About 30 years ago God was upset with something (in retrospect we don't quite know what it was) and decided to blow the top off of Mount St. Helens in Washington killing vast number of trees, small furry creatures along with some deer and elk. I was around at this time and watched God's Majesty on TV and I don't ever recall any environmentalists praying to God to stop it, much less any cathylicks lighting candles or holding novenas and praying to their blessed virgin to intercede. Nor did I see any government officials obtaining any court injunctions or sending out any jack booted thugs from the EPA to try and put a stop to it.
When all the dust had settled and the lava flows cooled off I don't ever recall seeing one tree hugger hippie out there trying to replant the trees, nor did a single one of them try to save any animals before the whole thing blew up. And where was the EPA in trying to clean the whole mess up - nowhere to be found. As a matter of fact the "scientists" decided it was best to do nothing so that they could "study" it (meaning more tax dollars confiscated from hard working Americans). Now today (some 30 years later) they have a web site devoted to the whole thing and guess what - all the plants, bushes, meadows, and animals are returning all by themselves (meaning - God is replanting and restoring everything).
Now according to Genesis God made man in His image, and while we have yet to come close to God in the things that we can create, the power of modern strip mining is still pretty awesome. If there is a large vein of coal in Appalachia somewhere we can pretty literally take off the top of a mountain to recover it to generate electricity so that some hippie somewhere can charge his electric car and feel good about the environment. And when it comes to holes in the ground, strip mining comes in handy here too - with large limestone quarries. Let's see, oh yea - that limestone (along with coal) is used in making cement that is used in the foundation of houses so the limousine lieberals, Al Gore, and hellywood starlets can have a place to live.
Then there is the time that God hurled a big stone down there in Arizona creating a big hole in the ground that people pay money to go see. Hell, they even set up a visitor center. They could do the same thing with all the strip mining sites around the country.
I say before we let Obama and his commie pinko enviro-whacko's tell the rest of us how to live we make them go out and live in squalor without all the modern conveniences that they are prescribing - and then "study" it for 30 years. I suspect that if any of them survive it will be more like the occasional Sasquatch sightings than a flourishing Christian civilization.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:26-28
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