NEW ORDER VOICE
My eschatology has landed on earth; it's not pure heaven anymore. In other words, most Christian words of hope fail to console me. Yet I remain a stalwart follower of Jesus.
I am more convinced by environmentalist Derrick Jensen, who, along with others in his field, says in impolite terms, "We're ruined." We're mowing down forests (our great lungs), over-fishing the seas (vacuuming of the ocean bottom, killing "junk fish" not fit for the market), and doing so with an appalling apathy that allows the system of destruction to increase in momentum.
"Frankly, I don't have much hope," says Jensen in his two-volume Endgame: The Problem of Civilization. "Hope …
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