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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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.