Miguel wrote:Miguel wrote:
ive been reflecting a lot lately on religion, and i guess i have mixed feelings. i was born and raised in a catholic family; nothing too extreme, i went through two of the seven sacraments (baptism and confirmation), i didn't really go to mass with my family as much, although my dad used to go a lot when he lost his business (he used to have a small business with two employees, + my mom) and we had to move out of spain because we were about to lose our home and end up homeless, etc. when i was living in my mother's country, peru, i went to three different religious schools. in one of them, when i was like 10, i confessed my "sins", those sins being liking girls, and the Father told me to repent, and sent me to pray.
throughout all my life ive heard wonderful things about what jesus of nazareth said and did, i will confess that, to this day, im still amazed by him as a figure, regardless of whether or not he is the son and the human version of the christian god. i also have seen how cruel his followers are, though. they don't treat others with respect, they don't love others, they judge and almost punish you for not following their rules, they tell you you're sinful for loving or for acting different, etc.
regarding climate change, i can not imagine, having my context in mind and the kind of religious people ive met (and exclusively talking about my religion), someone like that ever caring about the earth we live in, if they can not even bother to care about the living human beings living in it
sorry for the yapping before answering the question, i just needed to paint my context a little bit, but hopefully ive written it good enough for you to understand the connections i tried to make +
ill add that when i was more of a catholic, i didn't really know about climate change but
i did think that the earth was god's biggest gift to us, and that we had to take care of it because of that. i also thought that regarding human and non human animals this !!!! this is the potential of religion im seeing . it doesnt need to be christianity or any existing religion that fixes climate change but i feel like religion as a concept has the general characteristics that could change the world . as it already has