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Here’s the thing.

The sacred text attributed to Jeremiah was, to the best of scholars’ knowledge, written to the Israelites to try to get them to take their responsibility as stewards of the Earth and their social responsibility to each other seriously.

Otherwise, the author is saying, God is going to mash them down like soft clay and start again. This doesn’t require Jesus coming in the clouds. It doesn’t require thunderbolts, or four horsemen, or rivers of blood.

It just requires our continuing negligence.

How often do we today hear that if we don’t take environmental degradation and climate change seriously that the world is likely to change beyond recognition? Most of us will perish in that scenario. Some of us will survive. And those who do will be forced to start over.

Sound familiar?

Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it. Jeremiah 18:6-8

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