Crucifix out, warming in (EU adopts Global Warming as new religion)

Globe & Mail ^ | 11/6/2009 | Rex Murphy

[mojito]

What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised.

Matthew Arnold, the great Victorian poet, marked the turning moment. He had early intimations of “the way we live now,” a way largely evacuated of its Christian allegiances, certainly – in the public sphere – evacuated of the regard and respect that the profession of Christianity once automatically evoked.

“The Sea of Faith/ Was once, too, at the full,” he wrote, before going on in lines of immense power to record:

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Arnold was more than a bit of a prophet. Blasted by the great cold winds of secularism and scientism, faith in the old sense, faith in Christianity in once or so-called Christian countries, is not only in decline and defensive. Faith is, at the public level, being actively pushed away, visited with dismissive scorn. At the same time, ideas, attitudes and “positions” that have never been seen under the rubric of faith increasingly seek the protections of “sanctified” belief.

What else to make of a human-rights ruling (no, not from one of our own restless engines of pseudo equity) from the European Court this week. According to this ruling, the crucifixes that hang in most Italian classrooms violate religious and educational freedoms. Yes, the cross in the Catholic country violates religious and educational freedoms.

[mojito]

Bow down to your new masters as foretold in the epistles of Goracle.

[a fool in paradise]

Fasttrack this.

I will NOT submit to the Goron’s religious teachings and cannot be made to pay indulgences to another man’s faith.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Look at that headline CO.

I’m only one day ahead of the news — but I was ahead of it. 8)

[Carry_Okie]

From Natural Process: That Environmental Laws May Serve the Laws of Nature, page 33,

If a belief system has a flawed foundation in logic, a codified structure of beliefs, a hierarchy, icons, a personified supernatural deity [Gaia], and spiritual rites, then it is equivalent to a religion whether it has a 501(c3) or not. If a religious body of belief starts to direct policy, it is equivalent to an establishment of religion capable of confounding all civic deliberation. Perhaps the only thing that keeps deep ecologists from being sued successfully is that they don’t have an office or a bank account.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

LOL, and you were at least 8 years ahead of me!

Perhaps the only thing that keeps deep ecologists from being sued successfully is that they don’t have an office or a bank account.

That no longer applies; but now they own the courts or the laws?

[Carry_Okie]

That no longer applies; but now they own the courts or the laws?

Well, the office is the UN and the bank account is the IMF, so in a way... but they still can't be sued.

[steelyourfaith]

Ecotard kooks from a denomination of the Church of the Warming Globe want you to become "very happy" by sending them a donation (I'm not making this reality-reflecting-parody up):

 

The Regeneration Project
and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign
"A religious response to global warming"
Donate and feel "very happy" about your life.