Christophe wrote:Oops you talked about religion ...
Fatal error!
Ahmed wrote:Mainly in the OT it is clearly specified that God made man in his image and that, roughly, he put the rest of the creation at his disposal: it is even an interesting offer and that is cut on measured!
Genesis 1: 28:
God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subjugate it; and dominate over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every animal that moves on the earth.
To avoid any error of interpretation it is necessary to translate this sentence from the point of view of memetics:
God is an anthropomorphic concept that symbolizes uniqueness within a cultural field,it's a
master meme.
In other words, a guiding thought which structures groups of human beings so that they accomplish their missions: dissipating energy by forming increasingly large groups.
This concept obviously obeys the principles of thermodynamics, it is for this reason that there is question of fertility and multiplication (principle of saturation).
This should not be seen as an ideology of brutality towards nature as is often repeated in certain circles (such as
animal rights eg).
It is in fact a strategy allowing the proliferation of
Memes: the more populations multiply and the more there is a large number of brains to "colonize," this therefore requires an invasion of the territories which must not be stopped by any empathy towards other hosts (animals) not conducive to dissipation .
We thus find in many religions teachings promoting memetic dissipation as well as others serving as firewalls
* to competing ideas.
In the NT, Jesus does not make much of animals and the only major Christian figure to be concerned about it is St Francis of Assizes ...
Jesus Christ appears during a period of trouble, a period which was not specifically conducive to animal protection, moreover the world population was probably not to exceed 300 million inhabitants, the damage to the environment was compared to the current "anecdotal" situation.
* Like teaching that the faithful who would turn away from the teachings would be tormenting for eternity or that the people coming to question the teachings would be envoys of the devil ...
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.