EARTH DAY - 2008

* Or How to celebrate it right!

Where I work called on everyone to wear green as a part of Earth Day activities. I had to wonder, do the powers that be realize that it takes chemicals to make the green dye? & those chemicals often can harm the environment?

That aside, I decided the best way to commemorate Earth Day was to wear my green T-shirt that calls on us to protact our most important natural resource, the unborn.

So, I am wearing my green "Help Cure Abortion" shirt today.

This is not to downplay our responsibility to be good stewards of the environment, we are called by God to do so. That doesn't mean we put nature up on a pedestal & worship it like a god as many "tree huggers" do. We are to use the resources God gave us responsibly. & nature isn't more important than human life. As Fr. Parker pointed out in his homily today, God didn't die to save nature. He died to save us. We are the ones with an immortal soul.

Man's fall has harmed nature, that IS true. At the end of time God will restore creation. In the mean time we are to avoid both extremes. Deifying nature & irresposble misuse & pollution are both wrong.

We are to do our best to use the resources, doing our best to avoid waste, but knowing we can't always avoid doing so.

But above all else, if we don't defend & value human life, & esp that of the unborn, elderly & disabled, more than we value nature, then we don't truly value anything that God has given us.