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From News Busters:

In a bizarre wrap-up to the 2 p.m. EDT hour of CNN “Newsroom” Thursday, anchor T.J. Holmes confessed his “eco-sins” to the audience. Commemorating the eve of “Earth Day,” Holmes admitted to his “green” faults which included driving an SUV by himself to work daily, blasting the heat in his house during winter, and using “less efficient” incandescent bulbs for lighting.

“These are my eco-sins. I’m confessing them to you because tomorrow is Earth Day,” Holmes announced to the audience…

There is a thing we Catholics do from time to time at Mass – in unison, we say:

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault. In my thoughts and in my words; in what I have done and what I have failed to do. And I ask Blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angles and saints and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord, Our God.

Holmes has shown something here – that Environmentalism is a church (yes, a sort of anti-Church, if you will)…it has its sacraments (recycling) and its holy days (Earth Day). It has its deity (Mother Earth) and its priests (Al Gore). And you can be excommunicated from this church if you wantonly sin by driving an SUV or failing to recycle.

This is creepy on a lot of levels – first off all by putting a thing (the earth, or the environment) above both God and man. Secondly, by public confession of individual sins – something very much out of the communist playbook where if you strayed from the party line you were required to recant in public.

Suffice it to say you cannot sin except by violating some command of God – and driving an SUV, last I checked, was not one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I doubt that any priest would even so much as make you do ten Ave Maria’s over it. The earth is not an entity – there is no Earth Mother. The world, all we see around us, is a subordinate creation which only gains value in relation to what we, the people of the world, make of it. To start down the road of Mr. Holmes is to head straight in to paganism – and while in ancient times there was a healthy, humane paganism, there was also paganism with human sacrifice…and in a large sense, that is just what the priests of environmentalism want: human sacrifice to the Earth Mother. Human lives and happiness are to be sacrificed allegedly to save the earth…to propagate the gods of land, air, water and fire in hopes that they will allow us to continue to live.

Thanks, but no thanks. I happen to worship God, not a small part of God’s creation. And I do wish that people would start to think about what they are doing before they go on and do it.