“The environment should compete with religion as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” claims a paper on the United Nations Environmental Program and its need to be at the center of political and economic decisions at the U.N. and around the world. Reported in a Fox News exclusive, the author of the paper, Mark Halle believes:
there are signs that the hugely ambitious role he and his fellow-thinkers sketched for UNEP as religion’s main competitor are “beginning to happen.” Halle pointed to UNEP’s espousal this year of a so-called Green Economy Initiative, a proposal to radically redesign the global economy and transfer trillions of dollars in investment to the world’s poorest developing countries, but one that is couched in terms of providing new green jobs, an end to old, unfair carbon-based energy subsidies, and greater global fairness and opportunity. Halle called the development “quite exciting.”
I’m sure the U.N. will do its best to keep all of that money out of corrupt hands in various African governments, just like they did with the Iraq Oil for Food program.
This is the original document. At least they’re trying to replace existing religions, instead of suborning them. The second is even more dangerous.
I hope we remember the lessons of the last secular religion, the one that had Marx and Lenin as its prophets.
I doubt that enough people remember those lessons. Some of us repeatedly make the same mistakes and bad decisions, as should be evident by the dominating political party in Washington and many of the states.
Today’s Breakpoint Commentary by Chuck Colson discussed a recent British Supreme Court decision that called belief in man made climate change a religion and said a person couldn’t be fired for holding that belief.
Global Warming As Religion