How Christianity reinforces the anti environmentalism movement
... Christianity enables man to use the natural world to his own ends, without repercussions, with a number of its basic tenants. ... This dominance over nature also implies we may destroy any animal we see as a pest without regard to its place in the biotic community, “making”, according to Lynn White, “Christianity the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen. ... ” Outside of Genesis, Christianity promotes divine forgiveness for any act, so long as there is faith in Jesus Christ. ... There was no such thing as ecology or environmentalism when the Bible was written, and it was assumed the Earth provided an endless amount of resources for it’s most important creature, Man. ... Another common objection to moving away from Christianity entirely is that we’ve been interpreting the Bible incorrectly, and it does, in fact, contain ecologically friendly ideals. Jeanne Kay holds that incorrect translations, and emphasis of the wrong passages vilified the Bible, and that by rethinking our interpretations we can make an eco-friendly Christianity. Certainly her interpretation the Bible, including the joint creation of human and animal souls, is a marked movement toward animism. ... Christianity’s spreading brought with it the spread of totalitarian agriculture to previously ecologically sound cultures.