Status Updates From Subversive Christianity: Im...

For human beings to exist in creation and to be busy with creational tasks--that is, to work--is good. It is a blessing, not a curse, not a necessary evil, not a subjugation of slavery to the gods, whether that be to Marduk or technical power or economic growth.

This text [Genesis 1:26-28] says that it is not the elite, the rich and powerful in Babylon, those who hold the keys to sacred knowledge, those who wield political power, who are the image of God. Rather, ordinary human beings, men and women in partnership, image God in the creation

This myth of progress is engraved in our high-school textbooks, proclaimed in corporate advertising, phallically erected in our downtown bank and corporations towers, propagated in our universities, assumed by our political poets, and portrayed in our situational comedies, dramas and news broadcasts on the popular media.

[The myth of progress] proclaims that progress is inevitable, if we only allow human reason freely and scientifically to investigate our world so that we can acquire the technological power to control that world in order to realize the ultimate human good, that is, an abundance of consumer goods and the leisure time in which to consume them.