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| ufo muse |
 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:56 am |
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It was a perfect place, when you read the biblical story until God took
a rib from adam and made Eve. Eve polluted the garden. Leave it to
women to ruin Godly perfection. Now the sierra club has a plan to bring
back the garden of eden and all it takes is an American Express card.
ALIEN LUNCH Any One? Accept no immitations. |
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| Tim Miller |
| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:21 pm |
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alienlunch@webtv.net (ufo muse) wrote in message news:<2805-3FDE2009-387@storefull-2314.public.lawson.webtv.net>...
Quote: It was a perfect place, when you read the biblical story until God took
a rib from adam and made Eve. Eve polluted the garden. Leave it to
women to ruin Godly perfection. Now the sierra club has a plan to bring
back the garden of eden and all it takes is an American Express card.
ALIEN LUNCH Any One? Accept no immitations.
I think you're on to something. From
http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote05.html:
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is
environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice
for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at
the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is
in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional
Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with
nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a
result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our
actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy
sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called
sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the
environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that
pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs,
imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these
are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative
beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I
certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, as I don't want to
talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who
rose from the dead. But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of
these beliefs is that I know that I can't talk anybody out of them.
These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.
And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems
facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all
about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or
saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of
salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of
us, or one of them.
Am I exaggerating to make a point? I am afraid not. Because we know a
lot more about the world than we did forty or fifty years ago. And
what we know now is not so supportive of certain core environmental
myths, yet the myths do not die. Let's examine some of those beliefs.
There is no Eden. There never was. What was that Eden of the wonderful
mythic past? Is it the time when infant mortality was 80%, when four
children in five died of disease before the age of five? When one
woman in six died in childbirth? When the average lifespan was 40, as
it was in America a century ago. When plagues swept across the planet,
killing millions in a stroke. Was it when millions starved to death?
Is that when it was Eden? |
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| Vendicar Decarian |
| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:12 pm |
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"ufo muse" <alienlunch@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:2805-3FDE2009-387@storefull-2314.public.lawson.webtv.net...
Quote: It was a perfect place, when you read the biblical story until God took
a rib from adam and made Eve. Eve polluted the garden. Leave it to
women to ruin Godly perfection. Now the sierra club has a plan to bring
back the garden of eden and all it takes is an American Express card.
The bible has it backwards.
God took a boner from Eve and used it to make Adam.
Things went down hill from there.
Just one more mistake by the inept creator of all things. |
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| Vendicar Decarian |
| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 3:22 pm |
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There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with
nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of slavery as a
result of eating from the tree of government, and as a result of our
actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all socialist
sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called
the Free Market. The Free Market is salvation in the church of the
Capitalist. Just as pesticide laced food is its communion, that
pesticide-laced wafer that the far-right people with the far-right beliefs,
imbibe. |
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