Mother Earth by digitumdei

Reported by John Vidal, a story that provides much food for thought about Bolivia and the bold moves by Latin America’s first indigenous President Evo Morales to enact The Law of Mother Earth which will grant nature rights equal to that of humans.

Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera is quoted, “It makes world history. Earth is the mother of all. It establishes a new relationship between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration.”

Also supporting this grand gesture is Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, “Our grandparents taught us that we belong to a big family of plants and animals. We believe that everything in the planet forms part of a big family. We indigenous people can contribute to solving the energy, climate, food and financial crises with our values.”

Evo Morales receiving blessing from Aymara priestsThese values are born from a pantheistic view that reveres Pachamama, an earth goddess, whose worship will definitely be a threat to the Catholic/Christian majority in Bolivia. Will a priestly order be implemented? Surely a forced conversion back to goddess worship will not be tolerated by the Vatican and other religious missionaries.