dominion theology

Ten Green Commandments

Posted by alittle on November 8, 2005 - 4:30pm.

Conventional wisdom has long held that the religious right is, generally speaking, hostile to environmental regulations. There’s no denying that a strong and influential group of dominion theologists have aggressively lobbied against federal-level protections because they believe that the Bible sanctions humanity's exploitation of natural resources. As a passage in Genesis puts it: “God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”


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