Earth Day
April 29, 2004

Well, another Earth Day has come and gone (yawn). Earth day was started by liberal Senator Gaylord Nelson, who started it as a protest movement in conjunction with the anti-Vietnam War movement. His own words concerning this venture are very informative:

"Six years would pass before the idea that became Earth Day occurred to me while on a conservation speaking tour out West in the summer of 1969. At the time, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," had spread to college campuses all across the nation. Suddenly, the idea occurred to me - why not organize a huge grassroots protest over what was happening to our environment?"

Earth Day was started to protest the lack of environmental concerns in our national psyche. Since Nelson could get no publicity for his environmentalism, he figured he would follow the Vietnam War protestors and use their example of activism as a model for his own. Hence was born modern liberal/socialist political activism. The anti-Vietnam crowd planted the seed of modern activism and the Earth Day movement grew from it. Of course many other liberal/socialist movements took their cue from the anti-Vietnam crowd as well.

The USA is a free country and citizens do have freedom of speech and the right to assemble peaceably in public and the right to seek redress of their grievances from the government. So these folks were well within their constitutional rights to do what they did. What started as an environmental protest grew into the fringe movement it has become today. I know, I know, it seems like it is mainstream. But no, it is the fringe. What makes it seem mainstream is the major US News media. Many major media journalists cut their political teeth on Vietnam War protests and all that followed. They are a part of that fringe but they claim to be mainstream. Indeed they believe themselves to be mainstream. They believe that the majority of Americans think like they do. Therefore, they report the events of the fringe as mainstream events.

I realize that many people take part in Earth day because they think it is mainstream. Many are deceived. Is Earth Day mainstream? No. I will list a few reasons why.

Let me start with the latest Earth Day extremism. The "green" movement is just one of the fringe elements of Earth day. This Earth Day, greens are advocating diaperless babies. They say that moms should learn the signals babies give when they are ready to…well…you know. They should carry around a lidded bucket so that when babies begin to do what comes natural to them, the moms can catch the products of those natural movements in the bucket. Voila! Problem solved. No more diapers clogging the garbage dumps. Oh, I am sorry. I meant to use the politically correct term landfill, but I forgot. Perhaps I will remember next time. Can you imagine the fragrance at the local grocery store? Or perhaps the local restaurant?

In the past it has been waterless toilets, electric cars (how about the pollution produced by generating electricity for these cars?), bicycles, windmill farms (but NIMBY), global warming, global cooling (which is it?), recycling (few products can be successfully recycled without making more pollution than the recycling produces), overpopulation, receding forests, global hunger, and let us not forget animal rights. Of course, these extremists want the US to sign on to the Kyoto accords, which has more stringent controls on Americans that any other nation.

Earth Day attracts much of the loony left and their fringe ideas. You will find the same left-wing groups at Earth Day celebrations that you find at abortion rights marches, anti-war protests, feminist rallies, gay rights events, animal rights gatherings, and save the trees, whales, snail darters, etc., marches. If you can think of a left-wing event, those folks are there. These people are on the fringe. They are not in the mainstream.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the communists have found a home in the wacko environmentalist community. I offer as proof of this Green Cross International. GCI was founded for specifically "building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and supporting the implementation of Agenda 21." I quote the official UN website: "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment." Agenda 21 is the UN's own environmental movement. Mikhail Gorbachev created Green Cross International, whose purpose is to support Agenda 21, which is the UN environmentalism movement. Need I remind you that he was the final Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? The final dictator of Soviet Communism is now an environmentalist.

They stand for the same thing. They support global socialism and global government that controls every aspect of the lives of all people except them, for they are the elite. Under their Utopia all property rights would vanish, religion would be outlawed, that is, all religion except that allowed by the state. The state religion would be based on environmentalism, and no one who claimed that their religion was the only way would be tolerated. Personal transportation would be outlawed, except maybe bicycles. Freedom of movement would be restricted. Food consumption would be regulated with only politically correct foods available. Abortion would be enforced to control the population. Speech would be controlled, and politically incorrect speech would be outlawed. The press would be strictly controlled. And there would be no private ownership of guns. Only the police and military would be allowed to own weapons. I seem to be talking about Oceania. Well that is what the environmental fanatics wish for.

