Blatant Reality

Today Philip Stott, who I just discovered the other day, wrote about the fracturing that can be seen in the Green Church and compares it to the current state of the Protestant “church”. As I am sure anyone who has taken European history is aware, the Protestant church has broken off into many and multiple sects.

For the Protestants, this really isn’t a problem since there isn’t a need to have strength in numbers in order to change some political agenda. For the Green Church however, every fracture causes more and more dillution to their overall ‘green’ message.

According to Stott, there are currently eight different sects. Take a look:

1. The General, or Pragmatic, Greens [believe that there may be many different pathways to heaven, to that Green Utopia. Often shares buildings with the Church of England];
2. The Particular Greens [reject nuclear power as a path option - often converts from The Old Church of CND, which was strong in the 1960s and 1970s];
3. The Particular and Strict Greens [reject nuclear power absolutely, and hold to a closed communion table of locally-produced ‘organic’ produce];
4. The Peculiar and Pure Greens [reject nuclear power absolutely, and hold to a closed communion table of vegan, or even fruitarian, food];
5. The Primitive Greens [reject all economic growth, and hold to a strict communion table of living in, and with, Nature. Use earth closets and grey water];
6. The Trustafarian Greens [wealthy churches which view being Green as a Sunday life-style choice. Key Biblical text: “It is easier for a Prius to go through the streets of Kensington, than for a poor man to enter into the Green Utopia.” (The Gospel According To Charles: 19:24)];
7. The Church of Malthus, sometimes called the ‘Creationologists’: [commune with animals and trees, and wish to reduce sinful humans to small relict, subsistence populations living with Nature. Key Biblical text: “The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation.” (The Other Gospel According To Thomas: 19:14)]; and finally,
8. The Greens of The Latterday World [It is too late! We are all doomed, and we will burn with the Earth at Armageddon].