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Neo's avatar
Jul 17Edited

Might I suggest this essay, which seems to me complementary to your own (though from a somewhat different "direction")?

Christianity and The Survival of Creation

By Wendell Berry

https://www.ecofaithrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BerryWendell_ChristianitySurvivalCreation.pdf

An excerpt:

"The sense of the holiness of life" is not compatible with an exploitive economy. You

cannot know that life is holy if you are content to live from economic practices that daily destroy life and diminish its possibility. And many if not most Christian organizations

now appear to be perfectly at peace with the military-industrial economy and its

"scientific" destruction of life. Surely, if we are to remain free, and if we are to remain

true to our religious inheritances, we must maintain a separation between church and

state. But if we are to maintain any sense or coherence or meaning in our lives, we

cannot tolerate the present utter disconnection between religion and economy. By

"economy" I do not mean "economics," which is the study of money-making, but rather

the ways of human housekeeping, the ways by which the human household is situated

and maintained within the household of Nature. To be uninterested in economy is to be

uninterested in the practice of religion; it is to be uninterested in culture and in character.

Probably the most urgent question now faced by people who would adhere to the Bible is

this: What sort of economy would be responsible to the holiness of life? What, for

Christians, would be the economy, the practices and the restraints, of "right livelihood"? I

do not believe that organized Christianity now has any idea. I think its idea of a Christian

economy is no more or less than the industrial economy--which is an economy firmly

founded upon the seven deadly sins and the breaking of all ten of the Ten

Commandments. Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter

and comforter of profitable iniquities, then Christians, regardless of their organizations,

are going to have to interest themselves in economy--which is to say, in nature and in

work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live

without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of

Creation as the only way of life.

And speaking of murder...

And now the wheels of heaven stop

You feel the devil's riding crop

Get ready for the future:

It is murder

Leonard Cohen ~ The Future, 1992

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thelightpaper's avatar

Excellent stuff as ever Francis, thank you!

What do you make of the notion that we are living post-millenium; Jesus has reigned and we are now in the little season of world deception before the final armageddon and judgement day?

There are too many holes for me, but many believe this is where we are in the timeline..

Peace :-)

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