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- From: swkmorri@nuscc.nus.sg (Perry Morrison (Dr))
- Subject: Re: the threat from animal-rights and environmentalists
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.044146.23454@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:41:46 GMT
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- In an amazing post against the environmental movement (presumably)
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- mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:
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- : The religious aspects of these movements can not be overlooked; although
- : allegedly they reject the Judeo-Christian ``man have dominance over all of
- : nature'' ethic, they have not replaced it with an Atheistic viewpoint (which
- : would be one of strict scientific rationality). Rather, these movements
- : adhere to New Age mysticism, and are determined to sweep aside all infidels.
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- Hmmm. It always seemed odd to me that those with a traditional christian
- outlook interpreted the "dominance over nature" thing as an invitation to do
- whetever the f***k they liked to nature. Dominion might also imply
- responsiblity, husbandry, nurturance etc.
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- As for the rest of this post, I was utterly amazed by it's narrowmindedness.
- I thought such views were only held by stereotypic characters on American
- TV. You mean they DO exist? Wow! The tax man's here maw, where's ma shotgun.
- Sorry, but I'm laughing too much to type anymore.
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- Perry Morrison
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