When the last flame will be extinguished,
the last river poisoned,
the last fish caught,
only then realize that you can not eat money.
Prayer of the Navajo tribe
"God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the Earth. Be the fear and terror of all animals of the earth and every bird of the sky, as with everything in the Earth and all the teeming fish of the sea: they are delivered into your hands [...] Be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and have dominion "
(Jan. 9, 1-7).
As everyone knows, most of the traditional religions are of a "cosmic" the universe is understood by them as a great living whole to which man is bound by the mere fact of its existence. In reIigioni East such as Buddhism, Hinduism or Shintoism, this bond is usually stated with force. The same happens in the European oldest religions, which recognize the animated character nature believe that there are "holy places" , referring to a cyclical conception time and ask the man to get in harmony with the world by taking conforming to the rites and sacrifices. In this perspective, the Earth is not just a dwelling place for humans, it is also the companion, and therefore can not be used as a tool to serve its purpose. "In all religions have a cosmic," writes Mircea Eliade, "the religious life consists precisely in the solidarity of man with life and nature." [4] Since every cosmogony is also a ontofania, a plenary manifestation of being, and while a palingenesis, a perpetual restarting "the world is in such a way that, contemplating the religious man discovers the many ways of the sacred, and therefore Being "[5].
Things are different in biblical monotheism. The concept of nature as such does not exist in the Bible, removed from that of creation. In Christian theology, the world is not the case for adoption, division or subsidiary of a common substance, but as something radically new, free product voIere of a God whose perfection it can not add anything. God is present everywhere, but certainly do not represent the invisible dimension, he is not immanent: it is a distinct being, who created the entire universe with a gratuitous act. As a created being, the world can not therefore be in itself carry any sacredness. The ancient perspective "cosmic" therefore, is abolished. The existence of humanity lies not in the more eternal rhythm of the cycles and seasons, but you sort first by a linear conception of time. [...]
same time, the man is allocated a special place within creation. He is not only a specific level of sensible reality; is its center, the sovereign lord. having been created "image" of God is ontologically different from all other living beings who, like him, have the power to procreate and reproduce but were created leminâh, that is, "according to their kinds." His soul, the most essential part of his being, should not the rest nothing to nature. This means that between the world and he is a radical difference [7]. "Crown of Creation" of the plot's central feature original man transcends nature and has rights over it, just as God transcends the human being and has rights over him. The world, in short, was created only for man, so he has a right to subdue him.
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