When I was ten years old I saw the 'abortion episode' of the Maude TV series. I had never heard the word before, so I asked my mom what it meant. She said that sometimes mommies don't want to be mommies. I immediately asked why would anyone not want to be a mom. She said it was lots of reasons and that she and my dad weren't trying to have children when they made us (my brother and me) and were using birth control (I learned a lot that night). At least they tried.
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." I have heard this passage used to justify our negative effects on the planet.
When did man split off from his fellow animals and got smart (and stupid)? Was it when we started watering the land and plowing our fields so that we could cheat the planet into supporting more of us than it otherwise could? I don't know, but the evolutionary event (mistake?) can only be described as catastrophic to other living beings and the globe itself along with its atmosphere.
I know we all know about pollution, species loss, etc. I highly recommend the book The Sixth Extinction if you want to see how deeply and intricately we're killing this place. The author outlines the five great extinctions that occurred prior to man's appearance. They had various causes (volcanoes, environment change, asteroids...). But this sixth extinction has a different kind of cause; the wanderings, inventions and destructiveness of a single specie. Is this what God meant by man ruling over it all?
As soon as man got smart he got stupid. Smart wouldn't exist without stupid. Like everything we touch: cancer treatment wouldn't exist without cancer, which wouldn't exist to its current degree if we didn't poison our own environment and our bodies. We wouldn't know peace without war. Where are we now? Oh yeah the Christians and the Muslims are at it again.
We are warriors and peaceniks, inventors and destroyers, lovers and killers. We even invented a deity to tell us (in our own words) that the earth and its other inhabitants are ours to do with as we please (just my belief, not trying to troll).
Are we now finally smart enough to see the errors of our ways (and beliefs) and do something about it?.............nah...................Will we ever be? How deep into ruin will we take this place before we have to change?
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." I have heard this passage used to justify our negative effects on the planet.
When did man split off from his fellow animals and got smart (and stupid)? Was it when we started watering the land and plowing our fields so that we could cheat the planet into supporting more of us than it otherwise could? I don't know, but the evolutionary event (mistake?) can only be described as catastrophic to other living beings and the globe itself along with its atmosphere.
I know we all know about pollution, species loss, etc. I highly recommend the book The Sixth Extinction if you want to see how deeply and intricately we're killing this place. The author outlines the five great extinctions that occurred prior to man's appearance. They had various causes (volcanoes, environment change, asteroids...). But this sixth extinction has a different kind of cause; the wanderings, inventions and destructiveness of a single specie. Is this what God meant by man ruling over it all?
As soon as man got smart he got stupid. Smart wouldn't exist without stupid. Like everything we touch: cancer treatment wouldn't exist without cancer, which wouldn't exist to its current degree if we didn't poison our own environment and our bodies. We wouldn't know peace without war. Where are we now? Oh yeah the Christians and the Muslims are at it again.
We are warriors and peaceniks, inventors and destroyers, lovers and killers. We even invented a deity to tell us (in our own words) that the earth and its other inhabitants are ours to do with as we please (just my belief, not trying to troll).
Are we now finally smart enough to see the errors of our ways (and beliefs) and do something about it?.............nah...................Will we ever be? How deep into ruin will we take this place before we have to change?