From here:
Cardinal Keith O’Brien of St. Andrews and Edinburgh has joined other Christian leaders, including Anglican Archbishops Rowan Williams and Desmond Tutu, in calling for repentance over indifference to climate change.
Here I am, repenting over my indifference to global warming:
I have always maintained that Western Left-wing ideology, despite denouncing religion, is actually a religion of its own — with the requisite list of both virtues and sins. I have always noted that Lefties are gleeful over showing how much they disdain the longstanding morals of the Christian West, but become terribly serious and fundamentalist and even tyrannical over the new Left-wing dogma. I have known people who can’t show you long and hard enough that they have no respect for marriage or family or Christian virtue or anything that comes from this tradition (though they are usually too ignorant to know exactly what does come from this), but who will become utterly ridiculous in their worship of anything to do with environmentalism or “diversity” or any of the other contrived perspectives that make up their world. I have even seen them become frightening petty tyrants over this new moral code of theirs, to the point where they will injure and terrorize anyone who does not adhere. Shades of the Inquisition, I would say, only now the Inquisitors are the fashionable Left-wingers.
It’s easy — first you heavily denigrate an existing perspective, then you slowly move in an alternative view and send the message that the cool people are now thinking this way, and then you move into tyrant mode by cracking the whip over anyone who doesn’t get with the new agenda.
Sounds to me as if the gentlemen noted above are moving into the “crack the whip” phase.
It is important to care for God’s creation – He commanded such in Genesis. We shouldn’t forget that in the face of this sort of elevation of ‘care of creation’ into an idol.
We human beings cared for God’s creation when I was growing up, and far before that. It’s just that we didn’t make an ideology out of it, and fill every daily newspaper with green rants; we weren’t quite so full of ourselves then. The environmentalists of today pretend that they, and only they, ever held this virtue, and furthermore, that environmentalism is the highest virtue in the land (or is it Diversity?….it changes according to which way the wind is blowing that day). The Environmentalism of present times is never just about caring for God’s creation — it’s about putting together an agenda that will attract power to the holders. When environmentalism no longer serves this purpose, they will come up with some other agenda. The key here is the getting and holding of power, not the caring for God’s creation; that is incidental to the green people.
Perhaps Cardinal O’Brien could overcome the shameful hypocrisy he demonstrates by moving out of his (church-provided) multi-million pound manse – which is not remotely energy efficient – and into something a little less grandiose and a little more fitting to his station in life (which is, incidentally, complete irrelevance).
Perhaps he could also drop the chauffeur-driven, petrol guzzling Daimler limousine that ferries him from one of his useless, evil pronouncements to the next (such as his most recent vile spewings likening gay marriage to slavery), and take public transport instead.
Or, perhaps out of deference to a world in which his mean-spirited drivel has no currency, he could just do us all the kind favour to die off quickly and thus cease to waste valuable oxygen, as so many of his contemporaries in the wholly morally bankrupt institution he represents are currently doing.
His predatory species is “hypocritisaurus celibatus catholicus”, feeds on the gullible (not to mention other vulnerable individuals, such as children), and is going extinct very rapidly. With any luck he will soon put himself out of our misery.