Thank you for sharing. Thank you for being you. Loved hearing the update. I’m excited to see where this leads you and am fascinated by the agricultural/corn part that is in play. I’m glad you’re not giving up.
There’s a belief held by much of conservative 'Christianity' that to defend the natural environment from the planet’s greatest polluters, notably the fossil fuel industry, is to go against God’s will and is therefore inherently evil. Many even credit the bone-dry-vegetation areas uncontrollably burning in California seemingly every year — not to mention much of the Los Angeles region this month — to some divine wrath upon that state’s collective liberal sinfulness.
One wonders how the Divine actually feels when observing all of this inferno and extreme-theism insanity?
As Brazil’s (previous) president, Jair Bolsonaro had recklessly allowed the rainforest to be razed by both meat farmers and wildfires. Incredibly, in the midst of yet another unprecedented wildfire during the summer of 2019, the evangelical-Christian president declared that his presidency — and, I presume, all of the formidable environmental damage he inflicts while in power — is somehow divine: “It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority. I am fulfilling a mission from God.”
Strangely enough though not surprising, early on Nov.6 Donald Trump stated: “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.”
As Canada’s (previous) prime minister, Stephen Harper, who also is an evangelical Christian, was unrelenting in his pro-fossil-fuel/anti-natural-environment war against science. [As PM, Harper also felt compelled to take a group of 208 people with him to the Holy City, Jerusalem, in 2014. The entourage included 21 rabbis along with some representatives from Crossroads Christian Communications, Trinity Bible Church, the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada and Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom.]
Jesus fundamentally was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of poverty. He clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people — especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.
As for Jesus, he was/is largely meant to show to people that there really was/is hope for the many — especially for young people living in today’s physical, mental and spiritual turmoil — seeing hopelessness in a fire-and-brimstone angry-God-condemnation creator requiring literal pain-filled penance/payment for sinful human behavior.
I’m talking about the biblical Jesus, through his teachings and practices — not human-concocted pragmatism, politics or conservative/liberal goals. The same Jesus who would not roll his eyes and sigh: ‘Oh well, I’m against everything the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more what his political competition stands for?’
This is really good, Joshua. This feels special, like you’ve found some magic sauce somehow. A poetic, corny, magical sauce. 🫰🏼
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Thank you for sharing. Thank you for being you. Loved hearing the update. I’m excited to see where this leads you and am fascinated by the agricultural/corn part that is in play. I’m glad you’re not giving up.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
There’s a belief held by much of conservative 'Christianity' that to defend the natural environment from the planet’s greatest polluters, notably the fossil fuel industry, is to go against God’s will and is therefore inherently evil. Many even credit the bone-dry-vegetation areas uncontrollably burning in California seemingly every year — not to mention much of the Los Angeles region this month — to some divine wrath upon that state’s collective liberal sinfulness.
One wonders how the Divine actually feels when observing all of this inferno and extreme-theism insanity?
As Brazil’s (previous) president, Jair Bolsonaro had recklessly allowed the rainforest to be razed by both meat farmers and wildfires. Incredibly, in the midst of yet another unprecedented wildfire during the summer of 2019, the evangelical-Christian president declared that his presidency — and, I presume, all of the formidable environmental damage he inflicts while in power — is somehow divine: “It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority. I am fulfilling a mission from God.”
Strangely enough though not surprising, early on Nov.6 Donald Trump stated: “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.”
As Canada’s (previous) prime minister, Stephen Harper, who also is an evangelical Christian, was unrelenting in his pro-fossil-fuel/anti-natural-environment war against science. [As PM, Harper also felt compelled to take a group of 208 people with him to the Holy City, Jerusalem, in 2014. The entourage included 21 rabbis along with some representatives from Crossroads Christian Communications, Trinity Bible Church, the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada and Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom.]
Jesus fundamentally was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of poverty. He clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people — especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.
As for Jesus, he was/is largely meant to show to people that there really was/is hope for the many — especially for young people living in today’s physical, mental and spiritual turmoil — seeing hopelessness in a fire-and-brimstone angry-God-condemnation creator requiring literal pain-filled penance/payment for sinful human behavior.
I’m talking about the biblical Jesus, through his teachings and practices — not human-concocted pragmatism, politics or conservative/liberal goals. The same Jesus who would not roll his eyes and sigh: ‘Oh well, I’m against everything the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more what his political competition stands for?’