David Warren in the Ottowa Citizen:
As I have argued, almost ad nauseam in this space, contemporary western man has replaced religion with a quasi-religion: a fanatic moral relativism founded upon the cosmology suggested by Darwinism. Instead of faith in God, we have a neurotic scientism. And with that comes a grievous concern about the world, and all the distress of environmentalism.
For if you don't think God is in charge, it may follow that we are in charge. We must regulate everything: even the weather.
Indeed. Godless corruption of this, perhaps?
Look - what Christians call stewardship, humanists call dominionism because they don't share our understanding of our Father's ownership of things and man's relationship to Him. Conversely, what secularists call stewardship of resources is really dominionist, because it is ultimately all about seizing control of what fellow humans do with the planet.
Despite the admirable efforts from both sides to bridge the gap, there's a world of difference between a Christian and secular world view on ecology.
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