The Original Ecology
How the World's Oldest Religion Built Environmental Protection Into the Structure of God eFireTemple.com The Oldest Green Theology on Earth Long before the word "ecology" existed — long before the first climate summit, the first environmental movement, the first Earth Day — a prophet in Central Asia built environmental protection into the architecture of God. Zarathustra did not write an environmental manifesto. He did something more radical.
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How the World's Oldest Religion Built Environmental Protection Into the Structure of God eFireTemple.com The Oldest Green Theology on Earth Long before the word "ecology" existed — long before the first climate summit, the first environmental movement, the first Earth Day — a prophet in Central Asia built environmental protection into the architecture of God. Zarathustra did not write an environmental manifesto. He did something more radical. He declared that every element of the natural world is guarded by a divine being — an emanation of God's own nature — and that to harm any element of creation is to harm God Himself. This is not a metaphor. It is the structural theology of Zoroastrianism. And it is the oldest systematic environmental ethic in the history of religion.
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