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World population by the billions
 1 billion - 1804
2 billion - 1927
3 billion - 1959
4 billion - 1974
5 billion - 1987
6 billion - 1999*
7 billion - 2011
 *Year when the milestone was observed by
the United Nations.
 Source: United Nations Population Fund
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Food shortage, damage to environment
Access to information technology,
education
Women's rights and gender inequality
Climate change
Aging
Water
Energy
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Alienated from the earth
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Alienated from non-human creation
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Alienated from each other
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Alienated from the Jews
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Alienated from God
Origen
Descartes
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1650
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“This separation of the soul from the body
and from the world is no disease of the
fringe, no aberration, but a fracture that
runs through the mentality of religion like a
geologic fault. And this rift in the mentality
of religion continues to characterize the
modern mind, no matter how secular or
worldly it becomes.”
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America:
Culture and Agriculture (New York: Avon Books,
1979), 108.
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“In the inmost depths of thy soul, thou wouldst
rather there were no world, for where the world is,
there is matter, and where there is matter, there is
weight and resistance, space and time, limitation
and necessity. Nevertheless, there is a world and
there is matter. How dost thou escape from the
dilemma of this contradiction? How dost thou
expel the world from thy consciousness, that it may
not disturb thee in the beatitude of the unlimited
soul? Only by making the world itself a product of
will, by giving it an arbitrary existence, always
hovering between existence and non-existence,
always awaiting its annihilation.”
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), The Essence of Christianity
(New York: Harper & Row, 1957), 110.
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The world’s total meat supply was 71 million
tons in 1961. In 2007, it was estimated to be
284 million tons. Per capita consumption
has more than doubled over that period.
(In the developing world, it rose twice as
fast, doubling in the last 20 years.) World
meat consumption is expected to double
again by 2050, which one expert, Henning
Steinfeld of the United Nations, says is
resulting in a “relentless growth in livestock
production.”
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LUTHER
BLACK DEATH
CRUSADES
CHRYSOSTOM
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“What shall we Christians do with this rejected
and condemned people, the Jews? … I shall
give you my sincere advice: First, to set fire to
their synagogues or schools and to bury and
cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that
no man will ever again see a stone or cinder
of them. This is to be done in honor of our
Lord and of Christendom, so that God might
see that we are Christians, and do not
condone or knowingly tolerate such public
lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son
and of his Christians.” - Martin Luther, “On the
Jews and Their Lies” (1543)
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“The universe was not pregnant with life
nor the biosphere with man. Our
number came up in a Monte Carlo
game. Is it surprising that, like the person
who has just made a million at the
casino, we should feel strange and a
little unreal?” - Jacques Monod, Chance and
Necessity , trans. Austryn Wainhouse (London:
Collins, 1970), 137.
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Alienated from the
earth
Alienated from nonhuman creation
Alienated from each
other
Alienated from the
Jews
Alienated from God
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Does the
Sabbath
have anything
to offer this
world?
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Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all their multitude. And on
the seventh day God finished the work
that he had done, and he rested on the
seventh day from all the work that he
had done. So God blessed the seventh
day and hallowed it, because on it God
rested from all the work that he had
done in creation. (Gen 2:1-3 NRS)