The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday
Posted By: Northcross, 4/22/2023 8:13:44 PM
Earth Day is upon us—that forlorn little non-holiday that some years sandwiches itself between Easter and Passover, or other years trails in the wake of those “real” holidays. (snip) For the two of us environmentalists—one of us nominally Jewish, the other a recovering Catholic—we find the ill-defined nature of the only day honoring the place that makes life itself possible more than a little sacrilegious. So, on this 53rd Earth Day we thought it useful to pose what a real Earth Day should represent and how it could form a central time for a new approach to worship.
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We often mock the idea that earth worship is some kind of religion whose patron saints are Al Gore and John Kerry. This article proves that we were spot on.