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the Muslim world is utterly deranged by its religious tribalism. via The Reality of Islam : : Sam Harris. Yeah, Sam, if you want to , for a bit, focus on the cruelties and mass killings of athiestic regimes, is this a result of their atheism? I would say not, and so would you. And yet when it comes to Continue Reading
In 2007, the Southern Baptist Convention drew on this passage in a resolution on global warming declaring that Christians should exercise dominion over the Earth, and that the U.S. government should reject mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Peach_Baptists and Climate Change.pdf Why, of course they did. Probably THE most accommodating mainline denom of all. Of course, that is assuming Continue Reading
You can’t draw a line between an organism and its environment for the reason that organisms don’t just live in their environment; the environment also lives in them. via Creation Care in the Great Economy: A Conversation with Wendell Berry | Unbound. STRONG Ecotheology. Conspicuous absence of good theology in vast sections of the church in America.
Found this site on a Google search of Ecology, Theology. Sounds theologically consistent with what I has formed in me regarding a theological perspective of both the Occupy Movements and now , The People’s Climate movement , after the big happenings in NY prior to the UN Summit, and in my reading Naomi Klein’s excellent new book This Changes Everything: Continue Reading
At Union Theological Seminary, a remarkably diverse group of more than 200 religious and spiritual leaders will gather for the Religions for the Earth conference. Representing Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, the Pacific nations and the Arctic, these leaders will bring a much-needed moral perspective to the climate crisis. They represent billions of people of faith. via Religions for Continue Reading
Wrote a response just now to the below comment (which is in a rather long moderation process on the site where it was posted), so I thought to myself, WHY WAIT? I’ll just do my own conversation with immediate feedback, and let the guy know I have replied, and invite others to the conversation. ColtsFan254 • a month ago Continue Reading
while the Islamic State is superficially and opportunistically Islamic, it owes at least as much to secular revolutionary ideologies as to its claimed religion, and borrows heavily from Western systems of organization and pop culture as well. via Why The Islamic State Is Not Really Islamic – The Intercept. This is precisely my comeback to the “New Atheists” who display Continue Reading
The criticism Dr. King received for these stances was fierce, and media coverage even among the outlets that had given sympathetic perspectives on the Civil Rights marches in the South began to echo the J. Edgar Hoover accusations that Dr. King was a Communist and subversive. via MLK and the struggle for environmental justice.. Malcolm X is depicted as telling Continue Reading
As I read Naomi Klein’s ThisChangesEverything, I am also winding down the final chapters of Tavis Smiley’s book Death of a King, about MLK’s final years, where he was offending a good portion of his following becuase they saw him as “Venturing out” from Race to issues (like war and economics) that many were saying were “beyond his province”; “Stick Continue Reading
Slavery was as profitable as fossil fuel, but we still overcame it (or perhaps not quite, but we made good headway). via Book review: Naomi Klein finds kernels of hope amid climate change and untamed capitalism. So if something as profitable and ingrained in culture as slavery was finally defeated, can we not have hope that unfettered capitalism can be Continue Reading
From the co-author of Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude, a review of Thomas Pikkety’s landmark work of 2013, Capital in the 21st Century. Some select quotes from the review: For those aware of the basic orthodoxies of contemporary economics, Piketty’s work presents substantial arguments. The most important of these is a well-documented rejection of the widespread assumption that Continue Reading
via RealClimate: Start here. Here’s a list suggested by a reader of realclimate): http://climatedenial.org http://climateprogress.org http://www.climatesciencewatch.org http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com http://deconsumption.typepad.com http://www.globalissues.org http://globalisation-and-the-environment.blogspot.com http://fergusbrown.wordpress.com http://initforthegold.blogspot.com http://www.realclimate.org http://reasic.com – See more at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/#sthash.vAquKrY1.dpuf
process of convincing very wealthy people that this really was a problem, and that there really were costs down the road and that in the long term it would be better to prevent it from happening. via Naomi Klein on Cause of Climate Crisis: “Capitalism Is Stupid”. This has always been found to be true. The cost of cleanup and Continue Reading
via Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech – YouTube.