Did you know that atheists are to be blamed for the world’s environmental problems? I didn’t until I read this speech by the Pope:
“The earth is a precious gift of the Creator, who has designed its intrinsic order, thus giving us guidelines to which we must hold ourselves as stewards of his creation. From this awareness, the Church considers questions linked to the environment and its safeguarding as profoundly linked with the topic of integral human development….Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where is existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the “final authority,” and the objective of existence is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible.“
“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” – Genesis 1 King James Bible
Now I am confused…If the Lord told the first man and woman he created to rule over every living creature on Earth, then how are the atheists responsible for the environmental problems we are facing today? I don’t know about you but I have met many Christians who are not bothered about the environment and similarly have met many atheists who are…
Don’t these accusations of materialism seem somewhat hollow coming from an egotistical man who wears expensive jewellery, lives an isolated life with hundreds of servants and assisstants in a giagantic gold gilded palace and refuses to sanction contraception that would help curb overpopulation and thereby curb environmental degradation?
My reply to the Pope : Why bother about the environment since Judgment Day is upon us anyway? We might as well use up what we can while we can; God will set things right…
Ramblings By Bones 