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Weeping for the Jordan

Revered river endangered by pollution, overuse.

Michele Chabin, RNS, with reporting by Elizabeth Lawson | posted 8/28/2007 08:41AM

The lower portion of the Jordan River is so polluted that the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has designated it an Endangered Cultural Heritage Site. The WMF, the leading international body for the protection ...

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John	Posted: August 30, 2007 6:56 AM


Yes it is just a river and not a person, but it is the river that Jesus chose to be baptized in. That a place of such historical significance is allowed to be degraded in such a way is horrible. Would we allow garbage dumping at Mount Vernon or Arlington? Would the Brits allow raw sewage to run through the London in the Thames?

A Hermit

Posted: August 29, 2007 10:43 AM

Human beings are biological as well as spiritual beings. We are God's creation, temples of God with the Spirit of God in us. Diverting waters and polluting them leads to human death and suffering, the polluting and perversion of God's creation. One cannot claim to be 'saved' and act towards God's creation in a destructive and ignorant manner. God loves this world and this creation ("For God so loved the world that He sent His only Son..."), and so must we.

Mr.Kay

Posted: August 29, 2007 5:53 AM


Yes, I would prefer we weep over lost souls than over lost rivers,

anonymous as well

Posted: August 28, 2007 10:01 PM


How about this for headlines? "Weeping for lost souls" or "Try to save Christians from the pollution of worldliness" or maybe "Sound doctrine in Christianity nearly running dry". Some Christians do not realize that the world is polluted and wade right into it.

Anonymous

Posted: August 28, 2007 2:24 PM


Noted some anti-semitism in this article. Jesus is Jewish.

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