I love Marianne very much, but this is not true. The idea that pagans had a better or more "holistic" approach to the environment is a romantic myth. Ancient peoples strip-mined, overfished, overhunted, deforested, and poisoned the land as much as Christians or Jews or Muslims.
Marianne Williamson
 @marwilliamson
22 Apr 2021
1/ In a very real way, the shift from a pagan earth-based spirituality to the patriarchal Christian notion of man’s right to dominate nature was a causal factor contributing to what would one day become our environmental crisis.
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Replying to @numinouscosmos
They weren’t even enough of them to do what you’re saying.

Apr 22, 2021 · 6:35 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Marianne, what definition are you applying to pagan? Any pre-Christian people? Did not the whole Roman Empire, which did all of the aforementioned things, qualify as pagans?
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You’re right that the Romans did not practice earth-based spirituality but many pagan religions and indigenous cultures did and do. Correct?
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