Reversing Genesis: The Ransacking of Temple Earth

[peoli]

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and you made my inheritance detestable.
--Jeremiah 2: 7

If you were to enter a church, mosque, or synagogue determined to plunder it before burning it down, you would probably end up in custody. Do the same to Earth, temple and home to us all, and you might be eligible for a government subsidy. Isn't that strange?

When psychologists talk about splitting, they refer to the habit of keeping sectors of life that belong together divided into different compartments. The unhealed child abuse survivor grows up to forget that the parent who beat them savagely was the parent they now idealize as an exemplar of loving discipline. The producer of violent films forbids his children to watch them. The speed dater with a track record of ending up with exploitative men convinces herself, again, that this man is the one she's been waiting for. The troll who attends church on Sunday spends the rest of the week vilifying people online.

Splitting, an emotional defense of early childhood, has become a character disorder of American society. News networks whose politician guests pushed the disastrous war in Iraq but never landed in prison invite them back as learned experts on the current tumult in Mesopotamia. Conservatives presumably familiar with the Gospels -- "Love thy neighbor as thyself;" "If a man asks for your coat, give him your cloak as well;" "Remove the beam from thine own eye" -- call for the exclusion of entire populations from the benefits of society.





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Every world religion has issued a public statement calling for the protection of the rapidly failing natural world. The split between the natural and the spiritual is of historically recent origin.


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The land is Mine and you are but aliens and My tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
-- Leviticus 25:23-24


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-chalquist-phd/reversing-genesis-the-ran_b_5544903.html

[calimary]

1. What will we do? What WILL we do? There it is in LEVITICUS of all places!

OMG they're gonna go "Tilt!" Their precious Leviticus is rising up to bite them in the ass! WOW! Something in Leviticus that I can actually quote - and use!

[peoli]

2. !

[WhiteTara]

3. Yep, and I intend to use it in my campaign.