Christians Have a Duty to Rebuke Factory Farming
On Creation care, the American Church, and the cognitive dissonance of Christians who justify eating meat
French philosopher Simone Weil once remarked that it is not how a person speaks about God — rather, it is “how they speak about the things of the world” — that shows whether their soul has “passed through the fire of the love of God.”
Two thousand years prior, Jesus speaks to a gathering crowd:
“I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning!”
Speaking of fire, it is October 2019 as I write this — the hottest October in recorded history across the world. An ongoing trend over the last few years is that every month is (or is uncomfortably close to) the hottest respective month in recorded history across the world when it eventually rolls around. This is a global issue of which the causes are as vast, complicated, and systemic as the eventual catastrophic results will be. In the United States, two particular culprits of this unprecedented rate of warming are the combined forces of CO², which accounts for 82 percent of all greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, and the cumulative release of methane from a population of 1.5 billion cows, which…
