Eco-Religionists Profess Love for Their Prophet
At least the Eco-Religionists are finally admitting that their beliefs in man-made global Warming amounts to a religious cult. And in this cult of the Gore, there are all types of freaks and weirdos.
From the Canadian Globeandmail here:
Eco-pilgrims gather to ‘heed the Goracle’
They came in their hundreds to hear him speak, and even those left standing outside the crowded hall would not be deterred from lingering in the proximity of the Baptist prophet from Tennessee.
It wasn’t any old-time religion that drew these believers to Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto, but a concept they feel is every bit as crucial to humanity — global warming — that made them want to get close to Al Gore, the impassioned former U.S. vice-president, as he delivered his now famous Inconvenient Truth about climate change.
“From my perspective, it is a form of religion,” said Bruce Crofts, 69. “The religion for this group is doing something for the environment.”
While he no longer espouses traditional religion, Mr. Crofts recalled how, as a Sunday school teacher decades ago, he included Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Kennedy as well as Jesus Christ in his lessons, as examples of great leaders who stepped forward when called upon by circumstance. In that sense, he feels Mr. Gore fits the bill.
There were vegans seeking new recruits, people calling for the closing of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants, a Greenpeace mascot dressed as a polar bear — even the UFO believers showed up.
“I know you won’t believe this,” one of them, a man named Victor Viggiani, said with a practised tongue, “but the extraterrestrial technology involved in this . . . it’s free energy, man. Absolute free energy, and it’ll be the end of fossil fuels.”
Mr. Viggiani, a retired school principal, tried to get an information package to Mr. Gore when he arrived at a side door, but “the Secret Service were there; they saw my backpack and they pushed me away.”
Across the driveway in front of the hall, a large banner exhorted the crowd to “Heed the Goracle.”
“It was not our intention to have a religious approach,” ecoSanity group founder Glenn MacIntosh said, “but it was our understanding that it was that kind of movement that people were craving; that kind of spiritual connection in their gut.”
The environmental movement is a religion and their Muhammad is named Al Gore. As a religion, I hereby call on the United States to cut off all funding for this movement under the separation of church and state.
