Environment & Religion

            I do not believe that religion should be based around the environment. Many older religions are based around the environment, where a group of people believe in something like a Sun god. In modern religions I do not believe they should be based around the environment. Most modern religions believe in some sort of greater being which dominates over the universe. Personally, being a Christian, I do not believe that the environment has anything to do with religion other than the fact that God gave us nature to use. Religion is a faith between yourself and God and nothing else has an effect on that.

God created humans in his image, not animals. God appointed humans to subdue and rule over all animals and the approval to use animals for food. The Bible does say that humans have a moral obligation to treat animals humanly. Also, according to the Bible, God commanded humans to have dominion over all of nature, subduing it and ruling over it. However, this does not mean abusing it. We have the approval to use nature for our own needs and purposes, such as for food. Since nature was created by God and pleases God we should manage the damage we cause to nature.