Has Earth Day Become a Kind of Religion?

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Robe rt H. Nelson Has Earth Day become a kind of religion? Even as it adopts secular tary draft, the Court ruled that driving fewer miles, using less the exemption should be applied water, living in smaller houses, forms, environmentalism equally to those who believe in a having fewer children. Limiting borrows to a surprising Supreme Being and those “with human appetites, rather than sat- a sincere and meaningful belief isfying ever-growing demands, is degree from Jewish and which occupies in the life of its the environmental command. Christian history. possessor a place parallel to that As prominent an environmen- filled by the God” of religious be- talist as David Brower, who served n this Earth Day, Ameri- lievers. as executive director of the Sierra cans might want to Even as it adopts secular forms, Club for 18 years, has described consider how environ- environmentalism borrows to a human existence as a terrible Omentalism is becoming surprising degree from Jewish and “cancer” destroying God’s good a new form of religion. They also Christian history. Creation. Being environmentally might want to ask: Why is it OK to For example, it says in Deuter- “born again” was for Brower - and teach environmental religion in onomy that, for those who wor- many other environmentalists - public schools, while the teaching ship false idols, God “will send the only good answer to modern of Judaism, Christianity and other disease among you ... fever, infec- man’s environmental corruption traditional religions is not consti- tions, plague and war.... (and) will and sinfulness. tutionally permitted? blight your crops.” In 2010, Al Gore The issue posed by environ- Environmentalism has, indeed, AP/Jon h MiNCHIllo similarly foresaw environmental mentalism today for those who become an article of religious Grace Potter of the group “Grace Potter and the Nocturnals” performed sinners headed toward calamity faith. As Joel Garreau, a former after the Christie’s Green Auction for the “Bid to Save the Earth” benefit on a biblical scale, facing rising believe in the separation of church Washington Post editor, wrote in recently in New York. International collectors, philanthropists, celebrities, seas, “stronger and more destruc- and state is the following: Does 2010, “faith-based environmen- and environmentalists convened at Rockefeller Center for the third annual tive” hurricanes and droughts it make sense constitutionally talism increasingly sports saints, auction to support organizations dedicated to water conservation efforts “getting longer and deeper.” to prohibit the teaching and em- sins, prophets, predictions, here- around the world. Has such reverence for environmentalism made it a virtual In contemporary environmen- brace of Judaism and Protestant- tics, sacraments and rituals.” religion? talism, the largest religious debts ism in official public settings, Some argue that a religion must are owed to Calvinism. It was John while permitting the government have a God, disqualifying envi- its devout belief system and the teristic of our time that “the most Calvin who wrote that God has establishment – as taught in the ronmentalism. Yet, as the great fervor of its adherents – clearly important religious movements “revealed himself and daily dis- public schools – of this new secu- American psychologist and phi- would include today’s environ- are developing outside of (official) closes himself in the whole work- larized Protestantism: the religion losopher William James observed mentalism. religion.” manship of the universe.” For of green, the religion of Earth Day. in his 1902 classic, “The Varieties Paul Tillich, the greatest Ameri- The U.S. Supreme Court en- both Calvin and environmental- of Religious Experience,” it is not can theologian of the 20th cen- dorsed such an understanding of ism, the natural world is the art- Robert H. Nelson is a professor of environmen- necessary to “positively assume tury, similarly defined religion as religion in the 1960s. In a 1965 de- work of God, the Creation. tal policy at the University of Maryland and a a God” in order to have a religion. a comprehensive belief system cision in the case known as Unit- Man’s role is to conserve God’s senior fellow with The Independent Institute. James insisted that “godless or that seeks to answer questions of ed States v. Seeger, involving the work. Thus, the rituals of envi- He is the author of “The New Holy Wars: Eco- quasi-godless creeds” also can “ultimate concern” to human ex- requirements for a conscientious ronmentalism celebrate reduced nomic Religion versus Environmental Religion in qualify as religions, which – given istence. For Tillich, it was charac- objector exemption from the mili- consumption - lowering the heat, Contemporary America.”

