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The rise of the Greens: politics and the supernatural : Comments
By David Castles, published 14/7/2011The Greens are an alternate religion encroaching on the turf rightfully held by the established churches.
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Not sure and I am not really interested
“Communism” was not “A Religion”
But I am certain that in not being a religion, it was more devout about its views than even the Spanish Inquisition and treated “heretics” to the ordained “communist view” with the same intolerance as the Spanish Inquisition
So do I care that Being “Green” is or is not a religion
No I don’t
But what I do care about is
The right of non-greens to pursue the religion of their choice
And on this matter, the omnipotent attitude of greens to impose their “collectivist” minority will over everyone else is the danger (just as the adoption of Sharia law in Australia presents problems)
Environmental activism is one thing, spouting off about how other people will be allowed to live their lives is an entirely different matter
Most of the time “tolerance” is the best option but when faced with despotic greens demanding they turn back the clock 300 years, “tolerance” bynon-greens holds some risks
and then it becomes like democracy, the worst of solutions (except for all the other so called “solutions”)
I will be “tolerant” until the first green tells me what I am allowed to do… and then, for me and most other right-of-centre libertarian moderates, the costs of tolerance become too expensive to maintain.