Monday, August 1, 2016

Book Review: How the Catholic Pope and Other Leaders Are Uniting the World’s Religions Through Environmentalism

(short) Book Review: A book that may be of some interest....
(Review --Excerpts)

A Christian Perspective on the Environment:
How the Catholic Pope and Other Leaders
Are Uniting the World’s Religions
Through Environmentalism
by Roger Oakland
18 pages Lighthouse Trails Booklet Tract

Over the past 35 years, some have been suggesting that we should look to spiritual solutions for motivation and a method to resolve the problems that the naturalistic worldview has created. For example, Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual leader who has held weekly meditation meetings at the United Nations headquarters in New York since 1970 has stated:


Science and spirituality must be united. They need each other. Without the one, the other is incomplete, almost meaningless. Together they are not only supremely complete but also divinely meaningful.
 In a chapter of his book titled “Environmentalism of the Spirit,” Gore called for a “new ecological awareness” and the consideration of a “new faith in the future.” He suggested it was imperative to call for a “spiritual response” to the global environmental problems we are facing. He challenged readers to consider “evolution” as the basis of an ecumenical faith that he suggested could unite
science and religion as a means of saving our planet from ecological disaster.
Climatic change was a major topic of discussion according to the first-hand testimony of Carl Teichrib at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City regarding the relationship of the environment to the coming one-world religion based on the common belief of evolution. One thing that was evident throughout the conference is the belief that evolution is the uniting factor and the only hope for mankind. In other words, it is an evolutionary imperative for man to recognize the dangers facing the planet and take the next step towards godhood or suffer the consequences.

Karenna Gore, the Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and daughter to Al Gore, was the Climate Plenary moderator. Her father . . . sent a special video message to those in attendance, reminding us that Pope Francis had earlier called on global action to “solve the climate crisis.

....it would be important to read the following statement taken from an article titled “Vatican Official Calls for Greater International Effort to Combat Climate Change”:

Addressing the World Health Organization’s annual World Health Assembly, a Vatican official welcomed the call for universal health coverage in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Msgr. Jean-Marie Mupendawatu, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, also called for a greater international effort to combat climate change for the sake of global health.


But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you,
let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:8