Global Green, another militant fringe environmentalist organization, are honoring Gorbachev on the 10th anniversary of his establishment of Green Cross International. I am telling you, the communists are alive and well in the environmentalist movement.

Let me change direction here. There is another aspect of Earth Day many do not seem to see. That is the religious aspect. The New Age movement has joined in with the environmentalists to celebrate Earth Day. The lines between the two have become blurred and becoming more so.

For example, Let me mention some things ex Dominican priest, Matthew Fox, believes and teaches in his book, "The Coming of the Cosmic Christ". He is the founder of the University of Creation Spirituality. Creation spirituality teaches that we are all divine. I quote from their site:

"That we experience that the Divine is in all things and all things are in the Divine (Panentheism) and that this mystical intuition supplants theism (and its child, atheism) as an appropriate way to name our relation to the Divine and experience the Sacred."

Mr. Fox teaches that mother earth is dying. He teaches that Christian fundamentalism has killed the mother in each of us by diminishing the value of the earth. The earth is our mother. We are the womb of God and Christ will be born in each and every one of us, thus the Cosmic Christ. Among other things, he claims that Jesus was a feminist, self critical, and a pantheist. He teaches unlimited sex, the divine within us, and a new understanding of the Bible. He sees a connection between Jesus and the goddess earth.

It is really all about sex. Matthew Fox wants us to return to the pagan fertility rites of wanton sex for religious reasons. I quote Fox from his "The Coming of the Cosmic Christ":

"I believe that the Western church, following in the spirit of St. Augustine, basically regrets the fact that we are sexual, sensual creatures. ...It is time that the voice of the churches joined the voices of the other creatures to praise the Creator for the surprising and imaginative gift of our sexuality.... Let religion and the churches abandon their efforts to be 'houses of sublimation.' Instead, reenter the cosmic mystery that sexuality is and teach your people, young and old, to do the same, remembering justice, remembering responsibility as intrinsic to the mystical experience. All lovemaking (as distinct from 'having sex') is Christ meeting Christ."

What does this have to do with Earth Day? Mr. Fox and his University of Creation Spirituality are supporters of and participants in Earth Day.

A basic belief of the New age is the mother earth is the goddess Gaia. She is alive and we are killing her. She gave birth to us and we are destroying our own mother. Conservative Christians are the worst offenders.

Mr. Fox is an ordained Dominican priest (defrocked by the Vatican) and a liberation Theologian. Liberation Theology has much in common with Marxism. It is socialist in scope and anti-capitalist. It is amazing that Liberation Theology, Creation Spirituality, and environmentalism are close linked. Here we have a soup of communism, religion, and environmentalism together in one pot.

The ideas taught by religious environmentalists are the same tired arguments Satan has used throughout history to influence people away from God. His lies have been very successful since before the flood. Shortly after the flood he incited men to reject God and work toward a one-world religion of fertility (and earth) worship at Babel. Several thousand years after God scattered mankind (I refuse to use the PC word 'humankind'), we have come full circle and are again in the midst of building the one-world system of Babel. This time the beast and the false prophet will rule it. I believe that environmentalism will play a major part in the religion of the false prophet.

Well perhaps I should recall my yawn at the beginning of this article. Governments and schools all over the USA are sponsoring Earth Day. My own Granddaughter was forced by her middle school to participate in an Earth Day activity. It consisted of forcing the students to go out on a clean up project to pick up litter in and around the school. Now picking up litter is a worthy exercise, and good for youth, but not when it is in the name of Earth Day. Since Earth Day is a religious day, shouldn't it get the same treatment at school as Christian activities? They are relegated to after school activities. Since Earth Day is religious, I do not want my grandchildren to be forced to participate in it. That is especially true since Earth Day so anti-Christian in scope. I intend to prevent my children from participating in it next April.