Culture Wars
Living on BorrowedStolen Time
by Clay Staggs
Bryan Bond told me one time that human beings were created to worship, and if they’re not worshiping God, they’ll find something else to take His place. Nowhere is that statement more true than when applied to the environmentalist movement.
Rush Limbaugh says that it’s the new home for communists and socialists following the fall of the USSR, and I think that’s true enough where its politics is concerned. However, it goes much deeper than that - into a spiritual vacuum created by failure to recognize God as the proper focus of worship, where Mother Earth is substituted.
One important thing about making a substitution for God is that it doesn’t take away the knowledge of man’s sinfulness. Having bounced out the Creator and substituted the creation instead, the sins are perceived as being committed against the creation. And, of course, sin demands an atoning sacrifice, does it not?
As Exhibit A I offer ABC - the Australian Broadcasting Company. They have a cartoon character, Greena, who is a warrior princess devoted to saving the planet from carbon-belching knuckle-draggers like me. She’s part of this portion of their website directed at indoctrinating kids about how we’re destroying the planet with our environmentally rapacious lifestyles.
That is, sadly, not too uncommon these days. Where it goes to prove my point about sacrificing to the Enviro-Baals is the Greenhouse Calculator, which purports to tell its users (bear in mind that this is directed at children) when they should die, because they’ve used up their “fair share” of the earth’s resources. Go here and take the test yourself. Apparently I should have died at age 5.3. I think it’s especially effective how your “carbon pig” gets bigger and fatter as you answer each question, and explodes in a bloody mess right before they announce your age of death.
This is dark and sick. It’s utterly outrageous the way it’s packaged and aimed at kids. But, is it not the logical extension of the environmentalist agenda? Gaia has a problem, and we’re it. We’ve got to atone.
Posted by Clay Staggs at May 30, 2008 09:32 AM
Well, Clay, maybe you and I will get lucky and end up in environmental hell, where we will drive Hummers, binge on red meat, gratitously smash small mammals, wash our bodies in oil, and enjoy a worldwide tropical climate….doesn’t sound too bad does it?
Sounds pretty good to me, especially if you throw in a few beers and Cuban cigars…..
Clay, I audibly laughed. yes, it was a real LOL.
Kudos for the brilliant new term I shall now use: Enviro-Baals. I just read a great quote this past week: “Idols will always eventually demand blood.” courtesy of Douglas Wilson.
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How apropos!
I made it most of the way through high school. I should have died at 16.8. Maybe I’m more of an environmentalist than I thought, and apparently considerably more than you, Clay. I was thinking about taking my 30mpg Honda to Biloxi next week, but maybe I’ll be taking the company Tahoe now. I need to shave some years off, I can’t let Clay beat me.
Speaking of beer and cigars…sounds like a fine way to end this week.