RE: Irresponsible caretakers of Earth
April 2, 2018 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2018 at 9:04 am by Fake Messiah.)
Are humans devastating to the environment by nature? There is such a thing as human technological progress but problem with it is that it's also the most potent changer of human political system. The fact that most of humans today live in democracies owes exclusively to industrial revolutions.
So there is also a question of how much politicians are obstructing technological progress, because of the fear they might lose control? With huge jumps in technology ecological problems could be solved.
Of course all countries under dictatorships are very technologically underdeveloped and in other places you have Trump that want's to go back into the past and Putin that also gets all his power from selling gas... so who knows in the end.
So there is also a question of how much politicians are obstructing technological progress, because of the fear they might lose control? With huge jumps in technology ecological problems could be solved.
Of course all countries under dictatorships are very technologically underdeveloped and in other places you have Trump that want's to go back into the past and Putin that also gets all his power from selling gas... so who knows in the end.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
