ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the relationship between religious story and environmental story as a means of understanding the seeming relationship between biblical literalism and lack of concern for the environment and addresses the question of religious story and AIDS victims. Biblical literalism correlates negatively with environment concern, as doe’s belief in God and Christian affiliation. Those biblical literalists who are politically and religiously and ethically "liberal" are as likely to be concerned with the environment as their non-Fundamentalist counterparts. In the United States the correlations between religious and environmental attitudes seem to be spurious. The grace scale, a factor measuring benign imagery of God correlated significantly with all five of the environmental factors. Catholics in particular are more likely to support it because of the impact a benign image of God has on their worldview. Catholics are indeed more likely to support increased spending on the environment than Protestants but less than non-Christians.
