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- From: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
- Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:47:19 GMT
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- In article <21JAN199310400459@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham) writes:
- >My point is, the quote by the original poster (by Lynn White, Jr.) puts the
- >problems of ecology everywhere in the world squarely at the feet of
- >Christianity.
-
- Actually, it didn't. It said:
-
- "[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until
- we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for
- existence save to serve man."
-
- -- Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our
- Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967),
- pp. 1203-1207.
-
- That is, the problems are due to a Christian *axiom*, not to all
- of Christianity.
-
- I have already made one request that you read the original article.
- Have you done so yet? (I doubt it.)
-
- As I have already said once, White himself is an historian and a
- Christian, and the article supports his thesis quite well.
-
- Go read it.
-
- Jeff Shallit
-