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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing.
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:08:28 GMT
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- In article <15397@sunfse.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- tilley@sunfse.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- >As a Christian, I view man as the steward of a planet which is God's.
- >We rightfully use what the world has when we do not materially diminish
- >the ability of the world to provide for life: we abuse our stewardship
- >when we do materially diminish the ability of the world to provide for
- >life. Since overpopulation is currently impacting the ability of the
- >world to provide for life, for example, overpopulation is a serious
- >concern. The fact that a lot of Christians don't subscribe to this (or
- >non-Christians for that matter) doesn't make such concerns "anti-
- >Christian".
-
- I recommend the chapter in Nash's The Rights of Nature entitled
- The Greening of Religion. Interesting reading. But then so are
- the chapters on the Green of Science and Greening of Politics.
- The stewartship view is a recent one and how it developed is interesting
- itself.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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