Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Sat, 24 May 2025 02:27:49 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

<causing extinctions of charismatic megafauna is exclusive to
Americans, or some such dreck>
<this follows a reference to the "subdue the earth" bit as producing
an anti-environmental attitude>

I believe I've heard that Christians believed
for a long time - along with a "young earth"
and creationism - that species extinction
didn't, wouldn't happen.  That whatever God had
crested would continue to exist - unless he
changed his mind about that.  And so species
didn't need to be protected from destructive
exploitation.  God was protecting them.

I recently read a three-volume set of lectures copyright (and so
probably delivered) in 1865 in which the author ended up asserting
that, after the New Jerusalem appears, the people left alive will live
forever and breed copiously, filling the earth forever and ever. He
never explains what happens when everyone is reduced to one square
foot of ground to stand on forever and new people keep arriving.

He also expected that, as one of the glorious group removed in the
Rapture, he would not only rule with a rod of iron over some part of
the Earth in the millenium, but would continue to do so forever and
ever afterwards.

People have believed some /very/ strange things in the past. It should
be no surprise that some believe strange things in the present.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"