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A very interesting thread on the forums of the Permaculture Research Institute prompted me to think about profiting off others. Echoing some of the “leaders” in the permaculture movement, most posters saw nothing inherently wrong with profit, as long as it was used for doing good like “ethical investing” and “giving back.” Besides, many of them said, it’s impossible to live without profit. I thought it was curious that people who claimed it’s possible on a societal level to actually live sustainably with nature suddenly became fatalistic and considered other changes too far a stretch of the imagination.
When I think of being “Christian” or the “Church,” pleasant feelings generally do not come to mind. Conjured up are memories of boredom and irrelevancy in the 9 years I attended Catholic school in addition to a few more years of regular church service (before I escaped to “free-thinking secularism”). I had memorized a bunch of prayers and passages from the bible, as well as being able to go through the routines of Catholic Mass in my sleep (stand, sing, sit, repeat 2x, kneel, stand, sing, walk, kneel, stand, sing, the end). But I wasn’t left with much more than that. Sure, I learned that Jesus was a pretty awesome dude, treating everyone really nicely, but he was the Son of God after all.
