Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Sat, 24 May 2025 14:41:46 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

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 strongly suspect God is pretty pissed about what we did to His
creatures.

Martin Luther apparently believed that God is "pretty pissed" about
pretty much everything anyone does on their own. His actual
description of God's feelings is a /lot/ worse than merely being
"pretty pissed", but that was the rhetorical style back then.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"