Category: quote
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“…the thought of the church participating and even sanctioning it pushes me right over the edge.”
The realization of creation’s inclusion in God’s reconciliation project should disturb us, for we have done great violence to the earth and its inhabitants. By assaulting creation we have assaulted ourselves and thwarted God’s will for the world. Based on a fault theology of dominion, the church has helped to perpetuate the idea that the…
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“There is nothing to be done. This is the way things are. It is inevitable.”
It is altogether probable that there is an executive of an air-polluting industry who has a beloved child who suffers from asthma caused by air pollution. In such a situation the Sympathetic Mind cries, “Stop! Change your life! Quit your job! At least try to discover the cause of the harm and do something about it!”…
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“…hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition to violence has been selective or merely fashionable.”
In our century of almost universal violence of humans against fellow humans and against our natural and cultural commonwealth, hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition to violence has been selective or merely fashionable. Some of us who approve of our monstrous military budget and our peacekeeping wars nonetheless deplore ‘domestic violence’ and think that…
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“They’re so easy to kill, birds…”
This, from Elizabeth Bruenning in the Washington Post about the Trump administration’s decision not to enforce the Migratory Bird Treaties Act, is so beautifully said and so profoundly sad. They’re so easy to kill, birds; or rather, the power of human industry is so profound that only a little carelessness — the slightest abdication of…
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“And for the first time I felt my nakedness.”
For several years I lived in what seems to me now to have been a very general way. My major aim was to keep writing, and I had done so by taking advantage of random opportunities, traveling here and there, living a year or two in one place and a year or two in another. And…
David W. Swanson 