"Tithing to the Church of Green

Published 01 March 2003

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If you donate to Greens you’re aiding terrorists.

The latest taxpayer financed junk TV commercials tell us how driving SUVs supports terrorists.  Since sport utility vehicles gurgle more gas than rickshaws and pedicabs we’re forced to buy more oil from Arab countries, and some of that money funds Islamist terrorists.  So it’s Donny and Debbie Driver’s gasoline money and not a penny of the billions in foreign aid our Politicos send to Muslim rulers that actually ends up in al Quida’s treasury.  By this logic, if you give money to save the spotted snot-nosed gecko from extinction some of that cash goes to enviro-terrorist groups like Earth Liberation Front whose members perform public service activities like blowing up research labs and fire bombing SUVs.

But Greens are finding religion.  If you’ve been holding to the orthodox belief that “religion” is a term applied only metaphorically to Green Environmentalism, you’re ripe for conversion.  Your epiphany is heralded by a procession of articles from CNSNews.com.  The President’s vision of Faith Based Initiative bears a heavenly host of cash and the Greenies are grabbing for their share of manna.

The purpose of the faith based brainlesschild, of course, is to channel large wads of legal tender from the pockets of those who earned it into the clammy hands of religious groups who know better than you how to spend it.  Quoting from CNSNews,  “The White House is defending a plan to expand its Faith Based Initiative in order to fund religious groups dedicated to environmental causes like global warming.”

Yes, global warming is an article of faith for many.  So forget reality.  Never mind the Little Ice Age that turned the Northern Hemisphere into one big frozen fish stick between 1150 and 1460.  Before then, England had vineyards and a wine industry.  After then, London’s Thames River turned into an ice rink.  Can’t you just imagine the era’s White Environmentalists raping taxpayers to stop the Global Freezing that was surely caused by evil human actions?  History says that today’s Global Warming is nothing more than long-term planetary weather patterns cycling back around to the Eleventh Century conditions that people considered normal: warmer winters, longer growing seasons, fine English table wines.

But never mind all that.  Federal flunkies are giddy over giving the Greens our greenbacks.  Deputy director David Kuo of the mouthful White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives thinks it’s a “great” idea for the Environmental Protection Agency to shovel cash at “groups that advocate green causes.”  And Jerry Lawson, director of EPA’s Energy Star program, is equally eager to pass our tax money on to anyone in the piety business “interested in the environment”  (i.e., Green Enviros.)  Speaking of which, Worldwatch director of research Gary Gardner preaches,  “There is a role for the government to bring religious groups and environmental groups together.”

(Hint: When every environmental “solution” involves coercion, you know that saving the planet is just another smokescreen for power grabbing.)

Any wonder that Gang Green is suddenly discovering religion, much as felons discover religion just before their parole hearings?  Another quote from the CNSNews articles:  “Douglas Grace of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment said the merging of religion and environmental causes is only in its infancy.”  Translation: Greengos want to use your church for their tax money laundering operations.  When your preacher preaches against our “embarrassing” consumption he qualifies for EPA faith based bucks which aid the Enviro Religion.  Why use ushers when IRS agents, with their intimidating threats of fines and imprisonment, will eagerly pass the collection plate for them?

The Greenie Weenies want to totally run your life.  Every dollar that’s forcibly evicted from your pocket is a dollar you can’t use for your own sustainable development, such as food, clothing, shelter, educating your young or being able to afford dolphin-safe tuna for your tuna helper.  Then, once ELF firebombs your SUV, you’ll be packed into an allegedly environmentally friendly streetcar where you can commune in fellowship with the body odors of fellow sinners.  Such is the vision of humanity from the Church of Green.

Using the government’s taxing power to establish a religion is an open, cynical, in your face snubbing of the Bill of Rights.  They should at least have the decency to call the Faith Based Environmental Initiative what it is - a Religion Tax.

Live and let live Libertarians would normally not dis someone’s religion.  But the Green Grab for pelf and power deserves every mock and knock they get.

- by Garry Reed