Evangelicals and Creation Care
from today's Jim Wallis and Friends God's Politics blog on Beliefnet (http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics), entry by Jim Rice: David Gushee thinks he understands why some conservative evangelicals have opposed "creation care" (i.e., taking care of the environment). He writes: ... it seems to me that those who resist creation care sometimes are motivated by a misreading of scripture. I have been in conversations where people suggest that stewardship primarily means mastery of earth to use it as we please or need; or that human beings do not have the power to do real harm to creation; or that God has promised ever since Noah never to allow humans to do serious harm to creation; or that the earth will be destroyed by fire anyway, and soon, so what we do now to the earth isn’t really all that significant. He goes on to name three other factors that have led to this conservative opposition to protecting our earth: a "profound mishandling of science," an ...