"This is where our God lives and it is being destroyed," said Mwangi Njorge, 95, one of those mostly older Kenyans who continue to make sacrifices to the deity they believe resides on Mt. Kenya. He worries that the disappearing ice is a sign of God's fury. "God is very angry, and if things don't change, I fear he might abandon us forever."Phrased this way, the idea of a God abandoning humanity is strangely poetic and tragic. One Judeo-Christian concept of Hell is simply this -- the abandonment by God. It certainly borrowed heavily from strains of "animistic" religions, like these in Kenya. But modern Christianity (with its healthy dose of Plato & Zoroastrianism), banished this possibility in earthly reality. God is that all-seeing-all-knowing eye, if you will, who metaphysically cannot abandon.
Too bad. This theology lends some hefty gravitas to the global warming challenge.
