reverend_billy

I love the community stations. In New York its Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and the wonderful oddball poignant great brave stuff you see there on channel 56 - I sincerely think its the best TV - I like it when it's like the camera dropped down into a party and there's a touch of what-the-hell? I am a lot less interested in commercial stuff, with the 15 minutes of commercials every hour. Then again - hey - I don't have a television. -- Rev

Great sermon, Reverend

Rev offers today's reading: from "The Creation" by E. O. Wilson
By Billy Talen


"The modern technoscientific revolution, including especially the great leap of computer-based information technology, has betrayed Nature, by fostering the belief that the cocoons of urban and suburban material life are sufficient for human fulfillment. That is an especially serious mistake. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artifactual contrivance of any existing culture. The spiritual roots of homo sapiens extend deep into the natural world...

Rev interjects: ....and skipping ahead a half page... this is in the chapter called "Ascending to Nature" and oh can I preach this? It needs a cooing choir behind it, or you could Youtube a good sermon with this language - with the church stranded in some grand wilderness, with robes and hiking boots. Amen?

"Granted, many people seem content to live entirely within the synthetic ecosystems. But so are domestic animals content, even in the grotesquely abnormal habitats in which we rear them. This in my mind is a perversion. It is not the nature of human beings to be cattle in glorified feedlots. Every person deserves the option to travel easily in and out of the complex and primal world that gave us birth. We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging position is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. Only in what remains of Eden, teeming with life forms independent of us, is it possible to experience the kind of wonder that shaped the human psyche at its birth.

Rev remarks: ...from the beginning our Stop Shopping Church we've had two big beliefs. One: Let's not consent to be consumers, because then we're idiots and Two: Consumers are killing the earth.

Amen! Sometimes it's hard to connect the two ideas, one is so personal and the other is so universal, so Reverend Wilson thank you.

amen!

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