Comments on: LGBT Adults Go Green, Believe in Global Warming, Know Children are Our Future

By: Gena

Gena — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:28:02 +0000

Liberal Christian circles (e.g. Presbyterians, the Christian Reformed Church, lefty Mennonites, etc.) make a very (VERY) big deal (and wonderfully so) over what they call creation stewardship. The deal being that God didn’t put people on this earth to fuck it up OR to lord over creation, but instead to care for creation. To act with love, mercy, and justice towards ALL of creation. Some of the “greenest” people I know are committed to their environmental stewardship because they love Jesus first and for them environmentalism is just a natural result of that love/commitment.

Now, I used to fight tooth and nail with those same friends over whether or not it was just as good to love the earth for it’s own sake/for future generation’s sake, as opposed to loving it for God’s sake, their argument being that environmentalism without God is not as good/pure as environmentalism with God. And we did really argue and often just had to agree to disagree.

But just as often as I once found myself arguing with my Jesus friends about how my reasons for/approach to environmentalism was as equally valid as their own, I now find myself arguing with my non-Jesus (excuse the labels, for now) friends about how the Jesus-people’s reasons for/approach to environmental goodness is equally valid as their own, as we’re all just trying to get the job done here and reasons are reasons but actions of love are actions of love and the latter is always just a little bit more important.

LONG story short, I do agree. You cannot judge the good, it’s all AWESOME.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:22 +0000

I don’t get why these two are arguing about it in the first place. I mean, to each his own right? Some people prefer calls and some prefer texts. There’s really only a few situations that would actually be inappropriate to do one versus the other. Like you wouldn’t text some one that their mom just died and you wouldn’t call to say OMG! LOL!

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:40:18 +0000

Can our care packages have cookies?

By: Intern Rachel

Intern Rachel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:39:08 +0000

That is actually an excellent idea, can we make it real please

By: riese

riese — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:18:18 +0000

wow … and the walls come crumbling down

By: riese

riese — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:01:54 +0000

If they’re taking care of the Earth God gave us, that’s pretty much okay with me — any force used for good and not evil is awesome

By: riese

riese — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:19:01 +0000

you lucked out

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:51:56 +0000

hahahaha we had a pamphlet in my Born AGain church and my friends would take them and then laugh and laugh. It was about dinosaurs. I can’t remember what they taught me about dinosaurs, but it was something supercrazystrange.

By: BB

BB — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:13 +0000

rough day for scientology… they just got served a $900,000 fine
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/europe/28france.html?_r=1&ref=world
…maybe Tom Cruise will have to do another Mission Impossible. L. Ron would have a shit fit if he heard about this.

By: Intern Rachel

Intern Rachel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:17 +0000

I read an article about this once! Apparently there’s a whole conservation movement in evangelical circles; maybe not a very big one, but at least some people who think that environmental consciousness is like a duty to take care of the Earth God gave us. It is a pretty ok idea I think, and pretty interesting!