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Green Religion

Environmentalism claims to be based on science but contains all the aspects of a religion. Since this religion has the backing of the UN, we shouldn’t ignore it. ...
John Larabell

Environmentalism claims to be based on science but contains all the aspects of a religion. Since this religion has the backing of the UN, we shouldn’t ignore it.

Religion: It’s as old as man himself. As long as humans have inhabited this Earth, there has been evidence of religious beliefs of some fashion or another. While the “enlightened” West has largely become secular and has done away with “religion” in the traditional sense, and has claimed to have embraced secularism, religion is still alive and well in the hip urban centers of North American and European nations.

And what religion is this? This religion is Environmentalism, or what some are calling “Greenism.” Its practitioners are sometimes referred to as “Greens.” It is a “stealth” religion in the sense that many Greens would not consider themselves religious. But they are.

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