>>1844935>American and European environmentalism is probably unrelated to Christianity and probably has more to do with excess wealth and an educated populationAnd why exactly do you think those are all unrelated. The Catholic Church practically invented academia, scholasticism, and rationalism. If you don't believe me, you've obviously never heard of Aquinas, Augustine, or the countless scribes, mathematicians, astronomers, and theologians (which believe it or not is a highly intellectual field) to come from Christianity and Islam. Even their art and architectire revolves around mathematics, number theory, and a sense of proportion delicately crafted over thousands of years. When you say look at Latin America and Africa, what exactly are you implying. That they are incapable of being Christian? Have you seen Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, and Cuba/Venezuela pre-communism? Or are you referring to the war torn Africa, whose economy and prosperity has been stripped down because of atheistic and greed-driven ideologies? Even then Africa is predominantly Muslim, and still prosperous in the north west (look at Morocco and Senegal). Where does the wealth of Europe come from, a place that pales in comparison to the resource rich Africa, if not from the Church's long tithing and teaching? Abrahamic religions are driven towards education and are surrounded by wealth (different from greed because it is used differently), with the exception of those who pervert theology, because sublimity is intellectually stimulating. If you look at every single early ecophilosopher; Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, even as far back as Francis and St. Seraphim of Serov, they all view nature through God and drive their philosophies through a love of God. The claim that Christianity is unrelated to environmentalism and education is completely untrue.
On a separate topic, why do you dislike Christian anthropocentrism beyond ecology?
