Iowanic wrote:
Of course you can worship god after destruction of the very things god has given us. God's forgiveness and his wisdom to create humans as beings capable of learning and doing better after committing sins is well known to us who believe in being 'borne again'.
I believe in a bigger god then the one you seem to, Sushilydv. god isn't limited to the earth.
Thank god! [-o<
Pre-industrial society had religion..........Industrial society has religion industry........Every activity became destructive after industrialization........Religion became destructive after industrialization.
Religion did lead to hatred, violence and war in pre-industrial society but it did not destroy environment.
Pre-industrial religion did not destroy environment.
Industrial religion has destroyed environment.
Pre-industrial society had almost zero debate on religion because the medium for debate did not exist before industrialization........The problem of endless debate came with industrialization........Industrial society has billions of pages of debate on religion because of print industry, radio, television and internet.
Pre-industrial society had very few copies of religious texts because of the absence of paper industry and print industry........Industrial society has billions of copies of religious books........Printing of billions of copies of religious books has destroyed billions of Trees.......Industrial society has destroyed God's creation for printing religious books.
Pre-industrial society had very few places of worship.......There were very few temples, mosques or churches in pre-industrial society when cement industry, steel industry, construction industry and transportation industry did not exist.......Only the Kings and few other rich people could build structures for worship........Industrial society has millions of places of worship........It has millions of temples, mosques and churches.......Every colony in every city has a place of worship........Construction of millions of temples, mosques and churches has destroyed billions of Trees and millions of acres of fertile soil........Industrial society has destroyed God's creation for building temples, mosques and churches.
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Physical Work, Subjective Experience, Religion and Spirituality did not destroy the planet in millions of years..........Scientific / Technological Thinking has destroyed the planet in just hundred years.
We can use our time and energy for three kinds of activities........Physical Work, Subjective Work (Experience) and Mental Work.
For millions of years environment did not get destroyed because activity was limited to physical work or subjective experience.........Millions of animal species did physical work........Man did physical work in hunter_gatherer stage and agrarian stage.......A very small percentage of population that did not do physical work spent its time and energy on subjective experience - religion, spirituality, yoga, meditation, pranayama and the arts.
Largescale destruction of environment began when man started using his time and energy for mental work - Science, Technology, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Economics.........This led to invention of industrial machines running on Steam, Electricity and Oil........This led to industrialization and production (and selling) of thousands of consumer goods and services.
As long as we limited our activity to physical work, subjective experience, religion and spirituality we destroyed very little environment.
When we switched over to Scientific / Technological Thinking, we started producing (and selling) thousands of consumer goods in millions of industries and corporations and ended up destroying the planet in just about 100 years.
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