Earth Day 2010 – Nature’s Greatest Gift
Congrats to Brian Burch and the folks at CatholicVote.org for putting together an awesome Pro-Life marketing movement, using Earth Day as the catalyst… and for encouraging Americans to think about nature’s greatest gift. These posters have been plastered on buses, subways and trains in numerous large cities around the country, including Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles.
Check out the video they put together getting folk’s thoughts on the street. Click HERE if you can’t view the video.
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 22, 2010, is Earth Day. I challenge you to take a good look at how you view Earth, nature, creation. Do you value it as the incredible gift that God has given to you or do you take advantage of it? Squander it? Disrespect it? Heck, don’t only do that on Earth Day, do that every day.
TrueMan up!
Human life is not nature’s gift, but God’s gift. I’m confused with how the figure that human life is a gift from nature over at CatholicVote, unless a some of them are nature worshippers.
Simon,
I agree, human life is a gift from God. I did not intend to say that nature (personified by mother nature, or similar) was the creator of life, but I can see by what I wrote in the post that you could infer that.
My point goes a little something like this… nature, aka creation, is given to humanity as a gift of His love for us. We (Adam) were commanded to cultivate and protect this gift. Nature, or what is natural, comes directly from He who creates… including the greatest natural creation, life. Life was created, as seen in The Book of Genesis, out of the ground (or what we would today refer to as part of nature).
The point here, at least I’ll speak for myself and not for CatholicVote.org, is that we should stop prioritizing taking care of the earth and start prioritizing taking care of humanity.
Thoughts?
“The point here, at least I’ll speak for myself and not for CatholicVote.org, is that we should stop prioritizing taking care of the earth and start prioritizing taking care of humanity.”
Agreed.