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The road to hell : Comments

By Peter Kurti, published 30/10/2014

Campaigners in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, led by convicted Hilton bomber Evan Pederick, have followed national church policy adopted earlier in the year and forced the Perth synod to dump all its fossil fuel investments.

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Sections 4.9 & 4.10 of the bullet point summaries of the human created world situation via this remarkable book
http://www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm state:

"Altogether, there are two now-global forms of dependency which must be gone beyond: dependency on fossil fuels and dependency on animal protein as food.

Both of these dependencies have broad political, social, and economic implications, and both are associated with conglomerates of corporate power which wield a great deal of influence."

So perhaps the actions of both the Anglican church and the ANU are a step in the right direction.

Meanwhile the CIS is of course a propaganda machine/outlet for the conglomerates of corporate power that now wield a great deal of power - the situation is thus briefly described in paragraph 1.46:

"The power of industry and money has actually become senior to the power of governments, and is now controlling the entire world"

As a matter of interest the author points in the last chapter of this book that wide-spread global poverty will always be a feature of the human world, and that the continued prosperity of the relative few comes at the expense of others, and in fact depends on the suffering and exploitation of others.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 30 October 2014 11:19:16 AM
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It is interesting to note that Peter Kurti has an essay in the new November issue of Quadrant Magazine lamenting the pernicious influence of the advocates of "aggressive" secularism.

For better or worse the now world-dominant secular/materialist world view has effectively destroyed most/all of up until now existing forms of religion and especially whatever sacred culture that existed as an extension of that religion.

From another perspective the philosophy and culture promoted by now-time secular/materialists is primarily an adolescent phenomenon. Whereas old time father-knows-best patriarchal religion is essentially a childish, even infantile phenomenon.

The adolescents have of course inevitably defeated the children and infants.

Sacred Culture only comes into being, and is thus sustained by a Living Spiritual Tradition. Such a Living Spiritual Tradition does not exist in the Western world, and has not done so for a very long time now.
There are of course various rear-guard gestures at trying to restore a Sacred Culture in the West. Such was and is the efforts of right-wing conservative "catholics" beginning with the recent popes: JPII, Benedict and now Francis.
Needless to say their patriarchal father-knows-best ultra-reactionary deeply misogynist world-view, manifest in the form of opus dei and similar back-to-the-past "traditionalist" outfits is THE essential problem - such outfits being forms of collective psychosis as demonstrated by the graphic images to be found here:
http://spiritlessons.com/passionofchristpictures.htm

Matthew Fox described the situation in his book The Pope's War Against the Church - it was once favorably reviewed on this forum.

Of course the tragic irony is that it is the capitalist world-machine and its now world-wide "culture" of death that IS the leading edge form of the secular culture that Peter Kurti decries. It is also the leading edge vector which has, by its very nature inevitably destroyed all forms of traditional Sacred Culture.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:42:52 PM
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It must be hard for members of a dying organisation to be struggling to find some relevancy in the modern world.

It is typical that they would reach out & grab the coat tails of another dying group, the global warming fraud perpetuators. Desperation gathers strange bedfellows.

I guess this will help to finally kill off the Anglican church, just a little more quickly.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 30 October 2014 1:04:27 PM
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The Anglicans and Uniting Church are Christians in name only, many of the congregations are simply made up of leftists and "progressives" who don't even believe in god, to them Jesus is more a secular idealogue than a spiritual being.
What they really resemble are Pagans, they profess Christian beliefs yet still hold onto secular, materialist traditions such as "social justice".
Justice Versus Social Justice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOp1GOL3skU&list=UU6TJdRrZR_WacbxJWiRZ5_g
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Thursday, 30 October 2014 2:15:12 PM
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So the Revolt Against Reason hasn't prevailed against the Enlightenment in the civilised world. Isn't making much headway in the Islamic world either.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Thursday, 30 October 2014 3:01:49 PM
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My first reaction to the mention of Pederick’s past was the same as yours – it’s a vicious and gratuitous ad hominem. On reflection, I’m not so sure, though. Pederick’s participation in the bombing was linked to his association with the religious cult Ánanda Márga, which had rather idiosyncratic views on ecology. It is not therefore unrelated to the question of his advocacy of environmentalism through the pulpit – which he does often, according to his website.

I agree, though, that Peter Kurti’s attack on motives is wide of the mark. I have no doubt the eco-theology activists are sincere and well meaning, not cynically trying to attract a younger congregation. I just think they’re wrong.
Posted by Rhian, Thursday, 30 October 2014 3:36:13 PM
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