@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 @POTUS 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 @POTUS 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/

Trump is a walking , talking (barely, on both counts) disaster on the ecosystem of American politics, economics, and justice. The Republicans knew wo he was, and put him forth as "their candidate" because he can be bought with any promise of benefits to himself. /1 They are as guilty as the fossil fuel companies are for the ecological disasters of fossil fuels, because the fossil fuel companies KNEW the dangers and hid it from the public, for their own selfish gain. The Republican Party is also similarly guilty: They knew who Trump was 2/

Eco-Reformation* is needed! Nothing less, for STARTERS.
“It is now time for us to do a collective calling-in for our survival. And we’re going to need these folks who claim to hold the moral center of our hearts and our societies to actually understand that if ... 1/ ... you are neutral, says Bishop Desmond Tutu, in the face of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. We have to understand what moral leadership is and who’s worthy of informing our ethos.” —
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right? 2/

The U.S., and especially now, under the Trump regime: EcoCrisis Denial (tear down all structures and efforts to understand and detect Climate Change and other Ecological effects happening), Health System attacks (Underfund, and then , now, DE fund all health systems) 1/ Disaster readiness : Underfund, and now DE fund all warning systems, deny funding to any further research and planning for ongoing and continuing disasters, Education (Under fund, make more expensive while destroying the real value of that education by cutting education ....2/

“Real preparation is addressing risks before the disaster happens and then making sure we have a collective response to the disaster carefully planned out.” — Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (p. 352). Random House Kindle Ed. 1/ Just like the looming and already accelerating ecological rolling disasters. We have not been "ruggedizing". Instead, we've been exacerbating it all. We've been "willing" (aka "blinded" or "placated") complicit bystanders, denying that any of this is happening, or that... 2/

I am so struck right now (and most other times) at how concerned Bill McKibben was in '08 when he wrote what I'm now re-reading in "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future", and to see how much worse things have gotten, and much faster than he knew then. 1/ McKibben was much better informed (he saw to that by actually delving into the science and writing so effectively about it for a general audience) than most, but even those in the know have since been struck at how much faster things have moved toward the deeper crises.... 2/

The Gaza issue is, very realistically, NOT a religious issue, but a colonization and conquest issue....which is in the Bible from many directions, and examples exist of the wrong side of that, and, of the prophetic condemnation of that, within those same Scriptures; ....1/ ...of "Prophetic Imagination" that sees THROUGH that and recognizes the EVIL that is manifested in that. And there is a journey in that process of what we have in that collection. 2/

OK, here's the Space I have scheduled for tomorrow at 10 am Central time.
Pay attention to my "ground rules" or my "guidance" I am going to post as reply to this post. I think it may well veer wildly off topic if I don't do this.
x.com/i/spaces/1LyxB… Biblical Apocalypse has become associated with a lot of rather clueless theology concerning what Apocalypse actually is, or how it was intended to be used by the Biblical authors who employed it. It has ZERO to do with giving a "crystal ball" into events in the 20th-21st... 1/

Re: the need for a new/updated "Revelation" or "Apocalyptic" narrative that is "inspired" or motivated by the new ecological reality. It begins with the idea that the reason I'm suggesting this "re-opening of the canon" in order to "add some needed updates" (or "amendments")...1/ ...that start with the present reality, and how we've gotten here. The "unveil" here is the "vision" of what we've done. So the "common ground" relatable stuff is going to be primarily the job of the preacher or teacher, for the specifics. 2/

I just saw another list of problems of our present realities in America, and , once again, there is no mention of the Ecological hell we're continuing to build for ourselves and our children.
I posted this in reply:
1/ Worst of all, nobody's talking about the Ecological Crisis, despite our essentially having run out of time to do an achievable transition. The earlier we had begun this, the more affordable and less stressful of a change it would have been. Now we are pushing ...2/

