Neo-Pagan Sacraments and Holy Texts

Cardinal George Pell, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, managed to insult environmentalists and Muslims at his speech before Catholic business leaders in Florida earlier this month. 

"Cardinal Pell's speech described concerns about global warming as "hysteric and extreme".  He says these worries are a symptom of pagan emptiness. Cardinal Pell says in the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate the gods but today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions."

Pretty funny! There is so much in the way that leftists/feminists/environmentalists think and act that demonstrates that the post-Christian world has retreated to paganism.  They don't believe in the myths and stories of the Bible, but they happily believe (with religious fervor) in a great many other baseless things (recycling glass matters, gun control works).  I'm just thinking out loud here, but here are some of the  beliefs, sacraments and sacred texts of the neo-pagans:

God has been replaced by Mother Earth (Gaiea).

The sacraments include recycling and abortion.  Maybe I should label them dogma, since they can never be questioned. "We value diversity" is a great incantation to protect yourself with.  Another protective incantation is "No always means No, no matter how softly said."  Buddha and Ganesh are proper statuary.  One must show adoration for all cultures except for white, Western culture (which really is no culture at all anyway). 

Sacred texts: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,  The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, anything by Noam Chomsky.

I'm sure there are many more examples.  Please add to this compilation of sacred dogmas, sacraments and texts of the post-Christian neo-pagans. Thanks in advance!

Comments

[Solomon]

Great subject. Very quickly before going out the door.

Anything by Karl Marx.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson -- lead to the worldwide banning and continuing hysteria over DDT thus causing the deaths of untold millions of human beings from malaria -- mostly in poor nation.

[Annony]

Paper bags are holier than plastic bags. Plastic bags are evil.

[Sissy Willis]

Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, not to mention his latest contribution to the Church of Green liturgy, An Inconvenient Truth. There's a movie associated with that, and Slick Willy seems to be shilling for the Cigar Store Indian in his graduation speeches this spring as well.

What is it with these pathological liars' obsession with the word truth? (As if we didn't know)

Here's an apt excerpt from my "Soylent green" post of a couple of years back: http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2004/01/_blogging_is_no_4.html

As I posted a couple of weeks ago in "To everything there is a season":

By the temperature of global-warming hysteria under the leadership of Al "An Inconvenient Truth" Gore, it appears no one was listening then, and no one is listening now. Scientists are only human, after all, and for many -- if not most -- getting the grants and the accolades and running with the herd trump the search for truth. Yet another example of a Fear Society Lite, with media elites reflexively promulgating the party line. As NBC's Andrea Mitchell admitted way back in 1990 (from an Insight magazine clipping in our snail files), "clearly the networks have made the decision now, where you'd have to call it advocacy."

http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2006/04/the_full_pink_m.html

[Sissy Willis]

Another interesting post -- http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2006/05/we_cant_bear_to.html -- from MAMS (me and my show):

I loved -- even as I was horrified at her findings -- Liza Gross's article on scientific illiteracy, but as a Darwinian libertarian, I was wicked annoyed with the knee-jerk leftoid vapidity exhibited in the cartoon you used to illustrate the article, with its lumping together of Fox News and scientific ignorance.

Your politics are painfully "correct." The jury on who or what is responsible for global warming is still out (I myself, like Sally Baliunas, find sun spots the most likely candidate), and Fox News is a cable news network that provides an alternative to the monolithic leftist, anti-Bush so-called mainstream media.

You folks ought to stick to what you know, evolution. Political correctness muddies the waters and taints your otherwise excellent arguments.

[DJ & T]

I read recently somewhere else that a male college student said his best pickup line is "I'm not a religious person, but I'm a very spiritual person." He claims that he is guaranteed to get action with that line. Neo-pagans generally disdain any organized religion, I suppose they prefer any disorganized religion.

[BillyHW]

Contraception, fornication, homosexual experiences, excessive taxation.

Oh, and pornography.

[toolips]

Saints: Al Gore and Rachel Carson
Heretic: Anyone who disputes Al Gore's global warming claims.

[Urban]

It is glad to a meeting!
;)

[Antonin]

I like it and the background and colors make it easy to read.
;)