All Christians in general

In Reply to: Re: Good questions, but posted by Skep on December 10, 2009 at 11:06:52:

I don't think the general lack of concern for ecology found in Christian populations worldwide is due to the export of American-styled Christian Fundamentalism, if that's what you mean. This is from the first post in this thread:

• Christianity has been called "the most anthropocentric religion in the history of the world." -- (Lynn White Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science 155 (# 3767), 1967)
• "Christianity not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is God’s will that man exploit nature for his proper end."

• Saint Francis of Assisi is said to have failed in his attempts to promote "the idea of the equality of all creatures, including man." The predominant attitude of Catholics was "the idea of man’s limitless rule of the world and its life forms."
• The Humanae Vita "is [probably] one of the main reasons why the Catholic Church has been so slow to enter the ecological debate." The Humanae Vita promotes "unbridled population growth" and sets out to "defend human life in a narrow anthropocentric context," thus creating "conditions that will, in fact, endanger all life on earth."