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gaia
March 2009 
"gaia"
Itlandm
It should go without saying that as a Christian, I am not happy about the choice of name, seeing how it represents a) a polytheist "goddess" and b) Earth. A Christian is mindful of belonging to not only the Earth but Heaven above all, and our materialist age could need more Heaven and less Earth as far as I am concerned. We also seek a more unified approach to the divine than that of polytheism. While I have no doubt that many polytheists of old were every bit as pious as I am, or more, the division of the Divine into many gods and goddesses represent a cracked mirror of the soul rather than a true division of the Godhead.
So, I am saddened by the name change. But I have made a principle of not attributing to evil that which can be explained by stupidity or even ignorance, as the Lord Jesus himself showed us when he prayed: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." In truth, none of us is always mindful, and all of us can wake up more in the future.
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and perhaps we're the seeds who will link gaia to the heavens?
Good catch, Meenakshi! After all, the mission of Christ was not simply to help us emigrate from Earth to Heaven, but rather to make sure the “Kingdom of Heaven” was extended to our worldly life as well. To lift the Earth, and all on it, into Heaven. Of course, this work has barely begun, even after 2000 years, and has taken many twists and turns.