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The easiest way to destroy the Earth is to create a religion based on this: God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
The easiest way to destroy the Earth is to create a religion based on this:
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every
creature that crawls upon the earth."
Genesis 1:28
It basically tells you:
- Multiply without limits.
- You are more important than the environment and other species.
- Every species of plants and animals exist for your benefit.
These are profoundly destructive beliefs, and the root cause of how we arrived to our current mess, the Anthropocene extinction event.
There was a time when the Americas were populated by people that believed in living in harmony with the environment, but unfortunately they were all murdered and the ones that remained were forced to convert. 500 years later, a significant portion of what was carefully preserved for 10,000 years is gone.
If humanity is going to survive, you have to abandon such beliefs. You are not here to multiply without limits and, quite honestly, you are not more important than the environment. Stop with the overconsumption, the excessive travelling and all that nonsense. You are not as important as you think.
- drdeca 6y agoArticle is about destroying the planet itself, as in, making it cease to be as a planet, not merely destroying all life.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoSometimes I wonder how the world would look if that wasn't in the bible. Would people have behaved differently?
- 29athrowaway 6y agoLikely, I would be posting this from a flying car on Mars if it wasn't for the church. This now defunct website put it beautifully: https://web.archive.org/web/20050314130905/http://www.superstringtheory.org/history/history1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050314130905/http://www.supers... The church forced people to believe in the Geocentric model, they murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, they harassed the fuck out of Galileo, Kepler's family, and countless other scientists. Now they're all about preaching about forgiveness and altruism, but before they ruled people's lives with an iron fist. You cannot discover gravity if you believe in Geocentrism. Without gravity it's harder to get to the laws of motion. Without laws of motion you have no physics. And so on, so forth.