@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS The Medieval Church, being that one that preceded The Printing Press and industrialization and Reformation, did its major intercontinental "expansion" (aka "Conquest" via participation and their "blessing" upon those "Conquests" of other lands and their inhabitants). 1/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS Thus began the drive to "develop" and "landscape" (aka "Tera-form" those lands both physically and culturally in the image of Europe and its varied cultures). The enslavement of human bodies to do the "man-power" work can be said to have "led to" to the employment of long-dead 2/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS "Fossils" for fuels that replaced human "manpower" with "goods" pillaged from the earth, often and almost invariably by commandeering vast tracts of land around which these extractions took place, and "increasing" the GDP. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a stirring epilogue in his...3/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS excellent 2015 book "Between the World and Me" where he likens the transition from human labor to fossil fuel efficiencies to produce our unending GDP growth, and the economic dogma that emerged from that expectation. And so Fossil Fuels "must not be limited" in any way, ... 4/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS ...they say, and endeavor to ensure this through their economic hegemony over the politics of these neoliberal nations, expanding that endless growth ideology, which now is a boon primarily for the super rich, who care nothing for anything but their immediate comfort. 5/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS And, true to form, the Christianities of these neoliberal nations are "chaplains" for this economic exploitation, as the new "Manifest Destiny". It's an idolatrous appropriation of "the Kingdoms of this World", about which Jesus had declared "It should not be so among you". 6/
@Olivergill4B @violin4all @NBPTROCKS This all brings me to wonder what represents the 21st Century "Wittenburg Door" to which an EcoReformation should attach the tenets for an Ecological Civilization that should best represent the "Kingdom of God" against a world gone mad with oblivious destruction. 7/
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