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Today, the left sees humanity as a blight on an otherwise pristine natural world. It measures the value of individuals solely in terms of CO2 emissions and carbon footprints. Instead of turning human beings into energy, a la "The Matrix," it celebrates non-existence as a way to reduce energy dependent on burning fossil fuels. This is the dead end of modern liberalism. Leftists started by hating their class, moved on to hating their nation and their race. And now, they have quite logically arrived at the point of hating their own species. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is most honest and consistent cohort of this misanthropic mob.
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In an interview with FoxNews.com, Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus argued that man's natural ingenuity will lead to new technologies that will lessen any impact mankind has had on the planet's environment. As the Copenhagen Climate conference comes to a conclusion amidst riots by demonstrators and scrambling by policymakers, Czech President Vaclav Klaus has a message for the world: Global warming is a "new religion," not a science. As the Copenhagen climate conference drew to a close Friday, Czech President Vaclav Klaus, long a global warming skeptic, had a message for the world: do not dictate to humanity how to live based on an "irrational ideology," which he sees as the product of political correctness.
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In 2008, some 342,000 people identified themselves as Wiccans, up from 134,000 in 2001 and up significantly from 8,000 in 1990, said Barry Kosmin, a sociology professor at Trinity College, and the lead researcher of one of the largest surveys on religion in the U.S., the American Religious Identification Survey. But the number of Wiccans remains relatively small to the U.S. population, less than 0.3 percent, according to the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life.
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There really is nothing new under the sun. In a recent Yahoo News article, straightforwardly entitled "Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids," human beings are told-again, that we are the cause of all the earth's woes. Everything would be better, the article declares, if we would just have fewer children. Two hundred years ago, a British vicar named Thomas Malthus said something remarkably similar. In 1798, Rev. Malthus did some unsophisticated math, and surmised with horror that, if growth remained unchecked, the human race would be out of food by the year 1890. He was so certain of this that he decided that it was of the utmost importance to reduce human population, even by killing or allowing people to die to make room for the rest of us.
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"When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years. "The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels." The slide has since disappeared from the show, Revkin wrote. This was not happenstance. Pielke called Gore on his assertions. The link between manmade activity and natural disasters has not been established.
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The Theory of Evolution is not a scientific law or a law of biology. A scientific law must be 100% correct. Failure to meet only one challenge proves the law is wrong. This web page will prove that the Theory of Evolution fails many challenges, not simply one. The Theory of Evolution will never become a law of science because it is wrought with errors. This is why it is called a theory, instead of a law... Life did not start with a bolt of lightning striking a pond of water as claimed by evolutionists. That is pure childish fantasy. Evolution is simply a myth....
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The interest of Catholics - religious sisters and brothers, priests and laymen - in what is called "eco-spirituality" is a curious phenomenon. What has turned devotees of God's Mother into worshippers of the Earth Mother? How did some Catholics go from adoring the Eucharist, the Body of Christ, to reverencing the universe as the Body of God? How did confessors of the transcendent but ever present Trinity become promoters of an immanent, "panentheistic" deity? In short, what turned educated, observant Catholics into bargain-basement Buddhists? One may, of course, chalk it all up to the mystery of infidelity, or to the spirit of novelty, the "itching ears" of those who "turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths." Such explanations are sound, as far as they go; but they do not go very far. For often (though not always) men gravitate toward errors on account of an incomplete comprehension of the truth. And they fail to comprehend the fullness of truth because the truth is not presented to them in its fullness.
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There seems to be an unwritten assumption among environmentalists - and among the media - that any influence humans have on nature is, by definition, bad. I even see it in scientific papers written by climate researchers. For instance, if we can measure some minute amount of a trace gas in the atmosphere at the South Pole, well removed from its human source, we are astonished at the far-reaching effects of mankind's "pollution." But if nature was left undisturbed, would it be any happier and more peaceful? Would the carnivores stop eating those poor, defenseless herbivores, as well as each other? Would fish and other kinds of sea life stop infringing on the rights of others by feasting on them? Would there be no more droughts, hurricanes, floods, heat waves, tornadoes, or glaciers flowing toward the sea?
