LIVING IN THE CLEFT

We are caught between a rock and a hard place.

 On the one hand we have neo-Marxist hippies claiming that the Western world (some merely hate everybody) is the culture that is destroying ‘mother earth; Gaia’.

Of course this flies in the face of all the facts which indicate that it is the less developed and the socialist regimes that are the most destructive, but hey, as Alinsky would say: let’s not let something as distasteful as actual facts get in the way of a powerful propaganda tool…besides we all know that such statistics out of the mouths of those in the pay of big oil (i.e.anyone who disagrees with the Green worldview) are all twisted and distorted. Most of them are probably heteronormative, old white males anyway and everyone knows that they are just not worth listening to.

On the other hand we do have a bunch of narcissistic Gordon Gekko doppelganger’s rampaging through nature and raping it for what they can get, stopping only when forced to do so.

Unfortunately each uses the other to justify their extreme positions.

I believe in Stewardship and Colson has nailed it in this excerpt:

“We need to debunk the idea that man is invading the pristine beauty and wilderness – that man is the problem, destroying the beauty of the earth. I like the way the Acton institute puts it: Man is not despoiling the environment he is cultivating it. He is improving it and replacing it with a different kind of beauty-a beauty that is productive, which takes care of human needs. This is the real meaning of ‘take dominion’ in Genesis 11. “

This world; according to the Christian worldview, has been cursed alongside man and the observable facts bear this out.

When you leave your garden to the elements and take no care with it what is the result? Beautiful roses springing carelessly forth out of the earth?

No!

We see endless weeds, thistles and thorns springing up to destroy what we have so carefully planted. Gardens like relationships need tender loving care to flourish. The only things that emerge from neglect are chaos and strife.

That is everybody’s lived experience and concurs nicely with the scriptural explanations.

True Truth is that set of facts which mirrors what actually exists, not with what one wants or imagines to exist….that is called an ideology.