"The extent that we separate our children from creation is the extent to which we separate them from the Creator – from God," says Paul Gorman, founder and director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, headquartered in Amherst, Mass. How can we care for God if we do not care for his creation? Gorman asks. "Any religious faith that acts an accomplice to this separation is heretical and sinful. Many of us are coming to share this radical view." Radical, yes, but not fringe.

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