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Last week, Tony Blankley discussed two British professors who have written books on the links between environmentalism and religion, the association which is called “neo-animist paganism.” The article, “Al Gore’s Remission of Sin,” helps explain the rhetoric of global warmers and its similarity to “the inherent prophetic nature of the religious instinct.”

Moreover, there has been a conscious awareness that religious fervor would be needed to energize the environmental movement. As Joseph Brean points out in his recent National Post review of Dr. Orrell’s book:

“Forty years ago, shortly after Rachel Carson launched modern environmentalism a Princeton history professor named Lynn White wrote a seminal essay called the Historical Roots of our Ecological Crises: ‘By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not.’ It was a prescient claim. In a 2003 speech Michael Crichton closed the circle, calling modern environmentalism ‘the religion of choice for urban atheists a perfect 21st Century re-mapping of traditional JudeoChristian beliefs and myths.”

The article further explores the relationship between religion and global warmers, particularly “the sense of sin and the search for remission of such sin.” This, of course, refers to the paying of eco-indulgences (aka, “carbon offsets”) that has received so much press lately thanks to Al Gore’s blatant hypocrisy.

Highly recommended reading.

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