When Man is defined in some kind of domination role such as found within the Judaeo-Christian worldview (i.e., And God said to [Man], Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.) then the aggressive discourse that results severs any kind of harmony that could be found between the various elements of nature. It’s interesting to me that the dominion principle did not hit its full stride until Christianity came along and took such “commands” literally. The early Hebrew tribes took such dominion to be metaphoric and lived very much as a pastoral and agricultural people in harmony with the land. Anywhere Everywhere that Christianity has gone, the rape and destruction of the natural world was the inevitable result—and almost always in the name of capitalist profits.
Christian Environmental Domination
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February
Category: 2009
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