It seems as though in our present day world there are two
main groups of people: those who want to unite together and build each other up
or those who would rather put themselves, individual or group selves alike,
above other people in order to situate status and possibly even torment others
for not achieving their level. I think success in either type of the definition
through unity or individualistic success no mater the cost is mirrored in Berry’s
conclusion where he argues we should all come together in understanding that religion
and nature have always been complementary. Whether its groups like the Sierra Club
or The Mountaineers and even the YMCA, we should all come together for the
greater purpose of preserving the environment and understand the spirituality
and sacred spaces that they create and invite people into experiencing.
This togetherness
is something that America was built on but has extorted. We were formed to be a
unit together that was for the common good and opposed to ‘the other’. This aversion
to diversity in a lot of ways has formed America into the self-fulfillment,
even selfish and individualistic society that we know today, but can’t we just
get back to being an integrated unit working together to make the world a
better place? Our work to preserve the environment and its sacredness is not just
the duty of people involved in clubs or organizations to beautify the earth,
but a duty of all human persons as inhabitants of the earth. The carelessness
of humans to preserve the very space we live in that we call sacred shows what we
hold holy. Do we value human persons and the environment as well as the inherent
dignity of each and human persons as unrepeatable beings wherein the
environment can foster places of sacred space, spirituality and transformation,
or do we simply see humans as the end all be all and the demise of the
environment as an irrelevant element to success and an obvious and unavoidable
step of the instant gratification culture we live in in order to accrue success?
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