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<div>In my comments on March 10 and 11, 2008, on Vision2020, I mentioned that expressing the view that human life is a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Earth" would open a "can of worms," especially considering the "God" dominated majority in the USA. Below I offer some examples of the worms that emerge, from certain individuals offering their supreme wisdom and enlightenment, in response to my post from February 22, 2008 (at the URL below), a post where I made the statement that "We are all a 'wholly owned subsidiary' of the Earth as a living system:" </div>
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<div>The responses:</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/08, Ted Moffett wrote:</span></div>
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<div>"However, in my view, everything occurring on our planet is a wholly owned subsidiary of Earth Biosphere, Inc. I will not elaborate on this concept, knowing full well the incredible can of worms it will open."</div>
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<div>On 3/11/08 Ted Moffett wrote:</div>
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<div>Well, I see that a worm or two managed to squiggle out of the can...</div>
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<div>Thanks for the reference to Gaylord Nelson and the "economy is a subsidiary of the environment" concept. I was writing within the context of the thread "Evangelical Christian Takeover of the Military," so I meant the quote you post as meaning more that religion is a "subsidiary" of the biosphere. I was not focusing on the economic implications of this concept given environmentalism. I did not make my meaning very clear. </div>
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<div>General Boykin's comments about whose God is bigger are ridiculous when looking at all religion as a development of human culture that is itself a subset of the web of life on Earth. </div>
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<div>Such a concept, that religion is a "subsidiary" of the biosphere, is a can of worms, theologically and philosophically, given the difficulties in defending its truth, and politically and even personally speaking, given how expressing such a point of view can make an organization or a person unpopular. </div>
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<div>We live in a culture, to state the obvious, with an overwhelming dominance of a "God" oriented view of the universe, where God sits as creator of the Earth and all humanity, and Nature is more of a stage for the drama than the source of life upon which we are absolutely dependent for our creation (evolution) and continued survival.</div>
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<div>Now is the "can of worms" I was referring to defined a bit better?</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>
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