PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
A short time ago, I read Melanie Phillips book, The World Turned Upside Down. The following is from a recent article that is, in part, based on the book.
1. "Remarkably, in our modern world supposedly dominated by reason, primitive religions and paganism are enjoying a renaissance. The fastest growing religious category in America is witchcraft and paganism .One contributing factor to this trend is the rise in another cause célèbre of the intelligentsia: environmentalism.
2. God was dead, apparently; and yet secular progressives were seeking spiritual expression by going backwards in time to the paganism that had preceded the Hebrew Bible and Christianitytexts which they called reactionary, [Melanie] Phillips writes [in The World Turned Upside Down]. They rejected and attacked the male God revealed in Scripture in favor of Mother Earth and varying versions of female-dominated spiritualism.
3. The nature-worship that feeds and informs the environmental movement is the heretical notion that the greatest enemies of the planet are human beings. Environmentalisms most extreme proponents are not content with antipollution efforts, for example; they advocate a revolutionary return to hunter-gatherer primitivism. Some have compared humans to an infectious disease, a cancer on the planet. Valuing humans over other animals is branded as speciesism, a sin as unforgivable as racism or sexism, if not more so. Paul Watson, who founded Greenpeace and directs the Sierra Club, said that earthworms are far more valuable than people, and the world will be a much nicer place without us.
4. Unsurprisingly, many of them are big believers in population-control methods like compulsory sterilization and abortion. Even John Holdren, adviser to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote a book in 1977 approving of these despotic policies.
5. These [views] represent a fundamental hostility to reason. Yet they are manifestly present in the supposedly irreproachable, objective realm of science: Consider the evidence-defying, data-manipulating commitment to the man-made global warming doctrine and the impassioned vilification of skeptics; or the blacklisting and excommunication of scientists
The
 Upside-Down World | theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God
1. "Remarkably, in our modern world supposedly dominated by reason, primitive religions and paganism are enjoying a renaissance. The fastest growing religious category in America is witchcraft and paganism .One contributing factor to this trend is the rise in another cause célèbre of the intelligentsia: environmentalism.
2. God was dead, apparently; and yet secular progressives were seeking spiritual expression by going backwards in time to the paganism that had preceded the Hebrew Bible and Christianitytexts which they called reactionary, [Melanie] Phillips writes [in The World Turned Upside Down]. They rejected and attacked the male God revealed in Scripture in favor of Mother Earth and varying versions of female-dominated spiritualism.
3. The nature-worship that feeds and informs the environmental movement is the heretical notion that the greatest enemies of the planet are human beings. Environmentalisms most extreme proponents are not content with antipollution efforts, for example; they advocate a revolutionary return to hunter-gatherer primitivism. Some have compared humans to an infectious disease, a cancer on the planet. Valuing humans over other animals is branded as speciesism, a sin as unforgivable as racism or sexism, if not more so. Paul Watson, who founded Greenpeace and directs the Sierra Club, said that earthworms are far more valuable than people, and the world will be a much nicer place without us.
4. Unsurprisingly, many of them are big believers in population-control methods like compulsory sterilization and abortion. Even John Holdren, adviser to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote a book in 1977 approving of these despotic policies.
5. These [views] represent a fundamental hostility to reason. Yet they are manifestly present in the supposedly irreproachable, objective realm of science: Consider the evidence-defying, data-manipulating commitment to the man-made global warming doctrine and the impassioned vilification of skeptics; or the blacklisting and excommunication of scientists
The
 Upside-Down World | theTrumpet.com by the Philadelphia Church of God