God Blessed America Already
Why isn’t the environment considered sacred? After all, isn’t nature the most fundamental way God has blessed us? He didn’t make man first for a reason, right? We can’t live without a healthy earth, don’t you agree?
3/18/2005
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Sweetest Robin, I don’t know who told you that the earth is not sacred but the church I was raised in would most likely tell you it wasn’t. There are different definitions of sacred to different people but you have to figure also that most people that label themselves Christians are not. It is a religion and not a relationship with the creator for them. If they truly loved Him, they would love and cherish what he gave us all and try to carefully and fearfully manage it instead of try to just conquer and pervert it. The bible talks about this how many of these peoplw will say to God on judgement day that they did great works and whatnot in His name and he will tell them to go to hell leterally because He never knew them. For most people chuch is a cult, a country club, they don’t know why they beleive or how they can truely know how they can know it is all real. They are living in the Matrix and are too shallow to open their minds up to other possibilities. They aren’t truly even alive at heart, just zombies. I have put my hands in the nail prints so to speak and know what is real, but unless people really want to know and ask, they won’t. The native americans I think probably had the best attitudes toward the earth. I am a horticulture major and all the girls are either lesbians or express a lot of anger toward christians, I don’t know how you feel about them but I want you to know that your creator loves you and I love you. I am in Iraq right now and have a garden going of my different sacred herbs and vegetables and am happy to know what is true and at least have my honor here. I am a virgin for example because I have always wanted not to hurt a girl or get spiritually or emotionally attached until I am married to her but will go out and do things that mans laws and norms say isn’t ok. I would rather die here with my boots on, on my feet, guns blazing, soul intact, in a blaze of glory than offend this creator by hurting or perverting His children and creations. I guess some people would call me a Christian but I can hardly go to churches anymore or deal with these “Christians”. So I challenge you to ask yourself what you know to be true, to ask yourself all the questions instead of asking the world of confused hurt, brainwashed people at large. I hope you find some peace and your center. I regret that I can’t be there to give you a hug, take you out to eat, make you some tea, talk about it, help you with whatever you need. Perhaps I should just become a hermit after this war and put all this maddness of people behind me. I hope you have a great day though and find a quiet place to think about all this. Love, Carl
Comment by Carl Timmons — 3/19/2005 @ 5:29 pm
The environment should be considered sacred as it is given by God
to man’s stewardship. We shouldn’t try protecting it to our own
detriment however. But we should make reasonable compromise to
preserve it. This is a problem with republicans, not Christianity.
Comment by James — 3/21/2005 @ 3:58 am
To James: Part of my point with this site is to try to differentiate between Christians and republicans. My new question for you is “How can protecting the environment ever be to our own detriment?”
To Carl: Thanks for your encouraging words. To you I ask “How has such an enlightened soul found himself in such an unholy situation?” Be safe, my friend.
Comment by Rob — 3/21/2005 @ 9:31 am
It’s terrible. I think we are truly screwing up the environment. People first, nature last. Aren’t WE nature? I think some of this evil doing polluting does have a Christian beginning, that with God and Adam having reign in the garden…and I’m not even Lesbian. Just another person who thinks.
Comment by Les — 3/21/2005 @ 7:31 pm
Many Christians do not pay any more attention to the issues they are debating than they do to the scrpitures they quote. They follow plain and simple. A Christian is voting for someone who SAYS they are another Christian and claims to vote as they would. They do not really follow up or determine their opinion on most issues except the few that the church leaders preach the loudest about. Even on most of these issues they listen to their religous leaders opinion on this more so than fact or their own freedom of thought. They truly believe what they are led to believe not anything they have carefully considered. All of this is in general, some Christians I am sure think about things with an open mind, but they are not the norm and they are often the ones who think differently than the general Christian populace. In my eye however, I do not see how anyone can be Christian or religous without being led instead of thinking and logically determining conclusions based on fact.
Comment by Jay — 3/26/2005 @ 7:28 pm
The environment is a vague issue here, the topic is divided into many different policies that need to be looked individually and seperate from each other. Most of the enviromental issues today are alarmist concepts with no proof that even suggests the ‘possible’ outcomes they warn about. Christians rarely pay attention to this issue however, they are more concerned with interfering in peoples rights to meet their agenda of control & oppression.
Comment by Jay — 3/26/2005 @ 7:33 pm
The environment is one of the few things that is not vague. It is everywhere, and without it we cannot survive. Oil is finite, energy is not. It goes on, with or without humans. The cherry is nothing without the sundae.
The challenge is to co-exist, not destroy. Destruction, extinction, these are forever things. We are kidding ourselves if we think we are above that. The pride before the fall, my friends.
Comment by Rob — 4/3/2005 @ 10:31 pm
God bless America…and no one else! Why is it that one often never hears God
bless x? Where x is a country other than the America.
Comment by D styles — 4/4/2005 @ 6:30 pm
Hmmm… I stumbled across this site while surfing for Christian organic gardening sites. Allow me to state that there were seven previous google pages with multiple sites promoting sound environmental actions and hosted by a variety of Christian religous groups.
In my own experiance I have found that stereotypes do not hold up. Companies which create environmental disasters are not exclusively or even predominantly Christian, nor are they even exclusively Republican.
I am a member of several gardening groups in which I am sometimes the only Christian. Surprisingly I am often meet with what I consider to be a remarkable ammount of resistance to wholisitc orcanic methods and ideals from the very people (Democratic, young, liberal, vegan, wiccan, etc) whom stereotype would lead me to believe are practicing environmentally sound principles and condemming me for not doing so. And they talk that talk, as though they are wonderful environmentalists and all the while they use chemical fertalizers which salinate the soils, chop down trees which spoilt the view from the curb, spray pestacides which pollute our water, etc.
Are thier words wothr more than my actions?
There is a generally accepted idea that Christians are worse stewards of our world than non-Christians, whoever is responsible for starting and perpetuating this has alot to answer for, in my opinion. It is simply not true.
In my neighborhood there are two other families who garden on a similar scale (hobby farm) one is athiest (bitter ex-Catholic) and one is agnostic (too busy living to worry about that matter) and then myself (Christian). I am the only one practicing organic methods, the only one petitioning to clean the streams and run off areas, the only one speaking out about our native species, the only one planting wildlife cover and providing santuary for birds and other animals living in or migrating through our area. So to be lumped by religous inclination into a group labled as poor caretakers of our earth seems manifestly unfair to me.
Comment by Pantoufle — 4/10/2005 @ 9:47 am