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Weirdly enough, it's the opposite, they think that God made the world for humanity, so it is fine and good even, if we completely destroy the place. They also think that humanity can't actually really effect things like extinctions because that is "god's domain" or whatever, so if a species goes extinct it is because god wants it too. (Why god would create a species solely for it to go extinct is never explained). They also think that Jesus and God will ascend the righteous to heaven any day now, so humanity's time on earth is going to be less than 6000 years total, and we're basically just sitting here waiting for god to finally come and pick us up.
It's absurd and ridiculous. It's kind of like housesitting for someone and just trashing the place on the grounds that "I'm currently staying here, but I won't be here forever, I'll leave when the guy who owns the place comes to pick me up and take me home." Not at all thinking about the idea that god might be pretty damn pissed off at them for wrecking the earth that he presumably worked so hard on for them.
It's almost as if it is less of a well thought out series of logical (if esoteric and faith based) beliefs and more of a series of increasingly bizarre justifications for taking the actions they already wanted to take.
Sure is nice of God to come up with a religion for them that lets them behave exactly how they want to with no repercussions or need to change their behaviour. He's clever like that I guess.
Honestly it is the ultimate synthesis of Christianity and Nietzsche. The saddest part is that it literally existed during his time period, he was just too much of a euro-centric to actually pay attention to what was happening in the U.S. with Protestant Christian ideology.