| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Is it the responsibility of worshipers of god to protect the earth??? |
| Yes of course it is. |
|
70% |
[ 12 ] |
| No it is not |
|
17% |
[ 3 ] |
| Perhaps it is perhaps its not |
|
11% |
[ 2 ] |
|
| Total Votes : 17 |
|
| Author |
Message |
philosopherBoi
Phoenix
Joined: Aug 07, 2008
Age: 20
Posts: 1019
|
 Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: Duty |
 |
|
| I find it odd that religious people don't seem to want to protect the earth. If your god/goddess/gods made the earth then wouldn't it be insulting to your god to pollute the earth?? I mean after all the pollution is not only killing people it is also slowly killing the earth and all life. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Awesomelyglorious
Destroyer of worlds, reaver of souls
Joined: Dec 18, 2005
Posts: 6120
Location: United States
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Meh, the rapture's coming soon anyway. Besides, one of the names for the devil in Christianity is "the god of this world" 2 Cor 4:4, so if we argued from a Christian perspective, we aren't screwing over God so much as the devil. So, keep those SUVs up and running to fight Satan's evil!
(yes, I know, terrible theology, but all I care about is having a good time) |
|
| Back to top |
|
velodog
Gold Supporter
Joined: Mar 16, 2008
Posts: 1251
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| That seems like a rather broad generalization. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Averick
Calculateurre of Chaos
Joined: Mar 06, 2007
Age: 29
Posts: 2127
Location: in the trenches..
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
| You'd think, wouldn't ya? |
|
| Back to top |
|
Sand
Phoenix
Joined: Sep 16, 2007
Posts: 2035
Location: Finland
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| The Earth doesn't need protection. It doesn't give a damn if all life disappears and the planet turns into a desert like Mars or an acid atmosphere over an oven hot surface like Venus. But if humans want to protect themselves they have to be careful. So far they don't seem to care. |
|
| Back to top |
|
richardbenson
SITA
Joined: Oct 31, 2006
Age: 28
Posts: 8591
Location: plastic makes it possible
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| jesus is just gonna blow up the earth anyways to make a new one so why protect it |
|
| Back to top |
|
slowmutant
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 14, 2008
Age: 29
Posts: 8640
Location: Ontario, Canada
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The Earth needs protection, certainly. The responsibility of good stewardship lies on us, humankind. Man is the only species from whose extinction every other would benefit.
_________________
Behold, I stand at the door and knock ... |
|
| Back to top |
|
slowmutant
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 14, 2008
Age: 29
Posts: 8640
Location: Ontario, Canada
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| richardbenson wrote: | | jesus is just gonna blow up the earth anyways to make a new one so why protect it |
Jesus will make the Earth anew upon His return. A New Earth, not a blown-up Earth. This degree of apathy is unattractive.
_________________
Behold, I stand at the door and knock ... |
|
| Back to top |
|
Orwell
Outer Party Member
Joined: Aug 09, 2007
Age: 19
Posts: 4242
Location: Room 101
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and not an earthly one. The Earth is transitory, but the Kingdom of God is eternal.
_________________
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH |
|
| Back to top |
|
ToadOfSteel
Extremist Moderate
Joined: Sep 24, 2007
Age: 20
Posts: 2819
Location: New Jersey
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| slowmutant wrote: | | The Earth needs protection, certainly. The responsibility of good stewardship lies on us, humankind. Man is the only species from whose extinction every other would benefit. |
QFT. God put man on the earth to care for it, not to trash it. He needs to see our responsibility in taking care of something as "transitory" as the Earth before being given the responsibility to do so in a place like heaven... Earth is basically God's "sandbox"... |
|
| Back to top |
|
nutbag
Moofy Prime
Joined: Jan 28, 2007
Posts: 3039
Location: Arizona
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Religious Environmentslism! Yeaaaaaaaaaa! AlGore is Jesus second coming! All bow down.
Moronic nonsensical orthodoxy. I didnt expect the Spanish Inquisition.
_________________
Who is John Galt?
Still Moofy after all these years
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion
cynicism occurs immediately upon pressing your brain's start button |
|
| Back to top |
|
techstepgenr8tion
cleveland audio assassin
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
Age: 29
Posts: 5670
Location: That's for me to know and for you to find out.
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| With the question above - as broadly as you stated it - I don't think anyone would disagree. Hope that's not a logic thermometer for a more intricate issue because it won't work. |
|
| Back to top |
|
greenblue
¸.·´´¯`··.¸.·´
Joined: Mar 26, 2007
Posts: 7869
Location: Home
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| slowmutant wrote: | | The Earth needs protection, certainly. The responsibility of good stewardship lies on us, humankind. Man is the only species from whose extinction every other would benefit. |
Animals, plants, and the earth itself will benefit from human extinction.
_________________
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~Einstein. |
|
| Back to top |
|
greenblue
¸.·´´¯`··.¸.·´
Joined: Mar 26, 2007
Posts: 7869
Location: Home
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| richardbenson wrote: | | jesus is just gonna blow up the earth anyways to make a new one so why protect it |
That might be the thinking of few fundies I would assume, I can see one firmly believing in the second coming of Christ, then seeing no point in protecting the earth anyway, according to the belief, that kind of thinking I believe it can be dangerous, if everybody would share that kind of thinking, however, I thank God that not all think that way.
_________________
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~Einstein. |
|
| Back to top |
|
slowmutant
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 14, 2008
Age: 29
Posts: 8640
Location: Ontario, Canada
|
| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Yes, and look what we've done to animals, plants and the Earth. So far we have been unbelievably poor stewards. Stewardship, as you know, is not ownership. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
