Re: Resource conservation and Christ's return

gordon brown wrote:
>
> The first time I recall ever having run across the argument that Christ's
> return relieved us of the responsibility to conserve was in some article
> written by a critic of Christianity, and I thought it was a false
> caricature of Christians that someone had made up until not too much later
> I read that James Watt (Reagan's Secretary of the Interior) had made a
> similar statement. I have seen it on a few occasions since then. ................
        Watt is often reported to have said this but he didn't - or at least there is no
record of his having done so. He did say something to the effect that we don't know
when Christ will return & should manage things properly until he does. I'm sorry that I
can't find the exact quote right now but it is (I believe) in Elizabeth Drew's "A
Reporter at Large" in the New Yorker of 4 May 1981.
        But this doesn't mean that Watt's policies as Reagan's Secy. of the Interior
were very environment-friendly.

                                                        Shalom,
                                                        George

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
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Received on Tue Dec 16 20:08:11 2003