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Why Ecotheology Is The Future of Religion
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Ecotheology is an ideology and interpretative approach to religion, which sees a sacredness to animals, people and protecting the environment. It thus combines the study of life and the environment, ecology, with the study of God and systems of belief, theology, which is where the name comes from. Ecotheology is not specific to any religion. In this video I will explain how it works and where it comes from, why it can be useful, and what some of the criticisms of it are. But first, if you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel. On we go.
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Ecotheology is primarily an interpretive approach to religion, meaning it reframes religions and the texts they rely on from the perspective of environmental protection. In my video on Liberation Theology for which I'll leave a link in the video description, this means viewing religious texts from the perspective of the poor and marginalised in society. Similarly, ecotheology interprets religious texts from the perspective of the situation of the earth and our relationship with it, or ecology. For example in Genesis 1:28, God gives humans dominion over the earth. The classical interpretation argues that this means the earth, and the animals on it, are ours to do what we want with. Eco theologiests argue however that this interpretation of our domination over the earth is a poor one, because of how it has led to climate change and extinction. Instead, an interpretation hinting at a more equal relationship would make us more likely to protect the earth and thus fulfil ecological aims. a better word might thus be dominion with the earth, or stewardship over it, where there is still a kind of equality between us and the environment around us. In other words, Dominion can still be used, but not if it means domination. Another example of this interpretative technique is in the added emphasis that an eco theologist might give Psalm 24:1. In this passage, it is declared that the Earth is God's, and everything in it his. The Whole of creation is thus God's, so a logical inference to this passage is the idea that destroying the world through climate change is not what God would want.
Ecotheology is arguably useful because of the way it inspires religious people as well as the wider community. through its placing of ecology into a biblical sphere, it instils within religious people, who still make up a majority of the world's population, a need to protect animals, nature and ourselves. For example, Returning to Psalm 24:1, If the world is God's, making a species extinct is surely robbing God of some of his creation and thus something to avoid. This is especially useful in the light of climate change and the need to respond quickly and efficiently to it. Ecotheology may also be important because science and education might not be able to inspire people as much as religion can, because they are too narrow and rational. Some of the most impactful efforts of conservation have come not from the sort of rational self-interest that science supports, but from a deep feeling that "the value of [these resources] is a sacred religious and cultural value'.
When it comes to criticisms of Ecotheology, it is broadly seen as a good thing, because it is something contributing to the fight against climate change. However, similarly to critiques of liberation theology, some might argue that ecotheology represents a distortion of religious ideas and texts. The texts and ideas, along this line of argument, are being bent to serve the purposes of politicians and political ideas. Religions, as opposed to being unchanging, eternal set of ideas are being made to fit modern trends and the core messages of certain texts radically changed. For many, however, Ecotheology does not represent a distortion of religion, but a natural progression of it as it responds to real world concerns. What is the point in sticking obstinately to the notion that the earth is ours to plunder, if it means we will soon have no earth for ourselves? How will we be able to worship when there is no earth to worship on?
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYEhroa19A_nOzpITRySJA2Ua9hoBQxzh7rUs1XeGrtyRMY2jsR0J1-zs5dW2UqilK0QcmL-lfKFUB/pub
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  • @FarberBob678
    @FarberBob678 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    No

  • @Leonard-td5rn
    @Leonard-td5rn 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Communists oppose nationalism unless it serves their ends

  • @mysterfan7649
    @mysterfan7649 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There should be a fair comprise for homework. This for the benefits and disadvantages are covered. The homework should be for elementary students a 4 page packet system ( one for Language Arts , Mathematics , Science , Social studies and a creative activity for bonus credit ). The secondary students each class are only allowed to give one page assignment with a bit more harder question and still have one creative activity. The homework will be given by packet and by the student advisor or counselor to give the and the students are required to turn it on Friday which is reasonable time and make testing on that day instead of earlier date. Banned homework on weekend. For elementary students questions must only be max of 10 questions , 15 for middle school ( 6th to 8th) , and 20 for high school students ( 9 to 12th grade) . This idea will still help promote reinforcement of classroom learning , dealt with time management, independent learning and it still can enforce an fostering of communication with parents by this method. It will alleviate stress by having a limit of 3 or 7 pages of work for a five days week is reasonable amount especially due on it and most of these should only take an up to hour to finished the assignment and has to be signed by the parents. Most kids cause of anxiety and stress is due to teachers have inconsistent dates and amount of assignments which leads to overload of assignments. This can also help with the those with exacerbate inequalities by having the offer of free tutors at school by the teachers doing the material which can help the work and get the child ready for the test may in a chance improve the test scores and quality of the child learning. It limits less of the free time and the bonus activity is also student choice and it is also where a survey about more improvement on how homework should be handle. This method will leads to less memorization and can encourages into father into critical thinking skills and creative learning ideas. It is win-win for most people. The teachers are required to grades students work and turn it in on the third week or earlier is fun. Students, Parents ,and Teachers should always communicate. This is a effective solution without banning homework. It is also not a waste of costs and may even say it might be a cheaper alternative .

