� � Hello,

� � The following message mainly applies to the predominant Christian population, but it certainly could apply to all Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and all other loving people as well. � Hopefully, I will be able to enlighten you more than I may unintentionally dishearten you.

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� � Hardly any Christian alive today is really living the way that Jesus had intended for us to live. � Many of us devout Christians are simply just repeating one message of the gospel over and over again. � Of course, the good news of one's salvation is the most important aspect of the gospel. � However, most Christians are neither sharing nor fulfilling the rest of the gospel, which contains the many actions of Jesus showing important examples of love.

� � Jesus stated that the second most important command for us to obey is ' love your neighbor as yourself,' Mark 12:28-31.� By not showing nor proving our love in all of our actions, we have become strangers to each other instead of a family, mainly because of the mistrust caused by withholding love. � Also, many dogmatic differences cause unnecessary separation between us and our Christian neighbors.
� Without us showing love to all of our Christian neighbors we will continue to separate until we become enemies, who only mean to harm or to defeat the other.

� � Too many Christians are being harmed more by their neighbor's greed than by any other action. � The majority of my fellow Christians have become willing participants in the rampant commercialism and greed that is overtaking the whole nation, if not the whole world. � By loving money above all, we withhold much needed love from others. � Even worse, our combined greed has produced a decaying effect on the overall level of our national morality and conscience.
� Decadence now pervades the airwaves and corrupts most pages. � Many secular tv and radio broadcasts are using decadent examples of obscenity, profanity, and indecency, that are meant to be cool by outdoing the previous trespass beyond decency. � It really is a total shame that someone, especially a young child, has to listen to so much offensive language these days while just surfing the FM radio dial. � Decadent morals are seriously affecting most Christians moral standards because they are approving them by most of the purchases that they make from the sponsors of a commercial program.
� By approval of decadent morals, you are harming your Christian neighbors like enemies because of your willing acceptance of living in a weakening(fallen) society without giving her a stronger input of your love by lending her your hand, either upfront or to her behind if necessary, to help give her a boost(upward).

� � But, there is something more devastating than just our approval of greed caused decadence that influences us, as well as our innocent children, to behave like degenerates. � I am referring to your role in making purchases that directly harm your Christian neighbor's life, by harming our only home, the Earth. � Some of your purchases are harming the environment, especially the atmosphere, which then harm all of us. � � If you are already an environmentalist, which all true Christians are supposed to be, then I deeply thank you for proving that you are my loving neighbor who cares for my well-being. � I, too, have been spending most of my time and money investing for our home's future appreciation.
� The following message is only meant to show people who are not already full-time Christians that they are responsible to maintain their shared home. � Because, you cannot be a true Christian if you do not love future generations of Christians, period.

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� � In buying, selling, or using, bio-hazardous products, such as fossil fuels, or vehicles powered by them, aerosols, and un-recycled tree products, etc., or anything else that is thought to harm our atmosphere, you are guilty of intentionally harming your Christian neighbor's future.
Here are just a few examples of harmful products that are known to affect our atmosphere:

� � 1. Vehicles powered by fossil fuels, such as cars, semis, airplanes, mowers, loaders, tractors, etc., which saturate the air that we breathe with unclean pollutants, such as CO and NOx, and volatile organic compounds which are responsible for severe ozone pollution in the lower atmosphere, are the biggest problems. � � Please consider that only 50 years ago, just a third of the world's population were actually traveling in fuel-powered vehicles. � Today, however, that number has risen dramatically to around 4 billion people. � Now, consider the end of the next 100 years with the population increasing to around 15 billion people. � That means that 10 billion people or so could be traveling in fuel-powered vehicles by the year 2100 if things stayed the same.
The possibilty of causing twice as much damaging pollution in our atmosphere and as twice as fast as what is now occurring, with the addition of extra vehicles among the future populace, needs to be personally acknowledged. � Without us making many major changes, now, then it will only take a matter of decades for the present ' Ozone Alert Days' to easily turn into future 'Lethal Exposure Alert Days.'

� � If you truly love your Christian neighbor, then you would stop using your car for personal travel or, at least, substantially limiting its use if other alternatives are feasible. � I highly recommend the following feasible alternatives: � walking, biking, car-pooling, using electric cars or electric bikes, riding in electric trains or in city buses, or in any means of public transit. � The main reason that Christians are not already using these alternatives full-time is because of the extra expense or inconvenience required. � Some alternatives just are not as easy or as convenient as using your own car. � But, you really don't need your car if you are only going to the corner store for a bag of groceries because you could walk there and back. � � Yes, I know that there are always exceptions, such as not having local public transit service, severe weather, or interstate travel, but, I'm referring to what you CAN � do, not to what you CAN'T do.
Everyone CAN use some of these alternatives. � Please consider using some of these alternatives most of the time.

� � 2. Un-recycled tree products such as paper, cardboard, plywood, and lumber, etc., which are directly responsible for most of the deforestation that severely affects our global atmosphere and weather. � Trees play a vital role in maintaining the air quality in the atmosphere and by maintaining its normal weather patterns. � � Trees not only act as oxygen generators by absorbing our carbon dioxide exhausts through photosynthesis, but they also act as rain generators that provide us with inland rainfall. � � For example, in deserts there are no trees and as a result there is no substantial amount of annual rainfall. In rain forests there are millions of trees and as a result there is an abundant amount of daily rainfall. � The main reason for the rainfall is because of all the water vapor that either evaporates or transpires from the huge amount of vegetation. (A tree's canopy can contain a substantial amount of precipitation within its foilage. � Just think about the many thousands of gallons of rainwater that are intercepted by a forest's total vegetation to get recycled back into the atmosphere through forest transpiration. � � Plus, The tree's extensive root system, which can reach up to 4 times the diameter of the tree's crown, also holds rainfall near the surface of the ground in order for trees to drink.) � It's this water vapor that returns to the air as clouds in order to produce more rain.
� Ocean moisture alone can't build up or progress enough over a dry land mass to provide sufficient rainfall. � Most clouds would simply burn up and disappear.

