Quote any out-of-context scrap of your wornout religious fairytale
that can grease your own agenda
Plunder this earth in
the truly wacko belief it was created for your ignorant and selfish
whims alone
Righteously waltz away
from your messes with profit in your pocket and hand on the good book
Rest easy in the
certain knowledge of your divine right to an eternal and shameless
greed
Take dominion over the
beasts and despoil all the places in which they might take their
shelter
Hunt them down, burn
them out, or even, vow to protect those few your children deem
attractive
Treat plants and
animals just the same: For personal & disposable use in any way
you see fit
After all, they lack
the everlasting souls with which your one true god has favored you,
alone
Foul the air with
impunity seeking extractive revenue or gas-powered wreckreation
Cut and burn the
forests for corporate gain under his command to go forth and multiply
Concoct and release
any manner of poisonous chemicals - if you think you can make a quick
profit
Empty even the vast
seas of all their life to satisfy the insatiable demands of the
blessed free market
Sanctimoniously treat
your brown-eyed cattle as mere non-living, statistical units of
production
Modify their genetics
at your whim, deny them the calming shelter of their herds,
Raise them in crowded
filth, kill them without any dignity and just as cheaply as is
possible
Rend and cleanly
package them in bloody factories and then bulk ship them as consumer
goods
Remain smug in the
knowledge that you alone are cast in your one god’s image
Channel the rivers,
strip their banks bare and introduce all manner of your toxic runoffs
Casually block out the
divine skies with your smoke and His stars with your paranoid
nightlights
Consume non-renewable
resources at unsustainable rates behind casual, knowing smirks
Take accidental
dominion over the atmosphere, obliviously unbalancing its exquisite
constituents
Unconsciously but
innocently infect and pock the earth that He bequeathed only to you
Derive moral authority
from scripture and trust the outcome to the blind hand of free
enterprise
Try vainly to place
yourselves divinely outside of the earth’s cycles and its cosmic
web of life
Put people and jobs
above the natural world and its cycles without which they cannot even
exist
Righteously commend
the territories of the heathen enemy and his false god to ashes and
to ruin
Matter-of-factly
demand adequate income from any lands socialistically held in the
national trust
Praise those who gash
and extract for us and allow them to move on without healing the land
Swarm into any
marginal habitat you stumble on and guiltlessly tip its balance
towards entropy
Measure the health of
your society simply by its consumer spending and unemployment rate
Always make sure to
put people first in a ceaseless, artificial struggle to overcome
nature
Be sure and erect
sturdy fences to cut off access beyond your leveraged holdings
Blindly trust to the
wisdom of billions of isolated, greedy decisions to result in a
sustainable future
Blithely waste and
pollute irreplaceable clean water on a daily basis without the
slightest regret
Pray for relief from
the drought and heat while steadfastly denying that our efforts
produced them
Take it on faith that
air, water and an equable climate are inexhaustible free goods,
provided by god
Let the animals and the habitat which supports them and us all exist
simply at your pleasure
Ignore the finite
nature of all the resources squandered in raising your precious
children
Permanently alter
ancient rain forests with a single-minded focus on the profit for
this fiscal period
Rest secure in the
perfection of heaven, independent of any god-willed mess on this
earth
Take dominion over the
forests and plant millions of cloned trees, equally spaced and
fenced-in
Artificially color the
modified fish that you unsustainably farm while poisoning the ocean
Thank god for his
blessings then stuff down too much and just throw away the rest
Draw freely from
earth’s finite resources provided for you alone in his infinite
wisdom
Trust that he will
look after tomorrow thus allowing you to blindly consume and despoil
today
Sleep well believing
that you follow the only true and righteous path to eternal salvation
Trample the silent
lilies of the field in a smoky and noisy quest for your vital
wreckreational pleasure
Celebrate our
fruitfulness under his edict even as we render our very nest unfit
for life
Take up arms for god
and lay waste to the enemy lands in His name and for His glory
Twist and eviscerate
your god’s teachings such that you evade responsibility for the
earth that nurtures you
Teach that preserving
this lonely planet is criminally negligent in terms of family costs
in jobs and money
Dwell on important
moral concerns like abortion, gay marriage and flag-burning while
ignoring the vast ecological holocaust of our foolish lifestyles
Mindlessly shovel
resources into that blind and gaping maw of global corporatism
Trust that things will
turn out all right according to His mysterious and omniscient plan
Call the heat and
drought and new deserts the unfathomable will of your omnipotent god
Respond grudgingly
with tiny band-aids as entire ecosystems collapse but unquestioningly
increase already unconscionably huge military outlays
Try and save the
species of your choice, if you will, though they have nowhere to live
or anything to eat
Marvel at the wonder
of His creation over the roaring of the bulldozers in the background
Displace the plant and
animal communities with filthy, teeming, unplanned slums
Rip up fertile
sustaining farmland for shoddy strip malls selling throwaway plastic
schlock
Destroy ecosystem
linchpins but still, find your solace in prayer as the mystery of His
ways unfolds
Twist a fossilized
religion and out-of-context economic theory into a rationalization
for unencumbered, shortsighted & suicidal greed
Give thanks for all of
our blessings and righteously ignore their toxic origins and
externalized costs
View all of his
creations through the unique lens of our own divine entitlement
Take dominion, secure
in the knowledge that His will be done, in the fullness of eternity
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