Who Said That?

“Politically, humanity cannot afford more than ‘one America’, and the same can be said ecologically of the earth. If the whole world were ‘America’, the whole world would already have been destroyed. If all human beings were to drive as many cars as Germans and Americans, and drive them as much, the atmosphere would already be mortally poisoned. The American millenium can be the downfall of the world. There is awareness of this ambiguity in America, inasmuch as ‘the American nightmare’ (Malcolm X) is following hard on the heels of the American dream, and American messianism is closely pursued by American apocalyptic.”

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  The whole point is to guess!  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 03:23PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is found in Jurgen Moltmann's, The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology (Minneapoolis: Fortress, 1996), 177.

Comments

[pb]

Al "I can have a big carbon footprint but you can't" Gore?

["lee n. field"]

Paul Ehrlich? Barry Commoner? I remember such talk back in the '70s.

In a (broadly) Christian context, Brian McClaren would be my guess.

[Lloyd Cadle]

You beat me to it pb, Al Gore.

[Tad]

Another vote for Brian McLaren...

[Brian Davilla]

Must be Al Gore

[John Yeazel]

I'll guess Robert Redford but I really have no idea.

[Michael]

Algore

[pb]

Actually I was kidding about Gore, would he know terms like messianism and apocalyptic?

[Stan McCullars]

Has to be one of Obama's advisors.

[Marv]

Algor

[matt]

Ned Flanders

[Andrew]

Rim Kiddlebarger. ;)

[reg]

it has got to be Obama's science advisor-the name escapes me-who I heard on news stories wrote some radical ecological nonesense a few years ago.

[Mark Pertuit]

Someone smart!

[Michael William Smith]

I'll guess Van Jones.

[Evan Day]

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say N.T. Wright.

I'll also say I don't think the sentiment is entirely misguided, even if it is a bit over the top.

[Joe Anstett]

I don´t like him cause I use to have a big car.
I like the Religious Right. Homosexuality and voting for a democrat are the only 2 sins I´m not guilty of. That´s why I like the religious right.
I live in Peru now; no religious right and the pollution is really really bad. Humm.
My guess is any American Emergent type.