Easter Day becomes Earth Day.
Postulants for this new religion are given the LED of Christ and repeated baptisms in waterless showers. The Koinonia of the malodorous must piously recycle, reuse, compost and abstain from braking, accelerating, dirty investing and driving on flabby tires. If that isn’t heaven on earth, I don’t know what is.
In lieu of public self-flagellation with bound copies of the Truth and Reconciliation Report, backsliders, will be permitted to recite 100 Hail Marks of Mission under the direction of an eco-bishop. Indulgences may be purchased here.
From here:
An Easter people respond to climate change by proclaiming the good news, by proclaiming the good news through taking actions that honor our Creation……
Here are some things we can do:
1) Use water efficiently. Every time you shower, wash your hands, wash dishes, or drink water, give thanks for this resource and consider how you might avoid wasting it.
2) Reduce waste and recycle. I just spoke with someone this week who has a friend who has two young children, but together as a family they have pledged to go an entire year with zero waste. Perhaps you can’t get to zero waste, but consider how you might reduce your waste, by composting, using reusable products or buying products with less packaging.
3) Drive smart, avoid hard accelerations or braking, get regular maintenance, check your tire pressure. Or better yet, give the car a break now and then and take public transit. On your next car purchase, buy a fuel efficient vehicle.
4) Use LED light bulbs.
5) Reuse and recycle all you can.
6) Review your investments and divest from those companies known to be the biggest polluters. Start with the much published list of the 200 dirtiest companies.
7) Write letters to our leaders and tell them combating climate change must be a priority.
I can’t find anything in this list to which I have a moral objection, but nor can I find anything my brother-in-law (who is a convinced atheist) would object to either.
Even earthier by the ‘Canadian Church Calendar’:
no ‘Mother’s Day’ and no ‘Father’s Day’;
instead, ‘Christian Family Sunday’ – the ‘inclusive’ Dioceses getting one out of three on that anti-Creator-Creation ( + Genesis 1-3) designation,
and that only barely.
I’m not sure how this is “earthier” but it’s a great idea.
Both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are 20th Century inventions. It makes much more sense to celebrate the Christian family/household rather than just one or two individuals in it (and unfortunately in many homes these days, those “individuals” are often no longer in the family picture).
‘Earthier’ in the sense that the more the professedly Creation-conscious profess to seek the natural, the more they embrace the unnatural: which is not Christian.
‘Fathers’ and ‘Mothers’ were Divine “inventions” + Genesis 1-3,
but those terms now ill-accord with the redefined qua inclusive anti-Creator ‘family’.
Past time for Christians to repair the Biblical family;
not be party to further “deconstructing” it, as even noted feminist Germaine Greer observed of late about one noted male “Mother” to two IVF children.
Such faith in action took place on Sunday,June 7, 2015, by the ten thousand strong ‘Canadian Familes Alliance’ Protest march to Queen’s Park,Toronto,to denounce the Premier’s proposed vile sex-education program,
chanting, “We say no! We say no!”;
and demanding her resignation in her accountability for the input of her Deputy Minister of Education into that program: as a convicted pedophile.
As if all households have a family together to celebrate. They don’t. In fact, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can take on even greater meanings for parents and children after a separation, when the parents may not get along but the children get along with, and love, both of them. A very present concept.
Please encourage these eco types. For sheer hilarity, based on presentation of the ridiculous, they are hard to beat. We all need good laughs now and then.
As a Christian, what specific action item do you have a problem with or see as laughable?
Well “drive smart” is kind of laughable grammar ?! 🙂
And if you’re a AGW denier, such as I am? Does this mean I can drive my car all I want?