Paganism and Climate Change are Peas in a Pod

The belief that humans are abusing the limits of nature and causes harm seems to becoming more popular. I'm talking of the belief humans are causing climate change.

The overarching issue of climate change is that nature provides limits and we must fit into those limits. Most religions, especially Christianity, does not teach this. Oh yes, there is something about good stewardship but that is not to override man's superior place in the world of plants and animals.

If a large part of the world's population still seeks something we can call "spirituality", something bigger than themselves, where will it turn? It could well be that that population will turn to what has no doubt been its "go-to spirituality" for most of human history, spirits that live in nature. One version of that is Paganism.

A new narrative might be replacing an old one. The old narrative was, "Leave paganism. Our new religion lets you use up the environment, eat the animals and after you have fed your face all your life you can live on in a joyful heaven. Paganism cannot offer you a deal like that."

The new narrative is, "What Christianity offered people to leave Paganism was a hoax. You cannot endlessly exploit the environment for your own pleasure without suffering consequences. We can see the consequences before our very eyes. And, the thing about never dying has not come with evidence. If we had stuck with Paganism we would be better off today."

There has always been many branches of Paganism. Humans being what they are will expand the branches even more.

There will be one unifying factor, a common distrust of Christianity.

Comments

  1. Ardy BOctober 3, 2019 at 4:55 PM

    Moral hubris provides the justification, science/technology provides the means. All to poop in our own nest. Vain morality and arrogant science have both failed our Mother Earth.

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  2. tsmOctober 7, 2019 at 6:46 PM

    By all means let's bring back paganism. How about human sacrifice? Gladiator shows? Infanticide? Sparta? Ba'al worship? I could go on but I think that any rational person will quickly get the point. Of course, the pagans have contributed a great deal in fields such as philosophy, mathematics, engineering and the like. And we have a lot to learn from them. But to make statements like "we would be better off today if we had stuck with paganism" is, well, just about as stupid as it gets.















    eugenics/infanticide?

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