  • @SnowHunter869
    @SnowHunter869 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    fuck no

  • @kaipenyap7376
    @kaipenyap7376 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    postmodern to nowhere

  • @HotWheelz4U
    @HotWheelz4U 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No.

  • @Cirnenric
    @Cirnenric 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Post-modernism is a disintegrative ideology.

  • @hussienmohammed2914
    @hussienmohammed2914 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Have you even read 'The Republic'?? What a nonsense are trolling!!

  • @neilfranklin5036
    @neilfranklin5036 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You will never get full employment because a lot of the businesses don't invest in people they are just interested in how much profits they get

  • @ivyqi7409
    @ivyqi7409 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you, this helped with my debate homework!

  • @user-wn1xi1vf5f
    @user-wn1xi1vf5f 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What a pile of dog shit! except of course the obvious truth that Norvey is a Monarchy, everything else is a lie

  • @df45e
    @df45e 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    English homework heree

  • @Iranianpa
    @Iranianpa 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Trump is a patriotic person,on the other hand, biden and Democrats are against American culture and dream

  • @MegaSolidninja
    @MegaSolidninja 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interesting you put the man fighting tyranny as a thumbnail.

  • @bigred1071
    @bigred1071 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can only speak for myself, but being somebody with learning disabilities, I would have to stay up until 10, sometimes even midnight and often times wake up early just to get the assignments done. I wasn’t allowed to have a life until the weekends. Basically all homework did was make me hate school even more.

  • @user-ne1wz2qx5x
    @user-ne1wz2qx5x 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Annnnnd, you're not very smart, are you?

  • @JesseParker-nf8eb
    @JesseParker-nf8eb 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don’t think Trump is a fascist. After he serves his second term we will probably have new people up for election. Will there be a third Trump term? Maybe. Fourth or fifth ? Highly unlikely

  • @user-bi6li8kv5l
    @user-bi6li8kv5l 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm british. You're deluded.

  • @user-bi6li8kv5l
    @user-bi6li8kv5l 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you're so sure of democracy, then why implement arguments for it's existence?

  • @jakejacob5498
    @jakejacob5498 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    First

  • @user-mn1zu5tl5i
    @user-mn1zu5tl5i 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The electoral college needs to be revised: Cities with populations larger than the population of the state it’s in should get separate electoral votes from the rest of the state.

  • @nichmon3221
    @nichmon3221 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm so glad to live in a republic, although the elite are TRYING to take over, by brainwashing everyone.

  • @dalelerette206
    @dalelerette206 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There are Elites in place that only care about you insofar as you keep them going. G.K. Chesterton told us he suspected we were locked in a beaurocracic plutocracy. But George Carlin told us this too overtly. Ralph Nader didn't even mince words. Has anyone read Eugene Webber from Harward?

  • @20th_century_Ghost
    @20th_century_Ghost 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Any system that distorts forms by ornamenting subjectivity while discarding nature's functions of objectivity is fallacious and should be treated as such.

  • @grantbartley483
    @grantbartley483 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The sky is intersubjectively, not objectively, blue. Objective truths are what remain true when you take subjects away, or consider subjective states from a non-subjective standpoint. But take the subjects away, and the sky doesn't look like anything, because there's no one for it to look like anything to.

