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Tag Archives: environmentalism
Des Moines: Theocrats Busted
The Des Moines Register (my emphasis added): The FBI raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines early Friday in search of evidence linked to efforts to sabotage construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. About 30 law enforcement personnel, led by … Continue reading
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Tagged environmentalism, Iowa, Religious Left
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Nuns, a Pipeline and Religious Liberty – or Privilege
Well, here’s something for everyone: Pipelines, eminent domain, nuns, ‘religious liberty’ or (take your pick) religious privilege. As the Washington Post explains the story, an energy company (Williams Cos) wants to run a natural gas pipeline through agricultural land owned … Continue reading
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Tagged Eminent Domain, environmentalism, Religious Left, Religious Liberty, Religious Privilege
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Pope Francis and the “Poverty of Ambition”
Writing for the Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin on Pope Francis’s Laudato Si: With Francis’s pontifical blessing , the greens have now found a spiritual hook that goes beyond the familiar bastions of the academy, bureaucracy, and the media and reaches … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, environmentalism, Peronism, Pope Francis, Religious Left
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Pay-for-pray: Maryland churches promise green sermons for tax break
The Washington Post’s reporter, Arelis Hernández, doesn’t seem quite to realize just how outrageous this story is about churches angling for exemptions from a state-mandated stormwater fee in Prince George’s County, Maryland: Thomas and other pastors also have agreed to … Continue reading
Noted Scientific Authority Weighs Into Climate Debate
Independent Catholic News: The Holy See has called for “an authentic cultural change” to combat climate change which is man-made and therefore man’s responsibility. That was the focus of an address delivered last night to the UN Climate Change Summit … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, environmentalism, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism, Vatican
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God, the EPA and Climate Change Regulation
From Climate Progress: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking to three administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, David Kepley, an elder and deacon at the Providence Presbyterian Church, quoted Leviticus. “God said ‘the land is mine; with me you are … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, environmentalism, Religious Left
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Superstitions Old and New
Raw Story: Televangelist Pat Robertson advised a mother on Monday that she could cure her son’s stomach pains by finding someone to cast out demons that were possibly caused by an ancestor who practiced witchcraft. In an email, a viewer … Continue reading
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Tagged Demons, environmentalism, Pat Robertson, possession, pseudoscience, Religious Right, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., superstition, Vaccines, Witchcraft
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Two Faiths
While there are perfectly good scientific reasons for accepting the theory of AGW, the certainty, the fervor and the moralizing displayed by some in the climate change crusade look very much like a form of religious belief. Under the circumstances … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, environmentalism, Religious Left
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Rubbish Tories
Cross-posted on the Corner: If recycling is, as the saying goes, the liberal equivalent of prayer, what does this make the rubbish bins of Britain? Over at the Daily Telegraph, Brendan O’Neill gives an update: You would think the solution … Continue reading