� � Without trees all rainfall would simply drain deep into underground aquifers and caverns to remain isolated from further interaction with the atmosphere. � When you harm trees you harm the atmosphere and you also harm us, because without consistent rainfall, crops will suffer and so will your Christian neighbors. � � If you truly love us, then you will no longer buy or use un-recycled tree products. � If you are in the lumber industry then you should concentrate on the re-use of existing lumber, unless you maintain a tree farm that provides for all of your fresh lumber.
� I wish that you would realize exactly how serious the situation is becoming. � The weather patterns have begun to shift and are becoming more and more erratic. Record floods are increasing mainly because they are occurring in drier climates. � Record droughts are increasing as well.
� How many more trees have to disappear before you will be willing to cooperate and do something personally?

� � Think of all the boards, and pallets, and fences, needlessly discarded simply because they were no longer wanted, especially those boards discarded after being used to prepare for a hurricane. � If you went to the store to buy the lumber, then by any possible means, return it instead of discarding it. � Don't let extra expense be the only reason for not doing it. � Think of it as more of a duty charge than as an expense. � � If you really want to know what happened to the normal rainfall amounts, then all you have to do is travel down any street and count the large number of dead picket fences that once used to be a live forest beneficial for rain. � It is too sad to think about how many forests now exist as fences in just one large city.

� � Probably the most senseless waste that is difficult to comprehend is the cost of a business, especially a restaurant, buying 100 percent recycled merchandise for their indoor customers' use only to encourage them to discard it all as trash because of no other option. � This effort is no more than a half-hearted, bunch of bull-oney. � The only real trash should be either leftover food or small packets. � Either a serious attempt needs to be made to recycle all of the used recyclables left within the business or else they must admit that it is just an intentional waste of time and money.

� � A comprehensive plan for the planting of new trees in every community needs to be considered and promoted. � The U.S.D.A. does plant many trees, but mainly within the Forestry System. � They only offer a reforestation program, which basically means the conservation of existing trees, designed to re-forest damaged national forests. � What we really need is a comprehensive forestation program that promotes the planting of 'new' trees around businesses, and around the plots of the numerous ranchlands and farmlands. � � This method could provide for an enormous amount of tree growth with little infringement of one's property by planting just around each property's border. � To me, trees just growing in neighborhoods are not beneficial enough for substantial rain.
Okay, the next topic has nothing to do with money, but it has everything to do with our environment.

� � 3. Overpopulation of our planet is a serious issue that also needs to be addressed. � The simple fact is that a limit will be reached, when there will not be enough food produced to provide for everyone. � Just looking at the widespread damage caused by only 5 billion people is enough for me to estimate that a reasonable threshold for sustenance is no more than 15 billion people. � Beyond that level systems may begin to fail. � Ecosystems that is.
� We need to take drastic measures now in slowing down the phenomenal population increase. � Certain incentives for having large families need to be replaced with ones that support small families, because, a family can be overpopulated, too. � A family that ranges between 4 to 6 members is sure to be more inexpensive as well as more supportive and loving toward each other than a family of 10 or more, constantly competing for attention.

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� � If you still do not think that a true Christian is supposed to be an active environmentalist, then I offer one last example to prove why you are wrong.
It's the parable of the faithful steward, in Luke 16:1-14.
Maybe Jesus will forgive you, before giving you a fair punishment, for not being a good steward by not maintaining his property nor increasing its values and sharing its appreciation with all of the inhabitants.

� � I'm sure Jesus will say: � "So what if you didn't maintain your rented home, but you instead caused it to burn down, killing all of its residents, including yourself. � So what if you are directly responsible for its demise by 'cutting' off the overhead 'sprinklers' and by leaving the 'gas' turned on. � After all, it's not your fault, because everyone else was doing it, and you felt pressured to join them. � You have proven how much you can be trusted to be a faithful steward. � So, even though you deserve to be severely punished, all of your sins will be forgiven anyway. � Because, I now know that you will take much better care of your own mansion. � So, come on in! � You'll just 'love' it." � (Please excuse my negative approach. But, in this case it's quite necessary.)
Okay, I know that Jesus will not say anything like that. � I know that there are many loving people who richly deserve to be more than repaid for the enormous amount of love and devotion that they have given, and are giving, to their neighbors. � However, I also know that there are way too many people who justly deserve to be properly punished, for causing their neighbor's harm, for wasting important time and money in the overly 'abusive' amount- � of meaningless games being played- � or other selfish entertainment, for intentionally behaving like fools, and for masquerading around by intentionally hiding their true selves.

� � To conclude, I have proven that most Christians alive today are 'not' living the way that Jesus had intended. � Jesus intended for us to be- � happy joyful souls who love, honor, and respect God and each other, � and brilliant children of light who emanate truth and love into the realm of darkness by showing the true picture, hidden only by the absence of their light, � and spiritual role models- loving examples who show the most responsible way to live ... living examples who show the most thorough way to love (from, love living and live loving), � and defenders of truth and morality, � and most importantly, conscientious faithful investors who continually strive for a brighter future while coexisting in a physical world created for our spiritual growth as individuals with freedom of choice. � � I ask that you 'prove' that you do not love money above all.
� Please show Jesus, and your faithful neighbor, that you are truly a loving person by 'all' of your deeds and actions and by loving your Christian neighbor over money to reinforce God's authority over it. � � Please, broaden your close relationship with the Lord, to include your faithful neighbor, who needs to experience your love along with the Lord.

� � Love, Michael.