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- From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
- Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
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- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:41 EST
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- In article <C19Fqw.D0s@math.uwaterloo.ca>, shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca
- (Jeffrey Shallit) writes...
-
- >"[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.
-
- >That is, the problems are due to a Christian *axiom*, not to all
- >of Christianity.
-
- So. Who made it an axiom? Not me. Not my church. Nobody else I know.
- White, maybe? How is this axiom played out?
-
- >I have already made one request that you read the original article.
- >Have you done so yet? (I doubt it.)
-
- Nothing gets me upset sooner than an assumption like this. Make all the
- requests you want. Just get it through your head that when someone
- disagrees with you, it doesn't mean they can't, won't or don't read
- what you write. It primarily means they disagree with you.
-
- >As I have already said once, White himself is an historian and a
- >Christian, and the article supports his thesis quite well.
-
- I don't care if White is the Archbishop of Canterbury. I reserve the
- right to disagree with him. If your summation of his article is any
- indication, I will not be a whole lot less likely to disagree with him
- after I finish reading it. I have only two choices: to disagree with
- his thesis, or with your summation of it.
-
- RG
-
- "With great power comes great responsibility." - Spider-Man
-