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Originally Posted by guest1234567
It's possible to not be environmentally conscious because of ignorance of the ramifications of your own actions. I doubt you would go to hell for that. But if you willfully cause an environmental disturbance, why not? If it's littering, are you not stealing the view of someone else? I always told the kids to leave the flowers and pine cones where they were when they were younger and camping for the same reason.
Certainly allowing toxic waste into the air and water should be damnable, right?
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i've been giving this some thought today...but i have to ask you a question, when you were teaching your children to let nature be, did you threaten them with spankings, a grounding, no tv for a month, no sleepovers or any such similarly horrible thing in the mind of a child if they didn't comply with your wishes/teachings?
my guess would be no, but i could be wrong about that...i liken the above question to that which the catholic religion uses to keep people in line, eternal hell for not obeying...
personally, i would not litter and have often picked up trash on the side of a highway or in my neighbourhood, but i don't do it to be "rewarded" with heaven and i don't litter out of a fear of hell...it's just a conscionable thing to do...to make this a sin, well, i have to question the motive...does the vatican expect all production to grind to a halt for fear of hell? do they think people are just all of a sudden going to stop driving suvs, leaving all the lights in the house on or supporting companies that have high levels of pollution? the article mentioned that relatively few catholics even attend confession anymore, so are they just trying to drive up their penance numbers?
what're they going to change the 10 commandments now, too?
i disapprove, probably because of my catholic upbringing, yes that's more than likely what it is, in the fear tactics they use to manipulate people into doing what they say...