Blog #8 Religion and Environment

I learned a lot from each of the presentation. When I saw the topic, religion and environment, I couldn’t understand its concept and where I should start with because I didn’t see any relationship between religion and environment. Moreover, I don’t believe God so it was more difficult to see religion and environment together, so I kept researched on how Hinduism affected their society; I thought environment represents society.

The concept of trees in Islam was very impressed to me. I was nervous when I heard that ‘if you plant a tree or feed an animal, you will receive rewards in paradise’, because I was about to kill my plants in my home and I even did so many times before. Also, I wondered why Islamic people pigs are cursed or dirty animal while they care other animals.


Daoism’s Ying Yang harmony of nature reminded me Korea’s flag. As you can see, the blue and red are balanced each other and represent origin of the universe. Each side has also meaning; according to Daoism, those are sky, fire, water and earth. Therefore, I found more interested on Daoism.

From the presentation, I learned religions are related their environment and I could understand how all religions care their environment. Our environment is important for everybody even if they are believed in different religion because they think environment and living things are God’s creation that they have to keep it clean.