Unfortunately, this no longer surprises me:
April 27 (Bloomberg) — Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won’t find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s book about global warming.
Not only is the Bible, “The” Truth, being replaced with a “truth” that is dubious at best, the name of the hotel says it all. Gaia is the pagan name for “Mother Earth”. Quoted from Wikipedia:
Many Neopagans actively worship Gaia. Beliefs regarding Gaia vary, ranging from the common Wiccan belief that Gaia is the Earth (or in some cases the spiritual embodiment of the earth, or the Goddess of the Earth), to the broader Neopagan belief that Gaia is the goddess of all creation, a Mother Goddess from which all other gods spring. Gaia is sometimes thought to embody the planets and the Earth, and sometimes thought to embody the entire universe. Worship of Gaia is varied, ranging from prostration to druidic ritual.
And we all know who the Wiccans are.
Remind me not to stay in this hotel.
In a recent Forbes Magazine piece, Steve Forbes calls out the latest environmental movement spearheaded by Al Gore for exactly what it is:
As I said in our 75th anniversary issue (15 years ago, 1992), “We are also about to witness a great spiritual revival. One impetus: aging baby boomers looking for greater meaning in their lives. … This revival won’t be entirely religious. Senator Gore’s bestselling book [ Earth in the Balance] touts environmentalism less as a series of problems to be practically solved than as something spiritual, transcendental: Economies are expanding at the expense of pillaging Mother Earth, ultimately threatening life itself.”
Today the issue of global warming has indeed reached religious proportions. Even though the science determining whether carbon dioxide is fundamentally changing weather patterns is, at best, mixed, our political and cultural elite say it is so. They angrily turn on anyone who dares question the new orthodoxy with a ferocity that would do Cotton Mather and the perpetrators of the Salem witch trials proud.
Once again, Al is swimming in dangerous waters. Interesting.
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