Posted on 09/26/2014 8:27:04 AM PDT by Steelfish
CLIMATE WORSHIP AT THE CATHEDRAL At St. John the Divine, the climate never changes.
By Mark Tooley – 9.26.14
Hundreds of thousands marched in New York recently for climate “justice” in “The People’s Climate March,” convinced that human industry is heating the earth to apocalyptic levels.
Naturally there was a religious auxiliary to the Global Warming jamboree in the form of the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, among others. And of course it included earth-friendly worship at the flamboyant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, whose theologically provocative services some critics have labeled earth worship.
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Those critics would have found vindication at the cathedral on Sunday, where “The Religions of the Earth Multi-faith Service” paid homage to Mother Earth by asking worshippers to pile stones on the altar to confirm their climate commitment. Over a thousand concerned religious activists filled the pews, praying for and at times seemingly to the earth, beneath two giant sculptures of feathered phoenixes that soared overhead in the huge gothic worship space.
Urging on the stone bearers was Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota spiritual leader and 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle. He explained that rocks were first in the Great Spirit’s creation, worriedly adding, “Spirit Mother is sick, and has a fever.”
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Lived here most of the time, south of Houston, since 1973. Weather/climate still the same as it was in 1973. Summers = Hot. Fall, Winter, Spring = Mild and Lovely. we get a good heavy snowfall about once every 15 years.
I have been keeping the weather report from the Houston Chronicle all year and there have been NO record HIGHS! Zero! Plus the temp records in Houston only go back to 1890. What was it like BEFORE 1890? LOL
Not MSLC. Missouri Synod Lutheran, we are still conservative and we do not condone gay mariage or Social Justice. Plus Wisconsin Synod of Lutheran Church is even more conservative than we are. Our church is actually more conservative than I would like but because of MSLC stance on Social Justice and other issues I stay with our synod.
We did not join, nor will we ever join, the World Council of Churches. LCMS Lutheran Church Missouri Synod will never join that group!!!!!!!
My son’s church won’t join it either. He is with Calvary Chapel Churches.
I was walking around Morningside Heights recently after an appointment nearby.
Had heard of St. John the Divine, but didn’t know much about it, so wanted to see it. I didn’t know it was Episcopalian until I arrived. All I can say is - it was exactly as expected. Gay pride flags flying, and 80% of the pews had been removed to make way for some kind of giant dragon sculpture, produced by a Chinese artist, taking up the entire nave.
If it wasn’t for the inherited wealth (mainly land) that some Episcopalian churches sit on, this organization would have already collapsed and disappeared.
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If you belong to any mainline church you are contributing to the National Council of Churches which is a wing of the World Council. YOUR MONEY PAYS THEIR BILLS.
When I last looked, that includes Methodist, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Episcopal, the list goes on and on...
GET OUT. NOW! Find an independent Bible-teaching church.
Relationship with other Lutheran bodies
Maintaining its position as a confessional church body emphasizing the importance of full agreement in the teachings of the Bible, the LCMS is not associated with ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals, the World Council of Churches or the Lutheran World Federation. It is, however, a member of the International Lutheran Council, made up of over 30 Lutheran churches worldwide that support the confessional doctrines of the Bible and the Book of Concord. At the 2007 convention, the delegates voted to establish altar and pulpit fellowship with the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC).
Although its strongly conservative views on theology and ethics might seem to make the LCMS politically compatible with Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in the U.S., the LCMS largely eschews political activity, partly out of concerns to keep the denomination untainted with potential heresies and also because of its strict understanding of the Lutheran distinction between the Two Kingdoms (see above), which repudiates the primarily Calvinist presuppositions about the totalizing rule of God that informs much, if not most, of U.S. evangelical understanding of politics and Christianity. However, both LCMS and Evangelicals share the common belief that life begins and should be protected by law since conception.
Everyone I know at our church is Conservative.
Solar Powered! crashes a lot....
” Find an independent Bible-teaching church”
They all think they are preaching Scripture. The noted British writer Hillaire Belloc in his book the “The Great Heresies” wrote that unlike other heresies, Protestantism “spawned a cluster of heresies,” and now we are seeing its effect such as a theology that embraces gay marriage among clergy including bishops, and now pagan rituals. The rot has more than set in, its now complete.
Climate change is very real. For example, the average climate of the northern hemisphere is so cold as to cause the ground to be buried under a thousand feet of ice. The cycle of glacier on/glacier off takes place every several hundred thousand years and can be clearly seen in many ways. Even as the science is settled that glaciation has taken place, the causes are still undergoing vigorous debate.
With respect to the idea that humans are causing harmful changes to the climate at this very moment, I am waiting for some peer-reviewed papers that propose what the optimum climate is for our biosphere. The first question that would naturally flow would be where is our current climate and trend in relation to this finding.
Strangely, nobody seems interested in this vital comparison. Not so strangely, the solutions that are frequently demanded in the most urgent voice, all converge on a socialist worldview: statism, bigger government, higher taxes, less personal liberty. That bigger picture tells me all that I need to know about “climate science”.
As a former Episcopalian who has been to St. John the Divine, let me state unequivocally, that cathedral is a synagogue of Satan. Don’t go there. A spirit of oppression hangs over it like a fetid body bag.
Future generations will laugh at our elites for their mad ideas about bike lanes altering the climate.
Yet it’s true, if we can get enough people riding bikes, the average temperature of the earth will fall 0.0000000-00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000-
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 degrees.
Climate justice, one sore ass at a time.
That could be one extra zero there, pedal on lefties.
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