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Global warming is a natural process, not likely the result of human activities, argued more than 100 internationally prominent environmental scientists in papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, which concluded here today. The conference, organized by the Heartland Institute, sought to refute the contention promoted by Al Gore and the U.N. that there is an "established scientific consensus" that human beings are causing the earth to warm catastrophically. The event attracted more than 500 people, including scientists, economists, policy experts and members of the public from around the world.
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The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the past year: snow in Johannesburg last June and in Baghdad in January, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance after a record retreat last summer, paralyzing blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the globe's average temperature. It is no wonder that some scientists, opinion writers, political operatives and other people who challenge warnings about dangerous human-caused global warming have jumped on this as a teachable moment. "Earth's 'Fever' Breaks: Global COOLING Currently Under Way," read a blog post and news release on Wednesday from Marc Morano, the communications director for the Republican minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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As part of a 16-week sabbatical experience, 19 people from at least 11 countries traveled from Chicago last week to White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at St. Mary-of-the-Woods to plunge into eco-spirituality with the Sisters of Providence. Participants in the Hesburgh Sabbatical Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago spent four days in this community building and bonding experience that includes classroom and prayer experiences and hands-on work in the vegetable gardens, water garden, nature trail, with the alpacas, in the greenhouse and with the fiber program.
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In one hand the statue holds a globe, while the other clutches a scythe. She is known as Santa Muerte, Holy Death or Saint Death, but the people devoted to this religious icon are praying for a better life. They visit her at this storefront spiritual shop to ask for favors or seek protection, laying offerings of money, cigars and sweets at her bony feet. Eduardo Ornelas, a spiritual adviser and owner of the Botanica San Miguel Arcangel, said he tells them the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize Santa Muerte. Even so, for many in the Mexican community she has emerged as representing a dark, less-traveled path ultimately connected to God. "People ask her for many things. Some want to be cured from an illness or are looking for a job or want protection of their business or family. You make a contract with Santa Muerte and devote yourself to her," said Ornelas, 33. "She is not a saint, but people see her that way. They have faith in her and are apparently seeing results."
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Coverage of the Maine Pagan Pride Day 2007 was abruptly halted Saturday morning, August 18, in Portland. Coordinator Richard Vinton unilaterally decided to bar the Christian Civic League of Maine Record from the public event after an objection was raised by an adult male participant of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) Abrahadabra Oasis (Portland, ME) Satanic "Ritual of the Pentagram" Workshop. The daylong celebration of the occult began at 10:00 a.m., and the League arrived at the events shortly after the 11:00 a.m. pentagram ritual workshop began. The as yet unidentified man raised an objection to a Satanic group photo being taken, despite the event brochure clearly stating: "At MPPD [Maine Pagan Pride Day], there will be many photographs taken for personal use and by the press. Attendance at MPPD constitutes knowledge that you may purposefully or inadvertently have your photograph taken."
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The coordinator of exorcists of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Father Pedro Mendoza, criticized the skepticism of some priests about the existence of the Devil and said that although there are not many cases of possession, there are many who suffer from demonic attraction, which is the result of man's estrangement from God. At the conclusion of the 3rd National Congress of Exorcists, Father Mendoza warned that those who do not believe in the existence of the Devil forget that it is a dogma of the faith, "no matter how much they want to explain (these phenomenon) as psychological or something else."
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The Beltane Festival is held on April 30 each year by up to 12,000 pagans on Edinburgh's Calton Hill to celebrate the dawn of spring, according to the ancient Celtic calendar. Scotland's University of Edinburgh, after proposing a ban on Bibles and denying a Christian campus group the right to hold a conference on the immorality of homosexuality, has extended the welcome mat to the school's Pagan Society to hold its annual meeting on campus next month. The pagan conference will feature presentations on a variety of topics, including Magic and Witchcraft in the 21st Century, Pagan Parenting, Pagan Marriage, Pagan Symbolism and Practice and Ancient Greek magic. A workshop in tribal dance will be held at the university Student's Association.
