Earth Day becoming a religious holiday?

To be perfectly honest, i think we should be keeping religion right out of it… doesn’t matter what your affiliation, someone somewhere will find something to be offended about, and any possible meaningful dialogue will descend into internecine squabbling between the various factions..

According to one definition of religion, it’s a system of faith and worship. I guess then the worship part becomes tricky – are we worshipping the earth? I could see the sacred in earth day, but I’m not sure I would go so far as to say I worship the earth.

Earth Day’s becoming a religious holiday should be met with opposition from Judeo-Christian entities mainly because it would be an obviously earth based religious holiday, making it a pagan celebration.

We who are pagan would love it, though!

seconded, from this pagan, i think earth day is already a religious holiday.

I also believe religion should be kept out of it, and that quite a few people are going way overboard with this global warming/climate change thing, but I do think that it’s about time that we start taking better care of our home, planet Earth.

The temperature of earth increase day by day leads to global warming……It should be protect ….a collective effort requires :eek::eek:

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yes it should be,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Sure, many of Al Gore’s facts were false, his scientific methods were debatable, and his statistics skewed. But whether you believe him or not, whether you believe in global warming or not, you can’t help but commend the guy for having the guts to go out there, step out of his comfort zone and at least start this kind of dialogue. If he hadn’t started this, these kinds of debates wouldn’t exist, and even if we aren’t the main cause of global warming, even if global warming isn’t happening, it doesn’t hurt to change the way we live. And it’s thanks to him in the end.
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and why NOT..?
the idea is great. the day should be treated as a religious holiday all over the planet.:cool:
my appreciation..

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I have no idea who Kent Bush is but I will say that I think Al Gore has done a good job of bringing climate problems to the forefront and I can only hope that he lives the way he wants other to.
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