Ignatius Insight Scoop: What is the world's leading "secular religon"?
This was posted several days ago by Carl Olson and I meant to be sure I placed the link on this blog . The question is answered in a summary by Freeman Dyson who reviews several recent books on global warming: "Freeman Dyson , who is a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (2000), reviews a couple of books on global warming for the June 12, 2008, issue of The New York Review of Books (ht: CF). What is most interesting, at least to me, are his concluding remarks: All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is