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now let's hop into today's episode does God care about animals does God care about

the environment should Christians care about the environment?

Should Christians care about animals or the environment?

You'd be hard-pressed to find many sermons answering these questions in the affirmative.

In fact, you kind of be hard-pressed to find any sermons talking about the environment or animals at all.

And perhaps maybe this just isn't too surprising. I mean, surely the Bible doesn't have that much to say about

worldly topics like ecology and how we treat animals that kind of thing.

The first time I realized I was wrong about that assumption was shortly after I became a Christian in college.

Given my new faith, I thought maybe one of the first things I should do is take a class on the Bible.

And so I enrolled in an Old Testament course taught in the Religious Studies Department at the college I was attending.

Now I have to admit I was a little bit naive at the time.

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