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One reason that conservative Christians have not gotten over-enthusiastic is that the whole envionmental bandwagon is driven primarily by the left side of the political/tehological spectrum, who, true to form have to find all kinds of activist things to get worked up about in order to fill the vacuum of genuine NT spirituality based on the new birth and the authority of the Word of God.

Another reason that conservative and orthodox groups have shied away from

That being said, there ARE, in fact, evangelical groups who are quite concerned about the terrestrial environment and are doing a lot to become more involved.

Oops! Here's the missing copy: . . . environmental-ISM is that it has tended to be closely associated at times with New Age movements, Eastern religious concepts and Mother Earth paganism. These may be fringe elements in the environmentalist camp, but they have, unfortunately, served to cause reactions from the orthodox Christian community.

I sometimes wonder how much the James Watt attitude has to do with it. IMO, he personifies the attitude I see in some believers that God will fix everything when he ends the world next week... an attitude that will pretty certainly lead to utter ruin.

As I have indicated many times before, I, and many other postmillennial, historic pre-mil, and a-mil Christians, do not buy into the erroneous, interpretively-flawed rapture idea popularized by dispensationalists like Hal Lindsay and the Left Behind series. We do NOT expect the world to end anytime soon, but believe that we are here for the long haul, as the Kingdom of God gradually comes “on earth as it is in heaven,” however long that may take.

Consequently we are committed to making human society better and better according to the grace of the Gospel and the truth of the Law/Word of God. We believe, in accordance with the explicit words of Scripture, Israel’s history and world history - that only ordering a society’s families, education, marriages, economics and law system according to the directives set down in the Word of God can there be long-term blessing and prosperity. No one says that will be easy, or that it won’t require much study, intelligent application and hard work; but it can and must be done.

Along with all that MUST come a sense of responsibility for the physical realm as well. What good is it if we achieve great spiritual maturity if the planet cannot sustain quality life. It’s just that we must be sure that our science is really accurate before we start altering those elements of our social and economic system that sustain our quality of life. I personally believe the indicators are good that we need to take sensible action soon in certain environmental areas - minus the New Age religion and pagan goddess worship (the primary cause of visceral religious reaction). Other than that, let’s all work together to preserve our God-given island earth.