If we believe that God is the source of all that is, then we must honor the entirety of God’s creation. To foul our nest with pollutants that destroy the various forms of life cannot be a faithful response to the wonder of creation.
Early in its history, Christianity was corrupted with an anti-materialism, anti-body, anti-flesh and anti-world mentality. This produced such developments as the rise of monasticism, the decision to identify sexlessness with holiness, the extolling of celibacy and virginity and the sense that the earth was something to be conquered and subdued.
We reap the whirlwind of those developments in so many of the current conflicts within Christianity today. Those decisions also lie at the center of global warming.
Yes, of course, living in harmony with all life is a virtue for Christians, one that it is high time we took seriously.
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