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From the Wild Hunt today (http://wildhunt.org/blog/2011/04/update-the-law-of-mother-earth.html):
“Article 3. (Mother Earth) Mother Earth is the living dynamic system comprised of the inter-related, interdependent and complementary indivisible community of all life systems and living beings that share a common destiny. Mother Earth is considered to be sacred, as per the cosmologies of the nations of rural indigenous peoples.”
You know, as much as I like the whole concept of this thing, this is kinda making me uneasy. It is the language of religion enshrined in a national law. That makes me as uncomfortable when it (figuratively, here) benefits me as when it is against me.
“Article 3. (Mother Earth) Mother Earth is the living dynamic system comprised of the inter-related, interdependent and complementary indivisible community of all life systems and living beings that share a common destiny. Mother Earth is considered to be sacred, as per the cosmologies of the nations of rural indigenous peoples.”
You know, as much as I like the whole concept of this thing, this is kinda making me uneasy. It is the language of religion enshrined in a national law. That makes me as uncomfortable when it (figuratively, here) benefits me as when it is against me.
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Date: Apr. 14th, 2011 10:39 pm (UTC)From:Though with the justification for it ("this was our native spirituality and the separation of our spiritual understanding of the earth from day to day living has caused us and the earth a lot of pain"), it seems kind of counterproductive to try to justify it in purely existential terms.