Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: A bit more on the "Church of Environmentalism"
Carl Olson follows up his article which I posted last night ( see this blog ) with some observations by Roger Kimball of Pajamas Media . Quick: what is the fastest growing religious movement in the United States? No, not Islam, but the Church of Environmentalism . It is a low church, adamantly non-ecumenical, but aggressively proselytizing. More than a decade ago, the philosopher Harvey Mansfield observed that “Environmentalism is school prayers for liberals.” How right he was. But I wonder whether even so astute an observer as Professor Mansfield foresaw just how widespread, and how passionate (as in Yeats’s “the best lack all conviction, the worse are full of passionate intensity”), the Church of Environmentalism would be in the early 21st Century. Green be to you ! You've got to read the rest...