“Shit Theology”
It’s dry again here in the SouthEast. I hesitate to speak the “D” word, but the truth is, like many parts of the world, we’re getting drier more frequently. I’d like to say that as a community and as a culture, we’re learning more sane ways to use, reuse and conserve our drinking water supplies, but it’s obvious that we’re mostly still stuck in the illusion of endless, luxurious supplies. The account below shows just how much -
from Lib Hutchby, Cary, NC, Sludge
If I could find the man who told me the story, I’d be able to give his name
and you could contact him, but until such time, here’s the story of how one
missionaary kid’s experience changed his life:
Once there was a Christian missionary family who lived in Kenya. The son
grew up to be called an Educational Director in a local Baptist Church in
North Carolina. As an adult, the son spoke freely of his “shit theology.”
I dare to tell Dan’s story:
“One day the chief of the village came to our house for a meeting. While
there, he asked to use the bathroom. The chief came back to the meeting,
very agitated, confused, and disturbed. That’s when he looked squarely at
my father and asked him about his toilet. The chief told my father that if
that is how Christians treat God’s sacred water, he wanted no part of his
religion. The chief walked away.”
Kenya was in a drought. Famine was experienced in Ethiopia and people were
dying of thirst. Water, life’s soulforce, wasn’t something into which the
chief was willing to place waste.
The last I heard from Dan, he was living in Texas and working on natural
sewage treatment systems.
In the meantime, drought or not, I’m still baffled by our antiquated sewage system, am “Peeing on the Earth”, taking navy showers, washing my dishes camping style, driving a dirty car, and not buying bottled water, and saving water simply in about 96 other ways So many of our environmental issues are in the critical stages, but when the clean water supplies dries up, it’s over. Let’s get perspective. Start at home. Then start talking. Tao
September 8th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I read an article in “Mother Earth News.” With the law of Conservation of Matter, that is, no matter, is just changes distribution over the planet. The point of the article was that every human uses water, for drink, bathing, agriculture,manufacturing etc. Still that water is still is still in the water “cycle.”
The issue is over-population. There are approximately 6.7 billion people on the planet. Each of the bodies is essentially made of 75% water, making 6.7 billion “bags of water,” that are retaining water out of the of. If I were to calculate x gallons of water X 6.7 billion bags of water, that would be interesting. There is no more or less water on Earth than there was billions of years ago.
Issues of Global warming don’t effect amount of water, just distribution of water. Draining the Oglalla Aquifer for agriculture doesn’t effect the amount of water, just distribution. Damming the Colorado River doesn’t change the amout of water, just distribution.
The law of Conservation of Matter, and the 1st & 2nd laws of Thermodynamics are LAWS. Think about these in every aspect of your life.
Thanks, Miss Anthropy