wait....im confused...
for one thing, i don't really see the tie of environmental hippies and paganism.
secondly, did coggins just post something anti-christian or is it just me reading things wrong?
Evinonmentalism and neo-Paganism
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I didn't tie "environmental hippies" to Paganism, even though the hippie movement, among others growing out of the 60s resurgence of Pagan and romantic primitivist themes, certainly could be in some salient ways (as well as a general, what might well be termed Dionysian world view and attitude about the core features of human existence) understood as a neo-Pagan resurgence or resuscitation (and the radical environmental movement certainly did feed and was fed by the hippies).
What I did was tie the environment movement per se, and especially the Deep Ecology aspect of the movement to an ethos and philosophy that is most conveniently understood as an eclectic form of militant neo-Gnosticism with a Pantheist or neo-Animist core. This could also fall under the rubric of neo-Paganism, as a salient feature of such ancient religious views was the veneration and worship of nature and/or the spirits or spiritual forces thought to exist within it. Modern environmentalism is, indeed, an eclectic fundamentalist neo-Paganism that is also, much like Jihadist Islam, inherently political.
I did not make an anti-Christian statement. Where did you see this?
What I did was tie the environment movement per se, and especially the Deep Ecology aspect of the movement to an ethos and philosophy that is most conveniently understood as an eclectic form of militant neo-Gnosticism with a Pantheist or neo-Animist core. This could also fall under the rubric of neo-Paganism, as a salient feature of such ancient religious views was the veneration and worship of nature and/or the spirits or spiritual forces thought to exist within it. Modern environmentalism is, indeed, an eclectic fundamentalist neo-Paganism that is also, much like Jihadist Islam, inherently political.
I did not make an anti-Christian statement. Where did you see this?