J.M. Mikkalsson wrote: I find it ironic that Chris Hedges wrote in American Fascists, in 2006, that "the popular Christian textbook America's Providential History cites Genesis which calls for mankind to have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." The book teaches students that "Christians primary responsibility is to create material wealth. God will oversee the increase and protection of natural resources. America's Providential History belittles secular environmentalists who see natural resources as fragile and limited and says of those who hold these concerns that they 'lack faith in God's Providence and consequently men will find fewer natural resources... the Christian knows that the potential in God is unlimited and that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth.'
These are the people supporting that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth!'
These are the people supporting Project 2025. And yet, hardly anyone says outloud that this is the vision now driving our Nation's policies and laws.
I really appreciate this context. It makes me regret cutting the photo of the body of a cow lodged high in a tree in Kerr County after the river receded. I made a biblical association to it.
I cannot even wrap my head around that conception of providence, but it’s helpful to know.
Hedges's book is worth a read. Matthew Taylor's The Violent Take It By Force is an incredible eye-opener. Scary. And 'yes' to the photo of the cow and the biblical association. You can still put it back in, just edit the post. Then it will be there in the archive.
The Canadian wildfires are doubly erased—I'm noting the handout photo you used. Unfortunately it's a practice that's become commonplace in Canada where the combination of an under-resourced media with the normalization of excluding journalists means we rarely see first hand the impacts of such disasters.
J.M. Mikkalsson wrote: I find it ironic that Chris Hedges wrote in American Fascists, in 2006, that "the popular Christian textbook America's Providential History cites Genesis which calls for mankind to have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." The book teaches students that "Christians primary responsibility is to create material wealth. God will oversee the increase and protection of natural resources. America's Providential History belittles secular environmentalists who see natural resources as fragile and limited and says of those who hold these concerns that they 'lack faith in God's Providence and consequently men will find fewer natural resources... the Christian knows that the potential in God is unlimited and that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth.'
These are the people supporting that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth!'
These are the people supporting Project 2025. And yet, hardly anyone says outloud that this is the vision now driving our Nation's policies and laws.
I really appreciate this context. It makes me regret cutting the photo of the body of a cow lodged high in a tree in Kerr County after the river receded. I made a biblical association to it.
I cannot even wrap my head around that conception of providence, but it’s helpful to know.
Hedges's book is worth a read. Matthew Taylor's The Violent Take It By Force is an incredible eye-opener. Scary. And 'yes' to the photo of the cow and the biblical association. You can still put it back in, just edit the post. Then it will be there in the archive.
The Canadian wildfires are doubly erased—I'm noting the handout photo you used. Unfortunately it's a practice that's become commonplace in Canada where the combination of an under-resourced media with the normalization of excluding journalists means we rarely see first hand the impacts of such disasters.