>>1672145I am a Catholic and I have to disagree. The church's influence on Europe has always gone hand-in-hand with industrializing, taming nature, placing Man at the top of a hierarchy. Read more about the early years and the friction between pagans and early Christians. The Orthobro talking about the Dominion of Man was right.
It's certainly possible to reconcile Catholicism with a harmonious approach to nature, but it is not a prevailing theme, and other religions do it with less mental gymnastics. I wish the Church would put more emphasis on conservation, as in addition to being generally important I think it would be a good cause to win over more young people. Nobody in my generation cares about religion but they do feel lost and disgusted with modernity, and that can be channeled into something better.
