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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 16. How Do We Discern Stories That Claim ‘Humans Are A Virus’ on the Earth?
Description: “The earth is healing; we are the virus.”[1. Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash.] Not long ago, that slogan itself went viral. Some made fun of it. A few took it seriously.
But under the slogan lies this faint suspicion: maybe humanity is bad somehow. Something is wrong with us. We don’t belong here.
How do Christians engage with this idea in our nonfiction and in fiction?
Three worldviews about the Earth
The Earth belongs to people. Result: exploitative pollution that harms people.
The Earth belongs to itself. Result: anti-human attitudes and po...