[Mixing church beliefs with an insane policy ] Abbott explained some of his philosophies of the environment. Man and the environment are meant for each other. The last thing we do – the last thing we should want – if we want to genuinely improve our environment is to want to ban men and women from enjoying it, is to ban men and women from making the most of it and that’s what you do. You intelligently make the most of the good things that God has given us. There are no prizes for guessing the intellectual origin of this sentiment, the Book of Genesis, which famously tells us all to “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”. For a deeply Catholic man such as Tony Abbott, such ideas must seem almost self-evident.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:58:16 +0000