  • @user-fw2dd2cy3c
    @user-fw2dd2cy3c 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    First, objectivity is primarily a matter of degree. Such arguments tend to invalidly reason from the alleged impossibility of perfect objectivity to the impossibility of any degree of objectivity. Second, re: the point made toward the end of the video, that the pomos have only negative arguments and nothing positive to offer. Worse, they tend to be wedded to radical leftist politics, and to deploy generic skeptical arguments, and to argue, roughly: nothing is true or good...so we ought to be leftists. But, of course, if they're right (?) we shouldn't be anything...

  • @meirsuissa9931
    @meirsuissa9931 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In other words ..post modernists are eloquent and articulate imbeciles...,

  • @felixrossdorf4886
    @felixrossdorf4886 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Far to simplistic

  • @photondance
    @photondance 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you live in California, or Kansas, you might as well stay home on Election Day. If you don’t live in a swing state, your vote does not matter.

  • @PierreLucSex
    @PierreLucSex 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Poor poor people learning those authors by con artists like Peterson 😂

  • @benjaminstoute
    @benjaminstoute หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is it crony capitalism, like the bank bailouts of 08, the exact opposite of neoliberalism? 🤔

  • @northwestpsychfest7329
    @northwestpsychfest7329 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Modernism was an expression of the Enlightenment however not all modernists were optimistic about the future let alone the present... Was Kafka an optimist?

  • @doliver5447
    @doliver5447 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hmm. The scientific method has given us the automobile, the telephone and medical science. All I’ve seen post modernism create is regression and divisive ideologies.

  • @gabrielbravo2212
    @gabrielbravo2212 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascism were a group of people control everything, like how the Democrats actually control all the news outlets MSNBC the view CNN , how they try to throw their political opponents in jail Hitler did that . Democrats are you doing the same thing, Plus Joe Biden was friends with Albert Burt Ku Klux Klan member Joe Biden even went to his funeral what’s crazy is August documents pictures videos if you really hard. For some reason when you talk about Democrats TH-cam could silence you. You have to watch out what you say or else you can’t post. But I bet if I start talking bad about Trump I could do that all day. The real question is are the Democrat fascist

  • @Itaysha1
    @Itaysha1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you !!💖

  • @ak74auto
    @ak74auto หลายเดือนก่อน

    If objectivity and truth is unattainable, then morals including the concept of universal morality is subjective. This idea in turn seems to open the door to a lot of behaviors being acceptable including misogyny, homophobia and racism.

  • @SharkMinnow
    @SharkMinnow หลายเดือนก่อน

    China's government is better than the US any day.

  • @jamesbevan9989
    @jamesbevan9989 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So wrong

  • @russellsmith4887
    @russellsmith4887 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.” George Orwell We have to all at the same time inhabit an overarching truth or framework that we can all agree on or we can’t exist peacefully. Reverting to each person’s own personal truths leads to chaos. - Jordan Peterson

  • @harryjackson4759
    @harryjackson4759 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I lived in a complex whare the owner screen tenets .but city said he could not. So he let a t family in . For some strange reason the they experienced a lot of theft .including guns . And parts from A cop car .bragging about cop car

  • @OldNorth152
    @OldNorth152 หลายเดือนก่อน

    End western alienation

  • @conscientiousdefector
    @conscientiousdefector หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was considered digging deep?

  • @Wildwiki6798
    @Wildwiki6798 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It depends on the zoo if the animals are very healthy and happy then it’s a good zoo if the zoo is barrier and has an8maks tortured and stuck in cages it’s a bad zoo. For people that think zoos are bad jus5 to say not all zoos are terrible not all zoos are torturing an8maks and stuck 8n tiny cages and capturing them. But there are still bad zoos out there

  • @UwgAllDay
    @UwgAllDay หลายเดือนก่อน

    the rhumbnail is incredibly problematic and i like it very much. Jesus help me haha

  • @user-sm4sf4ff2i
    @user-sm4sf4ff2i หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheer~~~sternness or severity of manner or attitude.😊

  • @ooo-vc4xl
    @ooo-vc4xl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neliberalism = Boeing

  • @user-yy7oi3eh8c
    @user-yy7oi3eh8c หลายเดือนก่อน

    Q1 (January, February, March) Q2 (April, May, June) Q3 (July, August, September) Q4 (October, November, December) Estimated income: $500,000,000 Actual income: $950,000,000,000,000

  • @markvoelker6620
    @markvoelker6620 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Postmodernism is the human malware virus that is destroying civilization.