The evangelical ecologist has the materalist story of creation.
The favorite question of both atheists and the religious people who argue with them is “what if your wrong?”.
If the atheist is wrong he “burns in hell” because his sin isn’t murder or lying, his sin is the basis for his whole life, unbelief.
If the religious person is wrong, then well they wasted their whole life, living uneedingly strict, in ignorance and did not advance the cause of “mankind”.
There is one type of person that doesn’t lose. The Jesus follower. The Jesus follower doesn’t have to be a creationist or evolutionist. It’s irrelevant to what their life is about. The Jesus follower lived their life doing good by others. Feeding the poor, clothing the naked. They treated people with dignity and acted with integrity. If the Jesus follower is wrong, then they only left the world a better place.
I like what you are saying Jess. I think that the Jesus follower can also have beliefs about creation and similar issues without denigrating the act of following Jesus.
I wish every “Christian” would read your post. Some times I am ashamed to call myself a Christian. Now I don’t feel good about this feeling but I do. So many people have done bad thing in the name of Christianity that it makes me really mad. As a history teacher, I teach my students the facts. And the facts makes Christians look kinda bad.
The one thing you have hit that is so real is that Jesus’ name does not seem to be thrown in the mud. People refer to God or Christians but not Jesus. And if every Christian would just throw off the yoke of denomination and unite as followers of Jesus the world would truly be a better place and more people would see that its all about Jesus. To walk the way of Jesus is not to waist you time on pointless rituals and traditions, but its to truly give world and people around you what really matters. Yourself.
Hell yeah.