Paganism and Environmentalism….The Same Thing.
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Paganism and Environmentalism….The Same Thing.
When you worship something, anything, it is your god. Environmentalist worship Nature. It is their god. They refer to earth as our “Mother”. They hold enough of the beliefs of pagans that they fall, head long, into the category of Pagans and Paganism. Their arrogance is off the scale. They do not believe in a God who created the earth and who controls it. They believe it is entirely up to man to take care of the earth. They believe that man can destroy the earth. How utterly arrogant!
Look, with one shrug of its mighty shoulders, the earth could vacate the premises of all humans. It may yet do so.
The point is, you cannot subscribe to environmentalism and not expect your belief in God to be questioned. Granted, there are those individuals who have been misled, or through their desire to help the citizens of the world, committed to this pagan worship of nature in the belief they are “being good stewards of the earth” as our Judeo-Christian scriptures command us.
Environmentalists have a religion of their own. You see… they worship the Environment and Nature. But you can’t serve two masters. You will love the one and hate the other. For those of us who subscribe to the Judeo-Christian faith, we are commanded to love ONLY God. We are not commanded to love the earth, spotted owls, and red cockaded woodpeckers, or even polar bears! We are not even commanded to love trees!
As one who subscribes to the Christian faith, I believe God created the earth as a home for humans. He gave us everything we need to grow and prosper. He gave us dominion over everything on the earth, including the earth. He even commanded us to “subdue” it. In return for all He has given us, we are to worship Him! Not the earth! Not the Trees! Not the Snail Darters, nor the Whales, nor the Dolphins, not the polar bears, etc., etc.
In my opinion, Environmentalism/Paganism and Christianity are incompatible. Eventually, one must rule. I have read the book, and God’s children win!
Longstreet
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That's a somewhat narrow minded view. While it makes it easy to tar everyone with the same brush it would be a little better if you backed up you words with facts. An environmentalist is by definition one who is focused on thier own environment. Environmentalism is by deffinition the focus on the focus on the environment.
But beyond that it breaks down, you see environmentalism is not a world view although world views can be environmentalist.
You also savage the christian camp with a similar lack of understanding. Acording to the Jewish and Christian faiths the world was created by God. It was given over to man to rule and man gave it up. It is for this reason that the devil is also called the prince and the power of the air.
It might be fair to say that "Green Extremists" are equivilant to earth worshipers but even that might take things too far.
Environmentalism has it's roots not in faith in the supernatural but in an absence of it. The form of paganism you describe is Earth centred whereas Environmentalism as a whole can be seen to be Man centred because it focuses only on what man does and does not do. Environmental issues focus arround the environment and man's effect on it. The debate as a whole focuses on the question of does man effect his environment and is it lasting.
A person who believes in he all powerfull Earth Mother would feel that Earth can survive regardless or that we are murdering her. Environmentalism as a global "thing" thinks none of these things.
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