As we all know, most religions preach about charity right? I'm sure that if you look in the bible or any other religious text, you'll probably find a line or two about taking care of the natural world. That it is only right for humans to protect the earth when it gives us its harvest and protection.
Moving onto a similar topic, lately there has been a lot of talk about the killing of elephants for ivory in Africa. Now, both the PETA, who I personally have a specific opinion on which I will not say here, and probably a lot of churches, temples and other religious parties probably would preach about how we should be helping and saving the elephants. Yet despite this, there are several religions that use ivory for their religious statues, charms, and other related items.
Take for example Thailand. The elephant is their sacred symbol, so you'd think they'd do their best to save it right? Take a close look and you'll see that Thailand uses ivory in mass for carvings and amulets. Christy from National Geographic took a trip to Thailand to investigate. After some interviews with the Elephant Monk, she found a quite ironic ivory statue of Guanyin. Did I mention that Guanyin is the goddess of mercy?
Source:
National Geographic
Chron Blog
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