Thursday, July 02, 2009

The Death of Nature

Michael Moore wrote: “The things we call "cars" may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million daggers into the heart of Mother Nature. To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet.”

Well, due to the billions of people now inhabiting our planet, nature is also dying the death of a billion cuts.

Now we are told Nature is God’s creation and we humans should respect God’s work. Indeed, we should. But then again why should we when we have been indoctrinated to believe in our schools, colleges, and universities that there is a better world to come after death? God himself tells us to love not this world, neither the things that are in the world? In fact, according to the bible, if you love the world, the love of God is not with you!

Indeed, we continue to believe that this world of nature and the flesh is something low and depraved and unworthy and therefore of little concern or consequences for those who seek the eternal life with God. After all, this natural world is merely a stopover on our journey to the next world. Therefore the less attention placed on it, the more attention placed on God’s kingdom, the better? Is it any wonder I ask that this world, our world, is a world degraded by stupid religion?

That is why as atheists we think nothing matters in this world except that which affects humanity. To hell with childish divinity. Poch Suzara

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