-write any verse of the bible, period. Respect both, respect God, and the creations that we have be so fortunate to have.
I guess you can say I'm sort of biased, its' because I am a true believer in Christ.
I agree with you completely. I do not think we should destroy a world that God has made. He obviously made it for a reason and it was not for us to destroy it. We should try to preserve our earth and its resources. I believe religion and the environment go hand and hand.
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