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You were referring to this article (a little section of it below)...

I never said it. Never believed it. Never even thought it. I know no Christian who believes or preaches such error. The Bible commands conservation — that we as Christians be careful stewards of the land and resources entrusted to us by the Creator. Moyers then attacked the congressional leadership, some by name, saying that “we’re not talking about a handful of fringe lawmakers who hold or are beholden to these beliefs. Nearly half the U.S. Congress before the recent election — 231 legislators in total and more since the election — are backed by the religious right.”

Moyers is not without reinforcements. A liberal theologian and active participant in the National Council of Churches, Barbara R. Rossing of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, published a book titled “The Rapture Exposed.” In it she attacks a large segment of the Christian community after attributing to me erroneous motives and beliefs on the basis of a fragment of a sentence taken out of context. Rossing contends that Christians who believe in the Rapture presume that there is no need for stewardship of natural resources because of the expected return of the Lord. She writes: “Watt told U.S. senators that we are living at the brink of the end-times and implied that this justifies clear-cutting the nation’s forest and other unsustainable environmental policies. When he was asked about preserving the environment for future generations, Watt told his Senate confirmation hearing, ‘I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns.’ Watt’s ‘use it or lose it’ view of the world’s resources is a perspective shared by the Rapture proponents.”

Rossing fictionalizes this whole scenario and neglects to finish the sentence, which was as follows: “I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns; whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations.”

Well, I think what Christians can *know* about the environment, from what the Bible says — is that it’s a *whole lot more rugged* than these environmentalists say.

Considering a world-wide flood, which destroyed absolutely everything on the face of the earth, and it all came back again, and looks just fine now, says a lot, right there.

And also, considering the *absolute destruction* from God, Himself, during the judgments of Revelation and the numbers of people killed in the world (about 4 Billion or more) and the poisoning of the oceans and the rivers and the killing of large amounts of vegetation, all over the globe, with some parts of the land *permanently* uninhabitable — that says to me, that the environment is a lot more resilient and a lot more *rugged* than we are told.

So, although one should not “wantonly destroy” the environment, I think it’s clear that the environment is not this delicate and easily destroyed eco-system. Far from it — it’s very resilient and rugged and can withstand things like the world-wide flood, wiping out everything over the whole globe and the judgments of Revelation, being extremely destructive, more so than mankind could do himself.

I wouldn’t be as concerned for the environment as these “enviro-whackos” are... that’s for sure.... :-)