Faiths find common ground in environmentalism, seeing protection of Earth as moral
By Brian Murphy
Associated Press
ATHENS, GREECE - More than a decade ago on an Aegean island, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians made a startling proposition: Pollution and other attacks on the environment could be considered sins.
At the time, the idea earned him little more than a nickname -- the ``green patriarch.''
It's no longer such a radical view.
Eco-friendly attitudes have increasingly moved into the mainstream of many faiths -- from Muslim clerics urging water conservation in the fast-growing Persian Gulf states to evangelical preachers in the United States calling attention to global warming.
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