The planetary custodianship?

I don't think so... the preachers my mother listens to promote the idea that the earth was given to humans to use, so there's no reason to act with restraint or attention to natural resources. The implication is that when the earth is used up, either god will provide another one or they'll all go to heaven and won't need it.

My brother - another evangelical Christian - is a climate-change denier (he agrees that we're seeing changes, just denies they're man-made, calling them a "natural cycle"), a position that is also promoted by his church and its preachers. They believe that god won't let anything bad happen to the earth.

I know there are religions that emphasize stewardship, but the ones I'm most often in contact with don't really do much in that way.

Ironically, the 'green' religion is doing to you guys exactly what you guys claim christianity does to us.

It would be funny except for the rabid blood thirst displayed by some of the members, especially the we need to cut down the population crowd. Wonder how they'll do that?

Anyway, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about, so have a nice day. Before evil humans destroy the planet that is.

There are a few religions out there that

believe the Earth is going to be destroyed

and replaced by something 'better.'

No one knows when of course.

But what a horrible thing

to accept as a belief.

I mean, why worry about this world

when a new and improved one

is right around the corner?..

Not enough. I asked a pastor in a Lutheran church about this once and he said we are obligated to be good stewards of "god's creation"...so "green" issues were important to his church. good for him.

I've also been told by some that we are not supposed to get comfortable in this world because this is not "heaven"... and if the majority of christians think that way then that would explain why the environment doesn't seem very important to them.

it depends on the individual, but the christian church as a whole doesn't seem to speak out on this very much.

Yes Doctor Who protects us all.

They could destroy the bible and rewrite it in ecological terms.