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[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 147 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While discussing the imminent climate disaster with my elderly parents, they said they don't care because they won't live long enough to see it.

I asked, "What about your kids and grandkids?"

They asked, "Do you believe in God?"

I said, "No."

They said, "If you Believe in God, then you'll get to go to Heaven when you die."

I don't believe in God, so I won't be going to Heaven (which I also don't believe in), but if I did believe in God and Heaven, and expected to go there, why the hell should I and my children have to live through a post-apocalyptic shitshow before we die?

For the record, from what the church they made me go to taught me about God and Heaven, they should probably not expect to make the cut either. The God I was taught about was pretty anti-fascist. Kind of a socialist really.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 28 points 6 months ago

Didn't God instruct us to take care of the earth right after we were made?

Genesis 1:28 ESV‬

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

‭Genesis 2:15 ESV‬

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Shouldn't it be an incentive to take care of God's creation with respect and love because He saw that it was good?

Genesis 1:12 ESV‬

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

It seems more rational to exploit the earth since you only live once if there is no creator and you are an atheist versus believing there is a Creator and adhering to a religious belief that teaches that the Creator thought His creation was good.

[-] Klairabelle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Most Christians would rather believe in escapism and have cruel contempt rather than stewardship and kindness and love and acceptance. Even if it is part of the gospel we read.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

‭Matthew 7:21-23 ESV‬

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

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