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Romasonic Catholic Freemasons have awarded the controversial theologian Hans Kueng the "Kulturpreis Deutscher Freimaurer", "Culture Award of German Freemasons" according to www.Kath.net, a German website reporting on Catholic goings-on in Europe. The award is aptly named "Grandmaster of the Masons." In presenting the award to Kueng, Jens Oberheide reportedly called him a "free and brave thinker" and said Kueng spoke "straight from our Masonic hearts". While most Americans associate Freemasonry with go-carts and Fez's, charity hospitals, or social clubs, the history of Freemasonry at its highest levels is unquestionably hostile to Catholicism. It has long been rumored that in its quest to undermine Catholicism, Freemasons have been sent into the ranks of the Catholic Church's hierarchy since the 1930's.
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A Vatican official warned against idolizing the environment and losing sight of the dignity of the human person, in the wake of a conference on climate change and development. Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said this Friday, at the end of the dicastery's two-day conference. It brought together some 80 experts and focused on various aspects of climate change and the development of peoples. "Nature is for the human person and the human person is for God," Cardinal Martino said. "In considering the problems associated with climate change, one must look to the social doctrine of the Church," which "neither supports the absolutization of nature, nor the reduction of nature to a mere instrument."
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On the April 30, 2006 the "UFO? The Truth is Top Secret: From Area 51 to Planet X Conference ", organized by the "UFO Observer Cultural Association" was held in the Palazzo della Provincia of Pescara, Italy. During the conference I spoke about underground bases in the USA and dedicated the last fifteen minutes of my speech to a very short summary of my work during last five years that had gone in a new direction and is the leading topic of my future lectures. In the year 2000, I was working in Rome as an editor in the "Stargate" magazine and I wrote many articles about the Fatima Apparitions that took place in Portugal in 1917 and their famous Third Secret, as well as, other Vatican State-related mysteries. After the initial publication of these articles, I started to receive many e-mails from a person who identified himself as a Vatican insider. The mysterious man attempted to contact me anonymously and intermittently because he was interested in me and my research into Fatima...
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The general appreciation for taking care of the earth's resources, of being stewards of creation is being exploited to drive a political and even mythological system of environmentalism. The President of the Czech Republic spoke at the Cato Institute Friday calling "environmentalism" a "religion", and warning against the hysteria being generated by 'global warming' enthusiasts. "All of us are very much in favour of maximum environmental protection and protection of nature," said President Vaclav Klaus during a follow-up interview for a Cato podcast. "But it has nothing in common with environmentalism, which is ideological and practically attacking our freedom."
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Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was a Swiss theologian whose theological output gained him national attention, especially in Europe. He died on the 26th of June, 1988, two days before his elevation as a cardinal. Many from the theological scene hailed him as a theologian of great stature, however; some view his writings as questionable. Our Catholic moral theology has always taught us we must not judge the state of another's soul. But as faithful Catholics, we are called to make in a spirit of love, proper judgments of behavior and to expose dangerous views. Clearly, failure to condemn error indicates tacit agreement. Many of Balthasar's books and writings contain heresy.
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Cardinal George Pell is calling for caution regarding exaggerated claims of severe global warming and says he's "deeply skeptical about man-made catastrophic global warming, but still open to further evidence." In his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, the cardinal-archbishop of Sydney said people have been "subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us." He called those who make claims about ice caps melting and ocean levels rising spectacularly "doomsdayers" and "scaremongers."
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French anthropologist Rene Girard, one of the most influential intellectuals of contemporary culture, thinks that a Christian Renaissance lies ahead. In a book published recently in Italian, "Verità o fede debole. Dialogo su cristianesimo e relativismo" (Truth or Weak Faith: Dialogue on Christianity and Relativism), the anthropologist states that "we will live in a world that will seem and be as Christian as today it seems scientific." Girard, recently elected to be one of the 40 "immortals" of the French Academy, said: "I believe we are on the eve of a revolution in our culture that will go beyond any expectation, and that the world is heading toward a change in respect of which the Renaissance will seem like nothing."
