Interesting Editorial linking Environmentalism and Religion

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Right on the money.

British Court Deifies Gaia for Earth Day

It’s appropriate that for Earth Day a British court has essentially confirmed Gaia’s status as a goddess who is worshiped by eco-acolyte. What so many have observed—that beliefs about the environment have morphed into a new cult—is now being openly acknowledged by its members. And like all cults, this one rots human brains and endangers the human species.
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http://conservativedatingsite.com/blog/2010/04/creation-and-man/

Just listen to a few of these suggestions for Earth Day 2010 that some of the more radical groups are proposing: taking down “global eco-criminals” like Exxon-Mobil; having school kids meditate about the Spirit of Life (that’s “Spirit of Life” with capital letters); seeking international cooperation on reducing the human population; or working for, and I quote, the “ultimate, inevitable, and necessary dismantling of industrial civilization.”
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This article is full of gems...

Success in stirring powerful religious feelings about the environment does not automatically lead to wise and effective policies.
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Thomas Dunlop, finds that "ever since Emerson, Americans who failed to find God in church took terms and perspectives from Christian theology into their search for ecstatic experiences in nature."
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"Environmentalism's rhetorical strategies, points of view, and ways of thought remain embedded in this evangelical Protestant heritage," he writes, even as this heritage has increasingly been disguised.
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When environmental religion seeks a return to an earlier primitive and natural existence, it is embracing utopian dreams that easily can pose a danger to man and earth alike.
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Its amazing to me that most conservative christians who oppose the climate change stuff can't think this way about their own beliefs.
 
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rjd970 said:
This article is full of gems...

Its amazing to me that most conservative christians who oppose the climate change stuff can't think this way about their own beliefs.
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The thing is that most conservatives Christians who oppose climate change stuff, do so on a scientific basis rather than on religious grounds.

On the green cult side of things many accept as gospel the propaganda of Rachel Carson and Al Gore for instance.
 
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