Comments on: The Animals Know It’s Happening http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/22/the-animals-know-its-happening/ A blog on my latest adventures, pictures, and travels Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:23:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jay http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/22/the-animals-know-its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Jay Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:42:07 +0000 http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/22/the-animals-know-its-happening/#comment-343 Thanks for the link Mitch. When talking about environmental problems, I'll be the first to admit that it's difficult to sound cheerful. Like you, I'm very glad that Christians are starting to have some convictions on these issues. I do think we are but a small ripple in a large sea of apathy... To be honest, it's something I just can't understand. Concern for the environment should be the perfect compliment to throwing off the chains of materialism. Yet in the culture you and I grew up in, people somehow seem to leave their faith at home when visiting the car lot to buy a hummer. You show me a literal six-day creationist, and that should be the very essence of a person that's fiercely conservationist. Yet somehow, I and the rest of the world view those as totally contradictory as Christians have dropped the ball. Enough ranting. Like you, I'm seeing ever so small but very positive steps. And while the rest of the world at our little Christian college bows to the alter of conspicuous consumption, there are now lots of people who connect the issue to their faith. And this is a change from the past, and a change for the better. Thanks for the link Mitch. When talking about environmental problems, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s difficult to sound cheerful.

Like you, I’m very glad that Christians are starting to have some convictions on these issues. I do think we are but a small ripple in a large sea of apathy… To be honest, it’s something I just can’t understand.

Concern for the environment should be the perfect compliment to throwing off the chains of materialism. Yet in the culture you and I grew up in, people somehow seem to leave their faith at home when visiting the car lot to buy a hummer.

You show me a literal six-day creationist, and that should be the very essence of a person that’s fiercely conservationist. Yet somehow, I and the rest of the world view those as totally contradictory as Christians have dropped the ball.

Enough ranting. Like you, I’m seeing ever so small but very positive steps. And while the rest of the world at our little Christian college bows to the alter of conspicuous consumption, there are now lots of people who connect the issue to their faith. And this is a change from the past, and a change for the better.

]]> By: mitch http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/22/the-animals-know-its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-341 mitch Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:14:35 +0000 http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/22/the-animals-know-its-happening/#comment-341 Hey Jay. I hope you're doing well. Thanks for sharing the info about global warming. That and the other ways we are destroying this earth disturb me. But, there are some good things happening among us churched folks, even specifically the Churches of Christ. Check out the following article, "Evangelicals embrace 'creation care' of God's green earth," which mentions Scott Freeman, a minister at the Northside Church of Christ in Waco... http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/living/religion/14125790.htm Hey Jay. I hope you’re doing well. Thanks for sharing the info about global warming. That and the other ways we are destroying this earth disturb me. But, there are some good things happening among us churched folks, even specifically the Churches of Christ. Check out the following article, “Evangelicals embrace ‘creation care’ of God’s green earth,” which mentions Scott Freeman, a minister at the Northside Church of Christ in Waco…

http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/living/religion/14125790.htm

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