_______________________________________________________________________In recent weeks, Republican presidential hopeful and evangelical Rick Santorum suggested that any limits on exploiting the earth for energy, such as restricting arctic drilling or refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, as Obama has done, is a “phony theology” that puts the earth before “man” (Santorum’s anachronistic and sexist word for humanity). In Santorum’s words: “The Earth is not the objective, man is the objective, and I think that a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down… . We’re not here to serve the earth. That is not the objective, man is the objective.” He went on to suggest that any view that differs from his is not based on the Bible. Unfortunately, Santorum’s thoughts just quoted represent a large portion of Christian theology in the U.S. when it comes to creation. But is this view really “the biblical view”? There are many places in the Bible to which we could turn to address this question, but the Book of Job is one of the most powerful because it contains one of the longest discourses on creation, and humanity’s part in it.
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