I post below my letter to Richard Cizit, who is with the
Evangelical Environmental Network . They want to help out with saving the environment from Bush and his evil cronies. I vote for some restraint if you should be so kind to respond to this diary, as I have invited them over to read the comments if there should be any.
I am a bit unkind myself but that is my fight, and I take responsibility for it. Regarding Mr. Cizit, everyone must form their own opinion regarding religion and those who condemn others not of their sect.
To me, I had to say what I said: it is my religion, my prostelizing.
That said, we need to be, we MUST be, grateful for anyone who will help us save Mother Earth from Gluttonous mankind, despite their unkind comments toward liberals. We should say our piece, bite our tongues, and accept their help.
My letter to the EEN below.
Hello to EEN,
I write you today in regards to the NY Times article, link
here . If Mr. Richard Cizik should read this, that would be great, but any good set of eyes will do.
I have respect for his wisdom in regards to the need to conserve Mother Earth. Afer all, Evangelicals have children too that they love and want to have a future. What took you so long?
But that is about as much credit I will give EEN, considering Mr. Cizit's contemptible, outrageous comments about liberals, who he lumps together as Godless and who "keep kooky religious company." If chuch-speak, he said that those who would save Mother Earth are going to hell and earth-raping Republicans who go to church and give the church money are going to heaven. And while I'm at it, I'll take credit for Kyoto after it finally passed, over extreme objections from religious conservatives.
So, Mr. Cizik, while coming out of the closet on environmentalism, if you will, why can't you just be good-hearted and try to be inclusive for one damn minute while being interviewed about your newfound environmentalism, of which apparently you're ashamed to even call environmentalism because of your judgemental, uninformed opinion of liberals, of which Jesus was one, and of whom was himself trying to protect, from radical religious types?
And do you think Jesus would throw out generalities and, furthermore, judge people he doesn't even know? He even talked publicly against judging people he knew, much less toward those he doesn't even know. (But it's ok for YOU to judge because you forgive us right, like you are better than Jesus, who was too humble to judge the poor and destitute?)
I have gotten over some of my anger since the Times Q and A; I had actually been speaking highly of evangelicals and their wisdom regarding the need to protect our world from corrupt, greedy humans. But then the Q and A and here I am.
Folks, liberal environmentalists have been slaving over this issue for decades, and then EEN judges them as kooky. I don't recall you calling David Koresh kooky? Maybe you did. Sir, those are kooks, radical religious kooks, albeit the farthest radical wing of kooks.
I have said my piece. If you want to conserve planet earth, good, but you will look like the worst idiots ever if you try to claim responsibility for Kyoto, or any other major environmental achievement, all of which was orchestrated by organized, activist environmentalists, most of whom have mainstream religious views you _ ...i won't say it.
I have done some work for the environmental movement, but not like the real environmentalists, God bless them. They deserve your blessings, not your contempt, sir.
God bless us all,
The Gnostic
P.S. I intend to publish this article at the gracious Kos Klan blog site. Say oh yeah!, YEAH!... Just go to http://www.dailykos.com/user/The%20Gnostic and then this diary will be at the top entitled...hmmm. "Environmentalists and Evangelicals Sitting in a Tree."
And, NOW, my spiel:
The real, original Christians, while outlawed since 325 AD, are nothing like what came after. Much cooler dudes and chicks than what came after the Council of Nicea.
Jesus, a Gnostic, was/is God (ironically you are right on that count) being a part of the atomic plane. As he said: `we are all children of God.'
He also declared, "Destroy this church (temple)" and spoke of the real church, in the "body", including, yes, "his body".
Sir, the Gnostics, the original Christians time will come again.
Best Regards,
The Gnostic
The South, USA