I just read a series of tweets expressing disgust at the U.S. bombing Iran while a laundry list of woes in America , all exacerbated by the outright insane assault of MAGA/GOP/Trump, but once again, like so many "Progressive" critiques, fail to ...1/ ...even so much as mention the Ecological Crisis, as if it hasn't been bearing down on us for the last 30-40 years, and ever so much more apparent and accelerating in the past 5 years. This kind of continued neglect in our national consciousness is going to be ...2/

This "Opinion" is absolutely oblivious to reality. If you look at this writer's other works, it's typical of the media now. A few things about this (a long thread) : 1/
"Guess who Americans want to run the economy? Hint: It's not Democrats. | Opinion usatoday.com/story/opinion/… "Donald Trump's focus on the economy is why Americans elected him president."
This is an astounding thing to say; even more so that it is something that is taken seriously by anyone. Really? TRUMP's FOCUS? First of all, what is "FOCUS" with this guy? 2/

Another quote from my Wendell Berry reading that I just have to relay to you:
"Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to ... 1/ ...incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and ...2/

A Facebook post (see ) from a person I follow asks this question:
"THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY desperately needs a new leader to emerge, a combination of MLK jr., Angela Merkel, Fred Rogers and Fareed Zakaria. Not asking for much. Who’s in your combo?"buff.ly/I30Y71s So I made my contribution:
An Ecological preacher/teacher is needed here, too. MLK was likely to have become one had he lived longer (but had already been calling more attention to the ecological trends than most of his contemporaries). 2/

"... there are an enormous number of people—and I am one of them—whose native religion, for better or worse, is Christianity. We were born to it; we began to learn about it before we became conscious; it is, whatever we think of it, an intimate belonging of our being; ... 1/ ...it informs our consciousness, our language, and our dreams. We can turn away from it or against it, but that will only bind us tightly to a reduced version of it. A better possibility is that this, our native religion, should survive and renew itself so that it may become...2/

Back in the days of Neil Young's big hits ("Old Man", "Damage Done", "Southern Man", etc. ), I , as a 17-18 year old, thought his voice was weird, and I didn't pay much mind to his lyrics or narrative. Today's "me" likes his voice BECAUSE I hear his "voice" ...1/ A much needed unabashed critique. The music artists ought to all get together and do a "We Are the World" style recording of "This Land Is Your Land". For that matter, also the other artists: Filmmakers, photographers, painters, writers, etc. 2/

I believe that most of Western Civilization is all too happy to avail themselves of what I will call "Distraction Denial". That's a form of Climate Crisis denial that gravitates to "anything but". It's "anything but" calling attention to the gravity of the Ecological Crisis. 1/ Progressives are (and understandably, for obvious reasons) all into this, because of the many sub-crises that Trump/DOGE/MAGA are, often very flippantly, tearing down the scaffolding of infrastructures that have kept us, and our economy, from collapsing out of chaos.
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All this, but I SURE DO WISH that we could (at LEAST) mention that we STILL have an Ecological Crisis which demands "we pull out all stops" if we want to prevent ADDITIONAL/WORSE untold suffering, and avoid... 1/
substack.com/home/post/p-16… ... sinking into an unrecoverable hole of runaway Ecological collapse. ("Collapse" is from our human civilization perspective. Earth herself will not "collapse", but she will become increasingly uninhabitable.)
Yes, we **do** have to also "pull out all the stops" ... 2/

To reject a particular interpretation or implementation of something does not mean that one must reject that something itself. It merely means rejecting just that: the INTERPRETATION or IMPLEMENTATION of that something. 1/ No one (or very few, I expect) would say that we should all forms of governance, because of the Trump Administration's inept, cruel attempts to impose Project 2025 on the country. They are rising up and resisting because of the vision of something better: 2/

I've attended "Hands Off" rallies, and written/spoken widely to many others about the renegade, lawless, corrupt White House and GOP we have. But in seeing this happen across the country, as encouraging as this is, is also ... 1/ ... what SHOULD have been happening re: the Ecological Crisis for decades. That it has not is only indicative of the denial at work in most of the American public that we even have a crisis, so why take to the streets about it? 2/