And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:26

When I was sixteen, my father gave me dominion over the family car. I'm pretty sure that he did not intend for me to wreck it and kill everyone inside.

One of the scariest things about Christianity is the belief that we are in charge of the planet, and that it was created entirely for our personal benefit.

It leads not only to the belief that we can treat it as cesspit; but that if we break it, there's Somebody Out There who can fix it. Or perhaps that it is Divinely capable of magical regeneration. Or maybe He'll just take us to His castle in the sky so it won't matter any more.

I pray to The God Who May Be In Heaven that He will see fit to teach more of his followers the difference between "stewards" and "despoilers."

Soon.

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