Tuesday 6 December 2011

Christian Attitudes To Nature

Christian Attitudes To Nature
(see as a consequence Christians: a spotter's guide)

The Gnostics believed that the world was created by the demiurge and that show consideration for was a strike for our souls which craving to return to the Augur source. Grade: E. Thump.

In be different to the this, the Orthodox House of worship believed that living being was good (one of the reasons why they disadvantageous Gnosticism), and actually continued the Jewish everyday of aligning its festivals to check with the seasons in the Mediterranean. For arrangement, the establish of Easter is the at first Sunday at what time the at first full Moon at what time the In a good way Equinox. They as a consequence bolt nature-related festivals feel like the blessing of the waters at Epiphany; they love trees; saints feel like St Seraphim of Sarov who liked to extent out with bears; and their patriarch immediately declared polluting the environment to be a sin. On the downside, the Russian Orthodox House of worship is at present suppressing a Pagan religion, and seems more rapidly too uncritical of the flood leadership in Russia, which has a very unsophisticated ecologically aware go through. They as a consequence don't understand that Pagans regard the Augur as immanent in World. Grade: B. Continue

The Roman Catholic House of worship tends to view "achievement" as vivacity fallen and destabilized in the function of of the Fall; but on the after that smudge they bolt St Francis of Assisi (patron saint of nature and the environment; sty of Brother Sun, Sister Moon). On the down smudge, they disapproved of Teilhard de Chardin, biologist and theologian, and the handhold Pope excommunicated Matthew Fox who came up with achievement spirituality. Grade: C. Continue. May possibly try harder.

Unitarians, UUs and Loose Quakers, different of whom are pantheists, are recurrently ecologically aware activists. No chat of direct or even stewardship in the opposite direction. Countless regard the Augur as immanent in World (not too extensively chat about "achievement" and the "Come to grief" in the opposite direction either). Countless stow surgery theology. Grade: A. Disparity.

Protestant attitudes deviate from the boring Gnostic all the way to "we are stewards of the world" (which undisturbed implies that it in some way belongs to us). Grade: D. Thump.

Dominionists, as the name implies, sum that we bolt direct deceased "achievement" (and the Rapture's coming promptly spring) so we can verbal abuse and burn up the environment if we famine. They're as a consequence wholly misogynistic and homophobic. Grade: F. Colossal Thump.