Earth Day: An Assault on Man

The American Thinker ^ | April 22, 2010 | Brian Sussman

[Scanian]

In recent weeks while addressing Tea Party rallies here on the left coast, I ask the assembled patriots what appears to be an odd question: "Would all those from the former Soviet Union please raise your hands?"

A notable number of hands are always raised -- the San Francisco Bay Area is home to a diverse population.

I then ask another curious question: "What does April 22 signify to you?"

Without exception, someone will shout with great displeasure, "Lenin's birth date!"

The crowd clearly sees that I'm on to something. I next ask the former Soviets, "And as a young child in school, who were you told is your grandfather?"

At this point several painfully respond, "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin!"

[Halgr]

excellent article at the link.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[BigCinBigD]

I’m going to celebrate Earth day the same way I always do. I’m going out to the country, sit under a tree while reading a good book. While burning a giant pile of old truck tires.

[BuffaloJack]

Only commies celebrate Lenin’s Birthday (Earth Day).
Anyone here celebrating?
This is Free Republic. I think not.

[gwilhelm56]

**Anyone here celebrating?**

HELL NO!!!

But I am considering starting a POOL for “How many Tractor trailer loads of GARBAGE do they take out of Central Park, the Site of the Earth Day “Celebration”

It usually runs between 4 and 5 ... LOL
Green my ***

[Matchett-PI]

One of Obama’s “spiritual advisors” hosted nutcases in his Orlando/Longwood Florida church for a huge Gaia celebration. Read on:

CARING FOR CREATION: Northland church helps tune evangelicals into environmental activism

Evangelical leaders host ‘creation care’ summit in Orlando-area church

February 22, 2008|By Mark I. Pinsky, Sentinel Staff Writer

Calling climate change “the civil-rights movement of the 21st century,” evangelical Christian leaders gathered at a daylong environmental conference in Longwood Thursday.

Global warming is “an offense against God,” said the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, at Northland, a Church Distributed. “America needs our biblical outrage. We as a nation will face a judgment from God if we don’t do this.”

Evangelicals are latecomers to the environmental movement but are determined to make up for lost time and rally around the green flag, said the Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of Northland, which served as the host congregation for the daylong event.

“We are the ones who are late to the table,” Hunter said.

An emerging national evangelical leader on environmental issues, Hunter said the goal of the conference was to “get mutually stirred up” and to “assume stewardship of this issue.”

Although the gathering was organized by evangelicals, it included speakers and participants from mainline Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim traditions.

The program featured speeches, workshops, skits and even slick videos, including one with Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette. About 125 participants attended, most from Central Florida, but about 35 were from half a dozen states and the District of Columbia.

“I believe that my church needs to get more involved with lending a hand to the environment,” said Eleazar Marquez, 22, a Valencia Community College student representing Restoration Christian Center in Orlando.

“I’ve learned some ways we can integrate methods this church works with to help the environment in our church,” he said.

Religious activism on the environment should be directed at both the grass-roots and the national political arena, speakers said, urging everything from congregational recycling to lobbying for legislation.

“Evangelicals have become the go-to religious community on climate change,” Cizik said. “The political center of gravity has unmistakably shifted on this issue.”

That’s a total reversal of “a mere six years ago,” he said. “It’s gone from being irrelevant to being at the center of the action.”

Cizik is often credited with popularizing the term “Creation Care,” a more politically palatable term among evangelicals than environmentalism. Action on the issue, they say, is a moral imperative.

