If Your Homeland Were Invaded

To Believe Christianity Stands In Opposition To Slavery Is At Best To Think Anachronistically And At Worst To Not Understand Christianity.

Premise Eight: The Needs Of The Natural World Are More Important Than The Needs Of The Economic System.

So Many Indigenous People Have Said To Me That The Fundamental Difference Between Western And Indigenous Ways Of Being Is That Even The Most Open-minded Westerners Generally View Listening To The Natural World As A Metaphor, As Opposed To The Way The World Really Is. Trees And Rocks And Rivers Really Do Have Things To Say To Us.

To Pretend That Civilization Can Exist Without Destroying Its Own Landbase And The Landbases And Cultures Of Others Is To Be Entirely Ignorant Of History, Biology, Thermodynamics, Morality, And Self-preservation.

In Order To Maintain Our Way Of Living, We Must Tell Lies To Each Other, And Especially To Ourselves.