I strongly dislike Earth Day, but not for the immediate reasons you might suspect.
I have no problem with taking care of our natural surroundings. God put us in place as the caretakers of His creation, and there is a certain level of respect that we should have for it. No one wants to eat diseased fish from a polluted stream. Nobody wants to live next to neighbors who just toss their trash in their yard for the wind to blow around. And there isn't anybody who enjoys an acid-rain shower.
So, we do have certain responsibilities to take care of God's creation. But, to what limit?
I don't like Earth Day or the green movement, because they have made a religion out of environmentalism. I explain my views here. What is interesting is that ever since I wrote last year's Earth Day post, the whole climate-change argument has been found to be fraudulent. The science behind it is nothing more than a hoax.
With that in mind, we need to go back to Genesis and understand that God gave Adam a couple of commands regarding the earth. He gave mankind dominion over the earth. Translation: we're in charge of taking care of God's creation. That's important when it comes to keeping our surroundings clean.
And, God told mankind to use and consume the creation. Today, we have distorted this part of the command by making certain elements of nature, be it animal or plant, more important than mankind. We've handed dominion over to the things God gave us authority over.
God set up a particular order for this world, and called it "very good." Consider this as the world celebrates Earth Day.
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