While cleaning out my accumulated papers, I ran across a list of Bible verses that I taught in a Natural Resources Conservation class at a Christian college in 1990. Since that time, conservative Christians have largely turned against environmental issues, and recently have abandoned them because of their adoration for Donald Trump. But these verses remain as a challenge to them. I merely list them here. They almost sound like the kinds of environmentalist screeds the conservative Christians so openly hate, but they come directly from the Bible.
“For six years you may sow your land and gather its crops, but during the seventh year you must leave it alone and let it lie fallow.”
“…because there is no fidelity, no kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land…therefore the land mourns, and everything that dwells therein languishes, even the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea are also swept away.”
“When the poor and the needy seek water in vain, and their tongues are parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them…I will open rivers on the bare heights and wells in the midst of valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool…I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane, and the larch as well, that men may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
“The land must not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine, since you are only resident aliens and serfs under me.”
I will let you think about these for a while, then post some more.
