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The Destruction of “Dominion”
And the Need for Stewardship.
As a pagan/witch/Wiccan (take your pick and throw your knives at me), I have a huge problem with many things written in the Bible along with the idea that these should be our “laws.”
One area where I have a big issue shows up in Genesis:
Genesis 1:26–28 King James Version (KJV)
26 And God said, Let us (MF: WHO is this ‘us?’)make man in our (MF: ‘our?’) image, after our (MF: Again?)likeness: 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, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth…
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
King James Version (KJV) Public Domain
(Emphasis mine, not God’s)
I think the human species has finally taken this “dominion” thing too far. Antarctica is melting with Spring temps of 65–70 F. Fracking has caused tremors and earthquakes, not to mention destruction of water supplies, the air is getting worse as standards for air quality are erased, plastic is killing life in…
