Green - 11/17/22

    A past class on Christianity introduced the idea of God naming and caring for us, and tasking us with naming and caring for animals. This relationship has always interested me, and it has been a while since the class so I would like to look at it through the lens of Religion and Ecology; comparing it to the food industry.

    In the Christian mythos, one Biblical quote that makes the rounds is that “God knew you in your mother’s womb.”, He cared for and, in a way, named you, just as Adam and Eve were tasked to do for the animals God created. In Genesis this hierarchy is made clear, at the top is God, then man, then animals. Man is specifically said to be greater than animal, in charge of their wellbeing and given permission to eat them.

    I made a post about some Christians seeing the earth as expendable as the rapture will take us from it, therefore they are justified in using it to its fullest extent. This brings me to my argument, that this method of thinking has translated over to how we as a people see our food industry. Instead of eating for the season and providing a portion of what we eat by ourselves, a large part of the population is dependent on pre-packaged everything and their Walmart gods. The idea that we are the rulers of animals and plants for our sustenance seems to have gotten to our heads, while forgetting the part where God asked us to take care of them. 

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