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Don't Forget FAITH
“A lot of churches refuse to acknowledge the fact that the creation is important to God. You have to acknowledge that the one and only God created these things. “We have a covenant with God, spelled out in Genesis. God gave us dominion, and a lot of people think that means He gave us the right to destroy everything and take what we want.“God meant He made a covenant with us, and He wants us to protect and to act as good stewards on this earth.
“A lot of preachers and churches ignore that, and I don’t know why. Every time I question that, somewhere in the back of my mind God says, ‘Follow the money.’ It’s all about money.
“They think, ‘If I destroy all this land and rape the earth and make a lot of money off of it and give that to the church, then I will forget about [where the money came from and] my covenant with God to protect His creation’.”
– Coal River Mountain Watch’s Julia Bonds, quoted in “Mountain Defender: With Fierce Faith, Julia Bonds Works to Save the Land and People of West Virginia,” an article by Beth Newberry, which appeared in the March 2005 issue of Sojourners Magazine.
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