Posted on 01/18/2023 4:36:29 AM PST by GreaterSwiss
My temple is joining a climate change organization. How do I best register my disagreement with this? It seems to be partnered with the UN. My hunch is it’s about the offsets (💸💸💸)
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Join a different Temple.
The organization is called “Hazon”
Just my 2 cents' worth...
My sincere condolences.
How do I best register my disagreement with this?
Frankly, I don't know how best to go about that!
Churches and temples probably belong to lots of half-assed organizations that a true conservative would find questionable, ridiculous, or downright objectionable. One doesn't want to be the "Karen" who always insists that everything be exactly according to her preferences.
Maybe the first step should be to find out who suggested/decided this in the first place.
It might have been a single, contentious, and irascible individual - and everyone else simply "went along" with him just to avoid trouble.
After you've determined "who's to blame," you can decide whether you want to approach that one individual or clique - or if it would be more effective to first seek out allies in your congregation.
But: By all means do something! Or next week, you'll find that your temple is hosting "Drag Queen Kiddie Shows."
Best of luck!
Regards,
Stands to reason, Climate Change is a religion after all.
-fJRoberts-
Leave. You cannot change the broken people in charge.
Or just laugh to yourself and ignore it.
But I’d be happier worshipping without all that crap.
Be honest and tell them what you think, and leave if necessary.
WHAT? Didn’t anyone hear the news? John kerry pronounced “it’s too late”! Don’t know about you but I’m paying attention to this legend among men and going to party like it’s 1999! Woo hoo! No more worrying folks...we ALL gonna die! I’m going to need a bigger truck that can really sucks down the gas. You know, gots to do my part.
File under “Holding God hostage to secular prejudice”
We wield God’s power by doing God’s work.
Having studied Climate Change professionally for more than 40 years, if people are honest, they will recognize that Climate Change is a gift from G-d, and totally necessary for life on earth. In fact, without Climate change, life would cease to exist. Carbon Dioxide is a miracle chemical that is incredibly efficient. It is a waste byproduct of our life and is a gift to plant life, which in turn, feeds us with its waste product of oxygen and other life saving chemicals. Oil and Gas production has saved the lives of billions of people through the last century, and has improved the quality of life worldwide. On the other hand, the wastes of so-called ‘renewables’ has created an environmental nightmare. Wind turbine blades (windmills), spent solar panels, and expired batteries are littering the earth with hazardous materials which might be impossible to get rid of. So, I hope you have figured out that your Temple folks might just be a little light on facts.
Tell them you’re going to do your part to save energy by staying home — and never darken the door of that place again.
They use it to justify an immoral agenda. So to embrace it is immoral.
“Willful ignorance of subversion and conspiracy is just as complicit as being directly involved in the subversion and conspiracy.”
Point out the China burns 8 times as much coal as the US and emits twice as much as the US, and plans to increase their use of coal. So all the progress your group makes is wasted energy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/business/energy-environment/china-coal-natural-gas.html
Aside from the fact the whole environmental agenda is based on lies and is nothing but a con to launder money and cull human lives. They hide that every environmental action has created an even worse environmental issue elsewhere. They know, but they don’t care because that is not really their goal. Their true immoral goal is far more nefarious. And anyone complicit with their agenda is also guilty of their same immoral goals.
I wouldn’t lose any sleep over this. Green weenies have been composing these little tip sheets ever since Earth Day 1070 about how to save the world by any number of meaningless gestures. Religious leaders of all stripe seem especially vulnerable to emotional appeals and superficial “solutions” that allow them to feel virtuous.
1970. Sorry.
The only and proper thing to do is find another synagogue, but, at the minimum, drop any financial pledge you might have made in terms of membership. The Hazon group is LGBT Leftist, and the ego of the Brit that started it is amazing, as he argued that a word in Hebrew was a trademark that other groups could not use.
Thus two wholly antithetical visions of society and politics, and the Lefty wants to own the word "vision." This is the now standard footprint of the Left worldwide.
Read and note the photo: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-03-09/ty-article/u-s-environmental-org-hazon-wants-israeli-right-wing-group-to-stop-using-its-name/0000017f-e2a5-df7c-a5ff-e2ff9c820000
Ask who made the decision and if it was approved by the congregation. It sounds as though mother Earth worship will be replacing God. Write Ichabod over the door, dust your feet off and find a new place of worship.
All the local churches in my area who have went liberal are in the their death throes.
You make a great argument.
Climate change isn’t real, though.
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