1/ In pagan cultures, people kept alive a sense of divine partnership between humanity and nature. Rituals were held routinely to fortify the bond between people and trees, rivers, earth and sky.
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2/ An early dispensation of Christendom destroyed that sacred connection, calling it blasphemous & replacing it with the idea that God had given earth to man to use for his utilitarian purposes. That split was for all intents and purposes the beginning of our environmental crisis

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3/ The attitudinal and philosophical split between humanity and nature has caused extraordinary damage not only to nature but also to ourselves. The industrialized, rationalistic and materialistic perspectives of the 20th C fortified the split and did tremendous collective harm.
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4/ The 21st C has brought a reckoning with a worldview so out of alignment with who we truly are, as well as a rebirth of understanding that a purely material explanation of the world will never satisfy either the needs or longings of the human race. It is time for repair & reset
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The early dispensation of Christianity was to put an end to the practice of ritual human sacrifice to appease the angry gods once & for all & its precisely this kind of dehumanizing barabarism that is retutning again w/ the decline of Christianity, mainly among our ruling elites.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Indeed, we're caretakers. Not "dominators". Once again, you've done excellent research. I dig that! This is why you rock. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It wasn't *Christianity that made this split. It was the concrete militarism of the Roman State once it made "Christianity" the state religion. Roman culture c. 40 AD was still basically warlike. Wars don't cultivate nature, they r*pe and pillage Her.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
So not worshipping nature became responsible for the exploitation/destruction of it? Christian worship is not about monetary gain - industrialization and materialism is. May explain how, with the advent of neoliberalism, the world went on warp speed destruction.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
If that’s what you think the Genesis stories reveal, then your problem starts with Judaism. If you want people to blame for an instrumental view of nature, blame the industrialists. In the Jewish scriptures, humans are part of Creation and tasked to be caretakers of it.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The hunter-gathering culture seems attractive sometimes because of our spiritual longing. An unpleasant version of it however, may be forced upon later generations if we do not get it right in ours.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Check out Islam sis 🙏🏽
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congrats, nobodies stopping u from praying to ur ooga booga rocks lol
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