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Muslim views on stewardship

• “it is he who has made you successor on the earth”

• “God created everything and the earth belongs”

Muslim views on abuse of the environment

• “Do not seek from it more than what you need”

• “Eat and drink but do not be extravagant: God does not like extravagant people”

Christian views on pollution

• “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it”

• “every human act of irresponsibility towards creatures is an abomination”

Christian views on the value of animals - against

• “everything that lives and moved about will be food for you”

• “take with you seven of every kind of animal, a male and its mate”

Christian views on the value of animals - for

“the righteous care for the needs of their animals” (Proverbs 12:10)

Muslim views on the value of animals

“all creatures that crawl on the earth and those that fly with their wings are communities like yourself”

Christian views against abortion

• “before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5)

• “it does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. In both instance, destruction is murder” (Tertullian, a Christian writer)

Christian views for euthanasia

“Blessed are the merciful”

Christian views against euthanasia

“thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13)

Muslim views against euthanasia

“Do not take life, which God has made sacred except by right”

Christian views on death and the afterlife

“for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16)

Christian views on origin of the universe - creationists

“in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)

Christian views on stewardship

• “a good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children” (Proverbs 13:22)

• “the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15)

Christian views on dominion

“God told man to rule over all the earth” (Genesis 1:28)

Christian views on abuse of the environment - for

“you made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet” (Genesis 8:6)

Christian views on pollution - against

“the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it” (Psalm 24:1)

Christian views on the origins of human life - creationist

“God said “let us make man in our own image” (Genesis 1:26-30)