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- From: shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit)
- Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:49:43 GMT
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- In article <C17zJ0.53J@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- >But the idea of dominion has been abused
- >by many Christians, and I think the author of the original quote believed that
- >the best way to remedy this situation would be to get rid of the idea being
- >abused. Not that I necessarily agree with her.
-
- Try "him". Lynn White, Jr. is a man.
-
- Jeff Shallit
-
- "[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.
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