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At 07:56 AM 11/3/2004 -0600, you wrote:
As long as words like "cranks" are used to describe a massive portion of the Dear Jenifer: I am in no mood for debating anything this morning, but I suppose I own a response. First, my reference to "cranks" was mainly a characterization of my own responses. But I apologize if you were offended. I know there is an "environmental stewardship" line of thought within various christian groups. I have very occasionally been invited to talk at a church by people with these interests. This line of thought, however much we like it, doesn't seem to resonate well with the fundamental tenets of most flavors of christianity--which seem to me to be based on aggression and claims of superiority over other ways of doing and being. So it should be encouraged but I don't know how much is realistically to be expected, at least in the short run. I hope you are right and it is "burgeoning." As I read the Grist piece it struck me that many people view "environmentalism" as a sort of perverted religion of its own. And one can claim that our concerns over global warming--for example--deserve to be rejected a just another End Time concern. We are the cranks. A couple of times a week I get emails from people I know and like, and who are concerned about cancer and pollution, circulating info about how "environmentalists" are trying to depopulate the planet of humans, turn the US government over to the United Nations, and suchlike. The bible-waving pols are not concerned with accommodation, or understanding, they are concerned about victory (over "us") Last night they won a very important battle, no? Alan -----Original Message----- "Innumerable suns exist; innumerable 'earths' revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets [sic] revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." GIORDANO BRUNO, scientist/philosopher -burnt at the stake in 1600 for his"astronomical heresy" |
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