Do you care more about the environment or a life closer to God?
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I can't speak for people who are deluded by the desire to be closer to something they know nothing about.  I have observed though, that huge gas-guzzling SUVs, Jesus stickers, Bush stickers and 'support the troops' stickers, seem to go hand in hand with each other.\n\nI live in the Pacific Northwest, a land that was once a beautiful paradise to some great people.  Some people use to call it "Gods Country".  Well, it's been 150 years since people with the desire to be closer to god showed up.  That Paradise has been shaved to stumps, the fish are disappearing, our lands are filled with some of the worst nuclear waste problems the world knows, we're storing chemical weapons at a depot the size of a small U.S. state, the language and culture of those who were here before has been marginalized and nearly irradicated by the brute force of those seeking a closer relationship with god (and seeking to make sure everyone around them found the same relationship).\n\nAnyway, I'd prefer if all the religious zealots left the northwest forever.
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i prefer mine, which also happens to be the truth. god is a person i know that exists in storybooks and in the minds of gullable people who have been brainwashed into emptying their wallets so they can purchase an empty promise.\n\nah reality...its cold! its hard! its heartless! but its the best reality we have!
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Honestly, you live on in the memory of the lives of people that were special to you and that you touched through your actions.  As an atheist/secular humanist I believe it is important that I leave the world a better place than I found it.  As such, I try to touch the lives of as many people as possible while I am living on this beautiful blue globe.
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You are living the the things you do are the purpose. If you do good things you are doing a real purpose by being on earth. everyone has a purpose here.
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I am very grateful but I am even more grateful for my life.\nIf we have material wealth and we don't share it, we become miserable. I don't give it all away but I share and I am my happiest when I give. Love and Life is more important to me than what I have. I thank God every day for giving me strength to have acquired what I have through hard work and persiverence. I am indeed GRATEFUL
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Central, no. Inclusive, yes. The Bible gives us many guidelines (food and health laws) to start with. God's word teaches us to love and respect all His creation. That in itself should give anyone pause to think before acting and to take responsibility for his/her own actions. Self respect should lead us, as well, to keep our environment clean for health. Considering specific species saving or not - a complex issue by itself, beyond my time alloted for this venue.
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God did not use to play an important role in my life but 6 years ago that changed drasticly.  Now he is the center of my life and I went from angry and myserable to peaceful and happy.  We can all use to be a lot more God focused.
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I am more afraid to NOT live for God.  I don't think people are afraid they are just too lazy and self centered.  Truely living a life that is pleasing to the Most Merciful is not easy but it is well worth the work.
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No. Not solely both. The question is a false dichotomy with an intentionally limited number of theoretical causes, where anyone choosing only one or both of the choices given would have no induspitable idea why there was an earthquake that spawned a tsunami that killed 100s of thousands in south Asia. Or why vesuvius erupted and covered the people of Pompeii in deadly ash. Or why, if it existed, Atlantis sank. \n\nI hate to break this to some people, but the only difference between man and the rest of nature is our capacity to understand our potential impact, which does not by default prove that every other lifeform on Earth acts in the best interest of nature. We are nature. All that we have created stems from us, and from nature we were born. To separate us from nature and say that much of what we do is inherently against its design, is to create a distinction based solely on a projection of nature as infallible and perfect in its effort to create balance, even to correct itself, predicated on some concept, I suppose, of a Gaia of Eden, or somewhere, whom governs benevolently. For all anyone knows, no amount of prayer, no amount of better environmental stewardship can stop the occurence of some disasters. \n\nI do not oppose better environmental behavior. I generally agree with strict regulations to aid the environment. But I certainly think there are more theories of equal or greater rationality than the choices presented. Some of them might absolve human kind of blame for somethings. Should we not include the possibilities that we are human not only in the sense of being more responsible, but in the sense that there is a limit to what we can do and have done?
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Respect for the Earth. Good Luck!
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Do you want to do the same ? Have you lost the will to live? Please try GOD.
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no. nothing is  important to god.\ngod  is  important to everything.
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God is more important because without him I can do nothing.  So in order to think or feel anything about anyone I first have to wake up each morning and without God I can't do it.  God is my everything!  He'll be with me when no one else can.
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Maybe not so much of a man sitting in the clouds watching over us, but I do believe in something more powerful.  Maybe its fate, maybe its god, maybe its even the devil, but there has to be more to this life then just being here.  I don't have beliefs like the major religions, but I have ideas.
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to be aware of the environment, and how to respond to it
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I wouldn't worry about it too much.  We cab all define what god is.  Find something you like and enjoy it.
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Whithout God in your life... YUP!\nA life well lived is not measured in the accumulation of things, but rather through unparalleled experiences!