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The Environmentalist’s Religion
Alan Stewart Carl had an interesting experience recently…
Last week, my wife and I toured one of the few area preschools not associated with a church. We knew it was a bit hippy-dippy but we also knew it had a good reputation. Everything was going well until the school day began with all the children sitting around in a circle. They use this time to tell a multi-culturally approved story and sing a song, which was fine by me. But then, at the end, they placed a globe in the center of the circle and proceeded to worship it.O.k., they didn’t worship it. They said some mumbo jumbo about loving and caring for Mother Earth and then began the school day. But I was left with the feeling of having just unwittingly prayed to someone else’s god – not something you expect from a secular school.
Read the whole thing here.
3 Responses to “The Environmentalist’s Religion”
Gotta say I side with Eric Cartman when it comes to the care and feeding of hippies.
It’s all about wanting to be ‘better than thou.’
Actually, you can find elements of religiosity in any group sharing a passionate belief in something – the latest child rearing method, political philosophy, even economic philosophy. I’ve heard several speakers speak about the free market system in terms that eerily mimicing professions of religious faith.
why don’t the environmentalist just come out and say they are A religious group? Are they afraid to?