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Pope Benedict XVI's chief exorcist, Rev. Gabriele Amorth, has called fictional wizard-in-training Harry Potter the "king of darkness, the devil." Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of the series, racked up 10 million in sales on the first day of its release in 2005. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of the series, racked up 10 million in sales on the first day of its release in 2005. Amorth made the statement about the star of the best-selling children's series by British author J. K. Rowling during an interview with Vatican Radio during the week.
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Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Stalin were possessed by the Devil, the Vatican's chief exorcist has claimed. Father Gabriele Amorth who is Pope Benedict XVI's 'caster out of demons' made his comments during an interview with Vatican Radio. Father Amorth said: "Of course the Devil exists and he can not only possess a single person but also groups and entire populations.
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THE Catholic Church has accepted as substantially true allegations that a Melbourne priest took part in satanic rituals in which a number of people were murdered. The Melbourne Archdiocese paid $33,000 to the man who made the allegations as compensation for the repeated sexual and physical abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of the priest. According to documents obtained by NEWS.com.au, the Archdiocese's independent sexual abuse investigator, barrister Peter O'Callaghan, QC, described the details of the ritualised murders and sexual abuse provided by the victim as "extraordinary". "...but I have no reason or justification for doubting his credibility," Mr O'Callaghan said in a letter to the victim's lawyers in October, 2000.
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Modern Masonry was founded in London in 1717 when four small Masonic lodges united to become the Grand Lodge of England. Subsequently, in 1736, the first Masonic Lodge in Europe, the Grand Orient Lodge in Paris, was founded. With the founding of the Grand Lodge of England, Freemasonry known also as the Craft or the Brotherhood, was no longer a guild of operative stone masons who had built Europe's great Catholic cathedrals. It had become a collection of intellectuals who out of pride valued reason over faith which in turn led to a descent into the spiritual darkness of self-deification.
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The Holy See is studying the answers given by local Churches in regard to New Age and is preparing a document of guidelines for bishops on the subject. The International Consultation on New Age, being held in Rome, was convoked by a commission of various Vatican bodies on "Sects and New Religious Movements," a Vatican press statement reports. Members of the commission include representatives of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, of the pontifical councils for Promoting Christian Unity, for Culture, and for Interreligious Dialogue.
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"...what was beginning to needle me - and it took some needling to break me out of my cuddle state - were comments (the Catholic nun) made about eternity. It ended up to be too much of a good thing. The bottom line was that the nun had everyone going finally to the Big Mansion in the Sky. In other words, the woman heading the retreat was a Unitarian-Universalist Society card-carrying member in the guise of a Roman Catholic nun. To boot, she was certainly a smoothy New Ager."
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Despite the scandal at Womenspace in the fall of 2001, when Brisbane's Courier-Mail exposed its role in promoting Dark Goddess celebrations, goddess chants, and, particularly, the radical feminist theology of Australia's leading feminist scholar, Sr. Wainwright, Womenspace continues its mission of promoting "women's spirituality." That the Australian Church today has been seriously compromised by Goddess worshipers can be seen on a number of fronts...
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In 1999, author James Perloff wrote the popular "Tornado in a Junkyard," which summarizes much of the evidence against evolution and is considered one of the most understandable (while still scientifically accurate) books on the subject. Recently, WND talked with Perloff about his new book, "The Case Against Darwin."
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"As darkness enveloped the Northwest Side, a boy put on a red rubber mask with horns and a terrible sneer and descended to the basement of St. Pascal Parish. He was the devil that night. Hundreds of people, many of them Roman Catholics, lined up for a $6 tour of Underworld 2003, a fundraiser for the church's elementary school. They walked in threes through the hot boiler room and past the buzzing electric chair, the glowing hazmat spill and the casket of a dismembered dummy. Holy upstairs, hellish downstairs. It's an example of the neat separation of sacred and profane that characterizes many Christians' attitudes toward Halloween."
