The new, intolerant religion
Earth Day will be upon us this Friday. The first Earth Day, proclaimed by the City of San Francisco, was founded by Gaylord Nelson and celebrated on March 21, 1970 (the Vernal Equinox, or "nature's primary day of global equilibrium."). Since that first day the date was changed to April 22, Lenin's birthday (Which is not to be confused with Mr. John McConnell's original International Earth Day, still celebrated on the equinox, but that's another story).
The spirit of Earth Day is best summed up in the Sierra Club's Environmental Health Sourcebook, Well Body, Well Earth that tells us to turn to the traditions of ancient cultures such as Buddhist meditations and Native American rituals in order to "reaffirm our bond with the spirit of the living earth." The Earth Day call to serve the well-being of the living planet, Gaia, and to enter into a holistic consciousness with Mother Earth is reinforced with a bidding to use psychics, channelers, witches, and tribal medicine shamans to help us open a dialogue with Goddess Mother Earth.
New World Order
This holiest of days for the extremely radical Green Movement was created through the efforts of environmentalists, feminists, Marxists, and peace children in the sixties. Many saw Buddhism, Native American spirituality, and witchcraft as inspiring models to promote a green agenda. Today's One World visionaries tell us that such spiritual connectivity is the earth's only hope.
As Mikhail Gorbachev, disgraced and ousted ruler of the most polluted nation on the planet, founder of Green Cross International, and still a self-admitted devotee to Marxism stated, "We should help in the development of a global consciousness to change the world for the better." This from a guy who thrived in the corrupt administration of a morally bankrupt nation founded upon the principle of human repression. Gorbachev's organization is, ironically, headquartered at the huge, former U.S. Army complex in San Francisco known as the Presidio.
Remember that Gorbachev and his elite ruling class were raised from birth in and succeeded through aggressive and strict adherence to doctrine in a system that despises morality, spirituality, and individual human dignity. It is therefore chilling while at the same time laughable to hear him use the false front of his organization to lecture, "We must place ethics and human values at the heart of the struggle to harmonize the globalization process."
Like every earth-based cult before this, Earth Day's calling to ancient nature worship is just that — worship. The most vulnerable among us, our children, are faced with the greatest aggression in schools and through the media (Not so, you say? Try watching Ted Turner's cartoon, Captain Planet). No matter how it is packaged, educating children to connect with earth's life force and live a life that embraces this belief, reinstating earth-centered myths as guiding forces to achieve everlasting spiritual bliss, and teaching that practical witchcraft, deification of nature spirits, and mind control have moral value are every bit as religious as the principles of Islam or Christianity.
Indoctrinate the Young
Yet curricula purposely designed to purge proven values and traditional practices while replacing them with a holistic scheme that preaches unity of our planet, oneness with the universe, and the divinity of nature is pounded into our children every single day, in every single public school system in America. If a child wears a Christian crucifix or Star of David, he or she is publicly admonished, humiliated, suspended, and sent home. However, if they wear a green ribbon for Earth Day, they are publicly praised.
I am a practicing conservationist, was raised that way, and never needed a special day to appreciate our natural wonders because I do so every day. I realize that plants and animals are living things, finite in number, and should be respected and husbanded. But I also understand that they do not possess occult forces and certainly do not hold any more importance in the universal scheme, spiritual or secular, than do human beings. I am but one of God's creatures, but the only one given the precious gift of reason.
So this week when you are bombarded with Earth Day's craftily-engineered environmental vision of earth stewardship, finding your divine inner-self, and global unity, remember its ugly, central theme as well: People are guilty of despoiling the beauty of and committing atrocities on the Supreme Entity Gaia. We are merely a parasitic colony whose presence must be reduced or even eliminated.
Woe to you should you hold another belief. This new religion does not celebrate intellectual diversity nor tolerate freedom of the human spirit, human reasoning, and human life. If you question, at best you are automatically labeled ignorant. At worst, you are a purveyor of evil and therefore an enemy.