to enjoy or to use

Augustine caused global warming.

Everyone wants to blame for the environmental crisis; I think I found our man. Augustine long ago created a theology of enjoyment or utility for things. He came from a Platonic perspective that suggested that the essential stuff in existence are the unseen, spiritual forces, and the material things are jacked up. Augustine baptizes this into the church and spins it in a new light. He suggests the only things which we are suppose to revere, find rest in, meditate on, "enjoy" is the spiritual stuff. And everything else is at best a utility to find the spiritual stuff.

The world is now utility. This means we can do whatever we want with it because its not important. Augustine as one of the most influential figures in Western thought was able to set in motion his ideas that permeate political, economical, religious, and personal ideologies. Nobody was safe from his ideas.

So, next time you get frustrated by the whole in the ozone layer, acid rain, lack of oxygen thing. Just remember its from your good buddy who also decided to create the whole sinful nature thing.

One step to going green. Get rid of Augustine.