Responding to "Green Politics," Part One

Please don't misunderstand me. I am not anti-Christian in any way. I am simply anti-anything-that-hinders-Christianity :-). I know that this is the message of an individual human and not Jesus, but I do find it frighteningly common in a very vocal group of Christians who spend a lot of their time giving the rest of us a bad name.

At the end of the day, our only call in this area is to stewardship of the planet, not activism of any kind. That's what we should be speaking up for and publishing articles about. It's not about human politics--it's about a divine directive that we must learn to follow better as an example to the rest of the world.

The author is not representative of most Christians I know. His position is purely an arrogance against the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. We are to be stewards of this earth which was created by God. He mixes his political views with Christianity and I find no reference in the Bible to any political platform. Mankind is sinful and is trashing the earth. Please wakeup and stop confusing the messenger with the message.

Do we really need to "respond" to the issue? Wouldn't it be more appropriate for the Church--which is by design a culture-shaping force--to participate in the conversation and explore our own call toward stewardship of the planet? By nature of the fact that we were in fact put in place to "rule over" the planet, and of the fact that he have free will, isn't it possible that we could be enemies to our world by being environmental tyrants?

Obvious--if carefully subtextual--political biases aside, this article seems to put Christendom in opposition to a point that it should in fact support: that we are a wasteful society that has done a poor job with the care of the environment with which we were entrusted. We should be using this opportunity to point back to the Creation story and the need for redemption rather than for "disproving" global warming or further discrediting ourselves by bashing "liberals," Democrats and "tree-huggers."