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" few months after being appointed ordinary of Mexico City, Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera issued a pastoral letter Jan. 7, 1996 on the New Age movement "as a response to the concern so many of you have expressed to me, either directly or through your pastors." Addressing "pastors...religious, missionaries, spiritual directors and confessors, teachers and catechetical instructors, and all the lay faithful engaged in apostolates in the archdiocese," the primate of Mexico examines the origins and content of the New Age movement, the reasons for its rapid spread, its incompatibility with the Gospel, and the responsibility of all Catholics to counteract its influence." (As American becomes increasingly pagan in morality, the spiritual void is being filled by various New Age cults that all Christians need to be on guard against.)
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"For well over a century, liberal intellectuals have bullied the common man with anti-religious propaganda. At the heart of their argument is the claim that all spiritual beliefs are a product of social evolution. Our belief in God, the theory goes, grew out of a blind, instinctive impulse and expressed itself in crude forms of worship which developed at a remote point in man's past. This concept is shot through with obvious fallacies. Yet it remains a stock-in-trade argument imposed on students in secular schools, and (since the 1960s) on a growing number of Catholics."
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"We are in the presence of a powerful pagan/Gnostic theological agenda, claiming to be spanking new, objective and scientific, but as old as the hills. It is my belief that this trend in biblical studies is part of the setting in place of a pagan reconstruction of human culture for the planetary era."I close this lecture with a warning that comes from a scholar whose work is independent of my own. Johannes van Oort, Professor of church history and the history of dogma at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and world expert on Manichean Gnosticism, states a fact and gives a challenge: "Gnosis in one form or another is expected to become the main expression of secular religion in the new millennium. In order to equip the Church for this new age, the scientific study of Gnosticism is vital."
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The scandals besetting the Catholic Church "occurred in an era whose motto was "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." This axiom poisoned the Church as it did other institutions. It is worth noting who authored this maxim. It was the British writer and warlock Aleister Crowley, the self-named "Beast 666," whom Somerset Maugham described as the most vile man he has ever met.For the Catholic Church, a settlement of $85 million is a terrible price to pay for the Crowleyism that had crept into its seminaries and parsonages. But at least it has now put an end to this aberration." Siemon-Netto, a Prostestant, wonders if Protestant denominations will become further Crowleyized.
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The San Antonio Current for August 21-27, 2003 has an unsettling article describing the Lilith Fund, a 501c3 and so-called 'reproductive equity' group, and their efforts to train abortion assistants in workshops today. Lilith is a prominent figure in demonology and Jewish folklore. Is it demons and witches presiding over child sacrifices, or the 'right to choose', or both?
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"Patricia Baird-Windle, founder and executive director of Aware Woman Center for Choice, has been in the national media spotlight recently. A featured guest on Good Morning America and the subject of a Rolling Stone magazine article, she has gained her notoriety through being portrayed as the embattled owner of Brevard County, Florida's only abortion clinic. Rolling Stone portrayed Windle as a suffering saint and "one of the most persecuted women in America." Local pro-lifers were painted as a movement led "almost entirely by white men" who "fit the Son of Sam profile."1 Media coverage hasn't been exactly unbiased."
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"Where is Gnosticism in today's culture? You might bump into it in successful films and novels, such as Harry Potter, Star Wars and The Matrix, or face it in "religious" and "philosophical" movements, such as the New Age, the Raelian cult and Freemasonry."
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Father Gabriele Amorth warns that Harry Potter books attempt to make a false distinction between black and white magic, when in fact, the distinction "does not exist, because magic is always a turn to the devil." In spite of recent reports that a Vatican officer spoke approvingly of Harry Potter, CCI recommends they be avoided.
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The Vatican has released a long-awaited document on New Age ideology, putting Christians on guard against the "cultural currents" created by New Age theories. In a 100-page document, released by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for Interfaith Dialogue, was introduced to the media at a press conference in Rome on Monday, February 3, 2003.
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"Father Alfred Kunz presides over a wedding at his Wisconsin church. Three years later, someone is still haunted. The all-consuming rage at the popeyed old priest--the uncontainable hatred, day after freezing winter day. The wee-hours confrontation in a dark hallway outside the priest's office, where he'd slept like a pauper for the past 31 years. Suddenly, a savage death struggle. Then the killer plunged a razor-sharp blade into Father Alfred Kunz's neck, slicing a major artery below his jaw..."
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