permaculture

[Gregory Konger <gjkonger@yahoo.com>]

> In 1967, Lynn White, jr. wrote: "No new set of basic values has been
> accepted in our society to displace those of Christianity.  Hence we shall
> continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian
> axiom that nature has no reason to exist save to serve man."
 
The values of Christianity are not against nature, but for it, to respect all 
of God's creation.  St. Francis called all creatures his brothers and 
sisters.  Just recently, Pope Benedict declared on CNN that it is a sin not 
to be green.  He quoted in my Catholic newspaper that ecology is the key to 
understanding why sin is bad, and why we should turn away from it.  All 
priests practice celebacy and so do I which means we are not contributing to 
the problem of overpopulation and other hurtful sexual sins that keeps us 
from becoming a sharing community. I believe that the message of Christ in 
the BIBLE is very ecological and environmental.  In the Gospel it says that 
birds neither reap nor sow, but yet the Father still feeds them.  Doesn't 
that sound ecological?  From the messages I read on this board, they share a 
lot of the same values that Christ taught.  Please do not write off 
Christianity.
 
Greg Konger


       
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