There is a certain type of person in the Western world.  Well meaning people who think that they hold the fate of the world in their hands and who think that they can save the world…and who think that you have to help.  These are the people who live by the three R’s.  They want to drive a Prius but can’t quite afford one yet.  They casually talk about Global Warming like it’s a fact but who have never even bothered to investigate the science behind “Climate Change”.  These people are members of the new religion – the religion of environmentalism.  And guess what?  They are just as passionate and just as illogical as adherents of any other religion.  And guess who is a member of the New Church?  Obama.  The man who said: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

Obama is a true believer in the religion of Environmentalism.

Not the science of the environment. Where that science survives, it provides us with a vital service; and it doesn’t take any faith to believe in the findings of genuine scientists doing science properly.

“There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.

“The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children in kindergartens, schools, and colleges all over the world.

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“Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.

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“Unfortunately, some members of the environmental movement have also adopted as an article of faith the belief that global warming is the greatest threat to the ecology of our planet. That is one reason why the arguments about global warming have become bitter and passionate.

“Much of the public has come to believe that anyone who is skeptical about the dangers of global warming is an enemy of the environment. The skeptics now have the difficult task of convincing the public that the opposite is true.

“Many of the skeptics are passionate environmentalists. They are horrified to see the obsession with global warming distracting public attention from what they see as more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet, including problems of nuclear weaponry, environmental degradation, and social injustice.

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Barack Obama’s comments, however, reveal him to be in the religious-faith category. The Environmental Puritans believe that any opposition to their dogmas is heresy, and that anything that doesn’t match their vision of how humans should live is a sin.

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Still, the Environmental Puritans agree with the ayatollahs on this one point: America is the Great Satan. And Obama echoes that view when he refers to our gasoline consumption, our eating, and our air-conditioning and heating as if they were sins for which we are accountable to the rest of the world.

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When Obama says we eat too much — we, whose surpluses feed so many nations that when we cut back a little on food production in order to make ethanol it causes near famine elsewhere — what is he suggesting?

Is he saying that, as president, he would put us all on a diet?

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In point of fact, I don’t think Obama really understands the implications of his statement — any more than he understood what he was saying when he said he’d sit down and talk with Iran, Cuba, and other enemies like Hamas and Hezbollah, or than he knew how clueless he was when he declared that Iran was less of a threat than the Soviet Union because it was smaller.

 

Read the rest of this article – Orson Scott Card’s conclusions are brilliant.  Spot on.