> I don't know of any mainstream religion that encourages waiting for god to fix things. Individuals certainly use God as an excuse sometimes. I've seen some

> I don't know of any mainstream religion that encourages waiting for god to fix things. Individuals certainly use God as an excuse sometimes. I've seen some of my relatives say they didn't believe in anthropogenic global warming because God wouldn't allow people to change his world (or something to that effect). Sorry, I don't remember seeing that particular verse in the Bible; and in any case, God lets people do lots of pretty crazy things. Giving us the dignity to choose means giving us the possibility that we actually will royally mess things up. But I don't think that has anything to do with religion per se. You get atheistic libertarians saying that global warming can't be happening because it isn't priced into the market; or that if it does happen, market forces will intervene to fix things. People are just really good at finding reasons they shouldn't have to be inconvenienced.