"God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.""
Author: Genesis 1 Verses #: 26
Other translations suggest that the word dominion means to "rule over". The christian nation that we live in has taken this "dominionism" very seriously. How wonderful it would be if this ancient and ignorant male writer would have said to "understand" and live in peace and respect with ecosystems. We pollute our rivers with toxic chemicals. We destroy streams by extracting natural gas. We overfish and destroy life in the oceans. We treat livestock with the most cruelty imaginable before we kill them violently. The "dominion" of mankind is going to destroy the planet. Our refusal to control population growth rates with edicts from the pope will lead to a planet of 9 billion in the next 30 to 50 years that the planet cannot sustain. Unless we raise up a generation of biologists, ecologists and environmentalists who have to power to dictate sane public policy life on our little planet is doomed. We will kill each other fighting over which imaginary deity is the most real and most worthy of absolute loyalty. The panda's have quit reproducing long ago. Do they know something we don't know?
