Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Eco-Theology: The Media Suddenly Gets Religious

New Media Craze -- 'Eco-Theology':  Using Oil Spill + Religion to Promote Green Agenda
By Jeff Poor
Newsbusters.org
7/14/20

"Where would Jesus drill?"


That sounds almost like it could be the opening of a tree hugger's bad joke, but instead it's the lede in a recent Associated Press story written by John Flesher about a so-called "Green religion movement."
Efforts to make environmentalism its own sort of religion have been underway for some time now. But the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has sparked a new push to take what has been traditionally a political phenomenon, the American environmentalist movement, and make it part of the religious spectrum.