Posted on 04/22/2011 7:13:35 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
Not too long ago, a co-worker asked me a question about doing something in the environmental/recycling arena. I looked at her and said, “I’ll do it because it’s there and when it’s easy, but I’m not going to make a religion out of it.”
This particular person fell away from the Church, as we say, due to a situation over which a member of the clergy does owe her an apology. Since then, or maybe before that happened, this person became consumed with veganism, environmentalism and various other isms that manifest as a person changes life-style.
In a country founded on personal and religious freedom, there is no reason to call any of these changes good, bad or indifferent save one – replacing God being the focus of life with some other quasi-religious lifestyle movement. What’s stunning about it, is how offended individuals who adopt such life-styles get when someone disagrees with them.
Well, people like me are offended that Americans – or people of any other country – replace God with food choices, earth worship, degradation, nastiness, self-absorption, narcissism and try to justify it under the guise of personal freedom. Personal freedom does not exempt Americans from making morally correct choices and thinking of the welfare of others. It also means accepting that not everyone will agree on that. Some of the movements that are considered “good for the planet,” are,at root, very selfish and truly touchy subjects (and sources of great pain for a good number of people).
All of it replaces God. As the influence of religious speakers and leaders waned, base human nature surfaced, and it isn’t pretty. It’s time to put God back at center stage.
My best wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy Easter and Pascha.
Many years ago I was grievously wronged by the pastor of the church I was attending at the time. I never blamed God or the denomination for these wrongs, realizing that people will be people.
When I read the article, first thing I thought of was Al Gore’s carbon credits.
What if, as an agnostic might for example, replace it with a non-quasi-religious lifestyle?
Every society since the dawn of man has turned to some form of religon. And every religion agrees (even humanism) agrees that there is something wrong with us.
Lots of people can’t get past sinful church leaders.
Especially if other parishoners or the denomination backs the sinful church leaders.
I think in some cases God may be using that situation to get that person out of whatever denomination they are in, to a more orthodox one.
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