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Remember Cizik?:

“..When we talked back in 2007, Cizik told me he was optimistic that conservative politicians would eventually come around, though he sounded less confident about this than he did on other topics. It’s possible his faith in the GOP eventually buckeld: He told Terry Gross that he had voted Obama in the Virginia Democratic primary, though he declined to reveal his choice in November. - —Bradford Plumer Posted: Friday, December 12, 2008 6:24 PM
The Future of “Creation Care” http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/12/12/the-future-of-quot-creation-care-quot.aspx

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NY Times Friday 11 March 2005 “.. Mr. Cizik said he had a “conversion” on climate change so profound in Oxford that he likened it to an “altar call,” when nonbelievers accept Jesus as their savior. Mr. Cizik recently bought a Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle. “

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Public radio interview with the Reverend Richard Cizik [a trained political scientist and vice president in Washington for the National Association of Evangelicals]

Key excerpt:

Ms. Tippett: You have become quite a spokesman for Evangelical Christian concern about the environment. And, you know, I wonder if that’s something that surprises you. Is that something that’s on your agenda, that’s on the Evangelical Christian agenda that you would not have imagined there 25 years ago or even…

Rev. Cizik: I would have never imagined it. I just would have to say I had a conversion.

Ms. Tippett: Well, tell me about that.

Rev. Cizik: Not just to Christ, you see, many, many years ago. But in 2002, I had a conversion to the science of climate change. ....

Ms. Tippett: Well, tell me about your conversion experience in 2002. ...

Rev. Cizik: First of all, I met great men of science who, like Sir John Houghton, knighted by the queen, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who came forward and said to me, “You can believe in the science and be a faithful biblical Christian, and I am,’ he said. And so in a humble way, not arrogantly, admitting the questions that still exist, John Houghton and many others, for three days, walked some of us that were there in Oxford, England, through all the science, through our biblical teaching and responsibility, and all I can say is, in a John Wesley kind of fashion, my heart was warmed. My heart, you know, was changed...”
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/evangelicalevolution/transcript.shtml

[Matchett-PI]

I posted some comments to the article here:

Northland hosts global Earth Day simulcast for environment
http://discussions.orlandosentinel.com/20/orlnews/os-northland-earth-day-20100420/10

[trickyricky]

Would it be appropriate to hoist the Stars and Bars?
I pulled Old Glory down when the commies took over,
but I did hoist the Stars and Bars on monday.

[exDemMom]

"Further proving that this is actually a welfare scheme, on page 973 we discover that for workers who lose their manufacturing jobs because the caps on their companies are too repressive and their employer either has to shut down or move operations to the third world to avoid regulation, the "adversely affected worker" shall receive 70 percent of his prior weekly wage, "payable for a period not longer than 156 weeks." In addition, on pages 986-987 we read that the unemployed worker can submit up to $1,500 in job search reimbursements and get another $1,500 to cover his moving expenses."

Once all the jobs are killed, how can people survive on money being churned out by government printing presses? The unprinted paper would have more value...

I read something not long ago about how the brain functions in a dream state. I think that the leftists who come up with these schemes actually never wake up--their brains are stuck in a perpetual dream state such that they truly believe the ridiculous ideas they espouse--for instance, that it's possible to have a society of plenty, where everyone has their needs met, without anyone actually working to produce anything.

[driftless2]

My local lib paper today featured a bunch of stories about earth day, but the most interesting thing was a letter to the editor that appeared to more of a prayer to the earth han anything else. When lefties say they’re atheists, they’re not being truthful. The earth is now their god, and they say prayers and offer sacrifices to the earth. Obviously Earth Day is a holy day of obligation for them.

[Matchett-PI]

((((ping)))) to post #8

You might want to check out my 10 (!) comments in the Orlando Sentinel when you get a chance. :)

HERE:
http://discussions.orlandosentinel.com/20/orlnews/os-northland-earth-day-20100420/10

Maybe add some comments of your own? :) bttt

[Bob Ireland]

***“Creation Care,”***

This is the heart of the Marxist liberation theology.

Also note the bias of the Orlando Sentinel [which you forgot to credit for your quote]... there is no alternate viewpoint presented at all ... whatsoever! It is presented as if all Christians would naturally subscribe to this silliness.

Stalinist!!!

[Matchett-PI]

You got it! I’ve since added more comments and may add more. :)