'The Vatican gave Pantheism further prominence in a Papal encyclical of 2009 and a New Year's Day statement on January 1, 2010, which criticized Pantheism for denying the superiority of humans over nature and "seeing the source of man's salvation in nature".'
Humans thinking they are superior to nature is what is causing not only our destruction, but quite possibly the destruction of all the life on this planet. How holy is that?
Spend time in the city (...and I mean a real concrete jungle, parks don't count ;) or hours inside on the computer, and then just go out into nature. Woods, gorge, river, wherever. See how you feel. And then try to tell me that anything BUT nature could be our salvation. Just be out there quiet, and listen. And then try to tell me that nature is not God, trying to talk with you. Realize the apple you ate today is now a part of you, and the water you drank from the river now runs as your blood. See that you ARE one with nature, and that you ARE one with God.
Humans thinking they are superior to nature is what is causing not only our destruction, but quite possibly the destruction of all the life on this planet. How holy is that?
Spend time in the city (...and I mean a real concrete jungle, parks don't count ;) or hours inside on the computer, and then just go out into nature. Woods, gorge, river, wherever. See how you feel. And then try to tell me that anything BUT nature could be our salvation. Just be out there quiet, and listen. And then try to tell me that nature is not God, trying to talk with you. Realize the apple you ate today is now a part of you, and the water you drank from the river now runs as your blood. See that you ARE one with nature, and that you ARE one with God.
'John Chapter 10, verses 30-36 (KJV)
10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Say ye of him, whom the Creator hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am of the nature of God?
10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Say ye of him, whom the Creator hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am of the nature of God?
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