The attitude toward the life-supporting earth comes from the "Old Testament", which is not Christian.
The resultant contempt for life has made catastrophic changes. For one small example see Weston A. Price "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"

William


29/03/01 15:53:22 PM, Ken Stuart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:32:20 -0800, Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>Christianity is what has led us up this garden path to where we are now, that
>>>is totally disconnected from nature.
>>>
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>>Actually, wouldn't it be ALL the agriculturally based religions??
>
>When someone says "Christianity" is this sort of context, they almost always
>mean "My Parents". :-) :-)
>
>In the context of the events generally referred to in this discussion group,
>"Christianity" started about 5 minutes ago - only a blink of an eye in
>comparison to the amount of time that agriculture has been going on, which in
>itself is only a very small part of the amount of time that humanity has been in
>existence.   Which is one of the central points of the Paleo Diet concept.
>
>So, in our Paleo context, "Christianity" has not possibly been around long
>enough to do much of anything....
>
>
>--
>Cheers,
>
>Ken
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