Thursday, March 10, 2005
Priorities, Priorities
G.K. Chesterton once said,
So why is this in a post on priorities. Simple, "priorities" is one of my several arguments against "Evangelical Environmentalism."In the grand scheme of things, I just do not see environmental disasters as high on the priority list. Is it more important than genocide? Don't give me that "It is genocide" stuff, name a single population destroyed by pollution. Is it more important than hunger? Need to feed 'em before we can worry about whether cancer will kill 'em.
Then there is the issue of environmentalism generally. What's more important, Jesus or the earth? Maybe a different way to phrase that is the post immediately below.
When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.Can there be a better example of the wisdom of that statement than this story.
A man apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for miles and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, police said.When someone is willing to commit a crime to express a purely political position, one would pretty well have to conclude that they have substituted political worship for Godly worship. By the way, there is a kicker to this story -- the woman the guy stalked,
Fernandez said she is a registered Democrat who voted for President Bush in 2004.Priorities matter. On Monday I posted about the National Association of Evangelicals manifesto. Today, the NYTimes picked up on it as well. Note that the NYT picked up on it as a single issue document which it was not. What issue did they pick up on? -- why my favorite "Evangelical Environmentalism," in this case specifically global warming.
So why is this in a post on priorities. Simple, "priorities" is one of my several arguments against "Evangelical Environmentalism."In the grand scheme of things, I just do not see environmental disasters as high on the priority list. Is it more important than genocide? Don't give me that "It is genocide" stuff, name a single population destroyed by pollution. Is it more important than hunger? Need to feed 'em before we can worry about whether cancer will kill 'em.
Then there is the issue of environmentalism generally. What's more important, Jesus or the earth? Maybe a different way to phrase that is the post immediately below.
