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> [What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-clapp/what-worries-some-people-about-consumption-and-i-confess-at-the/)

Rodney Clapp

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## More by Rodney Clapp

> [Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-clapp/significantly-god-in-genesis-1-pronounces-the-rest-of-creation-good/)

Rodney Clapp

> [It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-clapp/it-was-only-in-the-late-nineteenth-century-and-then-the-twentieth/)

Rodney Clapp

> [What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-clapp/what-worries-some-people-about-consumption-and-i-confess-at-the/)

Rodney Clapp

> [Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-clapp/priestly-stewardship-suggests-that-creation-is-not-just-for-us-that/)

Rodney Clapp

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