“Green Confessions” to Help Eco-Sinners Find Forgiveness
August 31st, 2007Will the Church sell carbon offset indulgences?
Hmm.
Saint Gore?
Via: Times Online:
Forgotten to recycle any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer?
The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in “green confessions†to help eco-sinners to find forgiveness.
Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county’s Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.
Vested in a green chasuble-style garment made from recycled curtains, and in a booth constructed of recycled doors, he will hear the sins of of those who have not recycled the things they ought to have done and who have consumed the things they ought not to have done.
Father Sutch tries to practise what he preaches but has turned the heating down so low at his church of St Benet’s that at least one parishioner has fled to the warmer care of a neighbouring priest for winter services.
He told The Times: “It is not, I hope, blasphemous to do this. I do not think it is. It is just an attempt to make people conscious of the way they live. The Church is aware of green issues and of how aware we have to be of how we treat the environment.
It just gets more and more difficult to write comedy because reality keeps on managing to be so much more absurd.
On the Gore topic Kevin. You were wondering aloud about the truth of global warming a few weeks back and seeing Al Gore’s name there has made me wonder if we shouldn’t be at least a little bit suspicious when one of the elite starts promoting this issue?
Do you notice how there’s some form of pointless distraction for every brand of discontent out there, with none of it resulting in any substantial, positive change in anything?
The global warming industrial complex is fascinating in this regard. Almost all of the noise is being made by people who do NOTHING in terms of taking personal responsibility for feeding themselves and dealing with their own wastes. They just want more fascism. Green fascism. Big brother. Skyscraper farms. Genocide.
Incentives to do the right things? Virtually none. Laws preventing people from doing the right things: By the stack.
What will Saint Gore present us with?
God’s endorsement of a microchip implant to provide the Ministry of Love and Global Warming with accurate records of your hot water usage and your pet’s fart output? The War on Global Warming? A database of suspected raw milk consumers, keepers of unregistered chickens and home kill meat eaters?
“It is God’s Will, my Son,” Saint Gore will proclaim.
If environmentalism isn’t libertarian in nature, it’s just more of the same old fascist bullshit. I’m not fooled, even for one second, by these pricks.
Forget the rhetoric about global warming. Focus on the proposed mainstream solutions. If you know what I know about all the alternatives and techniques that aren’t being used, except by a handful of us permaculture freaks out here on the edge, then the true motivation of the Elite becomes clear.
And just wait for it: People like me will be declared the enemy by the mainstream “environmental” movement. Why? Because I won’t tolerate the fascist nature of it, and my environmentalism distributes power rather than concentrating it further into the hands of a few.