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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
- Message-ID: <63728@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:45:00 GMT
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- Organization: The Reality Liberation Front (pixels to the people!)
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- 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.
- >
- >I wasn't aware that the entire universe of Christian thought lay
- >at your fingertips, Mr. Graham. Could there possibly be Christian
- >axioms that you don't know explicitly?
-
- ...etc, etc. Gentlemen, take it to e-mail, please.
-
- ObQuote: (given the religious context, I couldn't
- resist) "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous
- debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting
- vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it
- would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than
- the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to
- corrupt and brutalize mankind." -- Thomas Paine
-
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- Tom Swiss/tms@cs.umd.edu | "Born to die" | Keep your laws off my brain!
- "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?" - Nick Lowe
- Keep your values off my family.
- Brooke's Law:
- Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
- discovers something which either abolishes the system or
- expands it beyond recognition.
-