Am inspired by this prayer for the Gulf. Here is an excerpt from this litany of “I am’s”: I am a fisherman and I worry about my livelihood. Vast areas of the ocean are closed to fishing, and now oil is creeping into the estuaries and marshlands that serve as fish and shrimp nurseries. Breath [...]
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It’s not the connection I would make, but the analysis of what counts as “religious faith” (i.e., at least organized religion) is not uncommon. Faith is belief without verifiable evidence. This unquestioned adherence to the theory of Global Warming bears all the markings of what traditionally would be recognized as a religion. Complete with sin [...]
[Worshipers at a shrine in Muranga pray facing Mt. Kenya during a ceremony to ask for rain. They also sacrificed a goat. The 17,057-foot mountain has lost 92% of its glacier cover over the last 100 years. Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times] It’s easy to see why religious people would have any number of [...]