What do wolves, bears, red-legged frogs, whip-snakes, fairy shrimp, spotted owls, the California gnatcatchers, chinook, chum, coho, sockeye and steelhead, all have in common? Their well-being is protected by a religion funded by taxpayers. Think not? In 1994, Roger Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, declared that "wilderness is a religious concept" that should be a "part of our religious life." Many environmentalists have now adopted religious themes -- Judeo-Christian and animist -- including humanity's guilt and the need for salvation. For example: Environmentalism would only succeed when it had a religious foundation, wrote Lynn White in a 1967...