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(5:45) Movie ›› (5:45) Movie ›› Last Holiday (2006, Comedy) Queen Latifah, Gérard Depardieu, Movie ››› Hitch (2005, Romance-Comedy) Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James. A smooth-talker (10:35) Movie ››› Hitch (2005) Will Smith. A smooth-talker ity. He also balanced the WTBS P Bad All By Myself (2009) Three footloose men deal with fatherhood. Å Last Holiday Å WTBS P LL Cool J. A terminally ill woman lives it up on vacation. Å helps a shy accountant woo an heiress. Å helps a shy accountant woo an heiress. Å federal budget. No surprise AMC ± (11:04) Movie ›› Meet Joe Black (1998) Brad Pitt. The Grim Reaper assumes the form of a recently deceased man. Movie ›› Legends of the Fall (1994) Brad Pitt. The forces of love and war slowly destroy a Montana family. ‘R’ AMC ± Movie ›› Sahara (2005) Matthew McConaughey. Adventurers search for a Confederate ship in Africa. ‘PG-13’ Å The Killing “Ghosts of the Past” (N) Mad Men “Far Away Places” (N) Å (11:04) The Killing ’ Å ENCORE (340) (12:15) Movie ››› Salt (2010, Action) Angelina Jolie. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Movie ›› Father of the Bride Part II (1995) Steve Martin. ’ ‘PG’ Å (3:50) Movie ››› Excalibur (1981, Adventure) Nicol Williamson. ’ ‘R’ Å ENCORE (340) (6:15) Movie ›› Bad Girls (1994, Western) Madeleine Stowe. ’ ‘R’ Å Movie ››› Salt (2010) Angelina Jolie. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å (9:45) Movie ›› Tango & Cash (1989) Sylvester Stallone. ’ ‘R’ Å Knockaround there. He hadn’t had a “real” HBO (300) Legend-Grdians Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å Movie ›› Charlie St. Cloud (2010) Zac Efron. ‘PG-13’ (3:15) Movie ›› The Losers (2010) Jeffrey Dean Morgan. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å (5:10) Movie Water for Elephants Å HBO (300) (5:10) Movie Water for Elephants Å (7:10) Movie › Your Highness (2011, Comedy) Danny McBride. ’ ‘R’ Å Game of Thrones “Garden of Bones” Veep ’ Å Girls (N) ’ Å Game of Thrones “Garden of Bones” job before the White House MAX (310) (11:50) Movie ››› Midnight Run (1988) Robert De Niro. ’ ‘R’ Å Movie ››› Death Becomes Her (1992) Meryl Streep. (3:45) Movie ›› Sanctum (2011, Action) Richard Roxburgh. ’ ‘R’ Å (5:35) Movie Alien MAX (310) (5:35) Movie ›››› Alien (1979) Tom Skerritt. ‘R’ Å (7:35) Movie ››› The Tree of Life (2011, Drama) Brad Pitt, Sean Penn. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Movie ››› X-Men: First Class (2011) James McAvoy. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å – which means he was su- SHO (320) Boxing Abner Mares vs. Eric Morel. (1:15) Movie ›› Phenomenon (1996, Drama) John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick. ’ ‘PG’ Movie ›› Remember Me (2010) Robert Pattinson. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å 180 Degrees SHO (320) (5:30) Movie 180 Degrees South ‘NR’ The Borgias “Paolo” ’ Å The Big C Å Nurse Jackie ’ Nurse Jackie (N) The Big C (N) ’ The Borgias (N) ’ Å Nurse Jackie ’ The Big C Å premely qualified. STARZ! (360) (11:45) Magic City ’ Å (12:50) Movie ››› Midnight in Paris (2011) ’ ‘PG-13’ (2:35) Movie › The Smurfs (2011, Comedy) Hank Azaria. ’ ‘PG’ Å Movie ›› Bad Teacher (2011) Cameron Diaz. ‘R’ Å STARZ! (360) (6:10) Movie ›› Colombiana (2011, Action) Zoe Saldana. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Magic City “Castles Made of Sand” Movie ››› Midnight in Paris (2011) Owen Wilson. Å (10:40) Movie ›› The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010) ‘PG’ (11:30) Movie › Triggermen (2002) (1:10) Movie ›› The Trial of Billy Jack (1974, Drama) Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor. Premiere. ‘PG’ Å Movie Infamy (2005, Documentary) ’ ‘R’ Å Burly Q (5:45) Movie ›› Behind the Burly Q (2010) ’ ‘NR’ Å Movie Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon (2011) ’ Movie ›› Windtalkers (2002, War) Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach. ’ ‘R’ Å (11:15) Movie Hellraiser: Hellworld ‘R’ TMC (330) TMC (330) Daniel Akst is a columnist for Newsday.