[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9425-9426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NATURE'S GOD IS IN ALL OF US

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. The theologian Thomas Barry wrote that the great work 
of our lives is to reconcile with nature, to come to establish a 
communion with every living species on the planet--with all humans, all 
animals and plants, with the land, the air, and the water. As children 
of a common Creator, we are part of every living thing. This requires 
reverence for the natural world.
  When we look at the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we learn how 
far we must journey to reconcile with nature. The false doctrine of 
subduing the natural world puts us in danger of extinction because it 
ultimately attacks the precondition of human existence and because it 
separates us from an understanding of the essential interconnectedness 
of all life.

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  So we're lulled into distancing ourselves from the oil disaster, from 
its effects on the natural world, from its effects on future 
generations. Nature's God is not just up there, but it's in all of us. 
And only when we truly understand the deep significance of the 
Deepwater Horizon disaster will we be prepared to take a new direction 
not only with our energy policies but with our way of life.

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