First, the NONSENSE.....
"Over half a century ago, the medieval historian Lynn White detonated an environmentalist critique of Judeo-Christian religion that still resonates today.
In "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis," White argued that by casting mankind in the image of God and putting nature under human control, the Bible enabled Christianity to become "the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen."
Rabbinic Judaism itself provides a breathtaking version of Judeo-Christian anthropocentrism. Addressing the biblical account of Noah's flood, Tractate Sanhedrin (108a) of the Babylonian Talmud asks, "If man sinned, in what way did the animal kingdom sin that it, too, warranted destruction?"
Thetroubling answer comes by way of a parable attributed to the second-century rabbi Joshua ben Korḥa, about a man who makes a wedding canopy for his son.
Before the wedding takes place, the son dies. The man then proceeds to dismantle the canopy saying, "Now that my son has died, why do I need a wedding canopy?"
"So too, the Holy One, Blessed be He, said: Did I create domesticated animals and non-domesticated animals for any reason other than for man? Now that man sins and is sentenced to destruction, why do I need domesticated animals and non-domesticated animals?"
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein:
"In our pride we foolishly imagine that there is no kinship between us and the rest of the animal world, how much less with plants and minerals...The Torah inculcates in us a sense of our modesty and lowliness, so that we should be ever cognizant that we are of the same stuff as the ass and the mule, the cabbage and the pomegranate, and even the...stone."
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RESPONSE to this NONSENSE.....this NONSESNE of Debasing Humans...
You are NOT a mineral, animal, stone or plant...
1) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
2) and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,... Genesis 1:26
3) Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12:6,7
"Over half a century ago, the medieval historian Lynn White detonated an environmentalist critique of Judeo-Christian religion that still resonates today.
In "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis," White argued that by casting mankind in the image of God and putting nature under human control, the Bible enabled Christianity to become "the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen."
Rabbinic Judaism itself provides a breathtaking version of Judeo-Christian anthropocentrism. Addressing the biblical account of Noah's flood, Tractate Sanhedrin (108a) of the Babylonian Talmud asks, "If man sinned, in what way did the animal kingdom sin that it, too, warranted destruction?"
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Before the wedding takes place, the son dies. The man then proceeds to dismantle the canopy saying, "Now that my son has died, why do I need a wedding canopy?"
"So too, the Holy One, Blessed be He, said: Did I create domesticated animals and non-domesticated animals for any reason other than for man? Now that man sins and is sentenced to destruction, why do I need domesticated animals and non-domesticated animals?"
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein:
"In our pride we foolishly imagine that there is no kinship between us and the rest of the animal world, how much less with plants and minerals...The Torah inculcates in us a sense of our modesty and lowliness, so that we should be ever cognizant that we are of the same stuff as the ass and the mule, the cabbage and the pomegranate, and even the...stone."
RNS
RESPONSE to this NONSENSE.....this NONSESNE of Debasing Humans...
You are NOT a mineral, animal, stone or plant...
1) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
2) and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,... Genesis 1:26
3) Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12:6,7