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Weird then that theists are typically not the ones concerned with preserving that natural beauty.
For them, god put that oil down there for us to extract and burn. Nature be damned.
Tbh I think this one's on the Bible. It does say that we are the Shepherd of God's creation or something, and I guess a shepherd is technically allowed to exploit the fuck out of their flock ๐คท
that they choose to interpret this as "give a fuck about nothing at all" is one of the biggest problems people have with christians.
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Yeah, but we are looking on as our flock gets slowly but surely smaller and smaller. Our neighbor has warned us for decades about the wolves, but we don't believe him and maybe a little culling is good for the flock in the end.
Well... That one sort of depends more on what variety of spirituality is in play. If you have something very human centric where people are considered the apex of creation or that things were created for people to inherit then people tend to treat natural resources as theirs by divine right.
Critically there ARE theistic systems that veiw things from a decentralized point of view. If humans are just one of many or if the spirits/God's / ghosts of the ancestors etc. are tied to the well being of the land and the whole thing is treated spiritually as shared property or a closed system you see a very different attitude. It's part of why many indigenous peoples tend to foster very symbiotic arrangements with land use. Multi or pantheistic belief systems are more likely to be this way than monotheistic systems and the problem with monotheistic religions is they tend to be very aggressive at taking over the space and support a colonizers mindset of "this is mine because it is otherwise unclaimed or the claim is illegitimate."
Too many times in discussion people conflate Theist to basically just mean Monotheist religions... Which sucks because it kind of feels like it buys into the monotheistic mindset of being the only thing out there worth learning or caring about.
This seems to only happen in mostly two-party political systems.