Walker: Christmas lights and environmental pantheism – The Daily Tribune

Several weeks ago a writer on this page pontificated at length about a lingering Christmas display in downtown Mt. Pleasant. Seems holiday lights not removed immediately at 12 a.m. December 26 are a garish, patchwork menace to the common good. Hoo boy.

If this cranky-pants observation didnt resonate with readers theres his sharing of opinions on inconsistent enforcement of city codes, hair-pulling on the Oakland County town of Rochester (a soulless, stamping plant suburb with the same interchangeable identity as every other town in the metro Detroit blob) and, why not?, human complicity in the whole climate-change magilla because plugging in Christmas lights past a certain date kills polar bears or something.

Whats next? Sucking lemons in front of the horn section of the high-school marching band?

It seems somebody needs his blankie, a glass of warm milk, a cookie, a lullaby and a hug. Perhaps a visit to the wonderful little town of Rochester is in order as well as a science lesson from reputable scientists rather than the self-aggrandizing pronouncements of Bill Nye (not a scientist), Neil deGrasse Tyson (not a climate scientist) or any number of pundits in this space claiming to have found the one true faith within their brand of environmentalism.

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Ahhh, but in this day and age it becomes necessary to attack Christmas decorations as god awful and ugly as sin in order to bolster a secularist faith in Christianitys stead. Get the religious irony of the lower-case g and the presupposition of sin, albeit sins according only to pantheistic sensibilities?

You gotta serve somebody, rasped Bobby Zimmerman, and better a secularized, pantheistic version than a celebration of the birth of Jesus, at least according to the writer(s) and celebrities mentioned above. Not for some the light curtains on a downtown eatery in a small, Midwestern college town, but, by all means, construct monstrosities across the rural landscapes of the United States that serve as the secular iconography of the environmentalist religion. Let us bow our heads and offer prayers to Gaia.

Just never you mind that you cant see the forests for the turbines, birds are pureed by the thousands, and light flicker and noise combine to generate a general health nuisance. Oh, yeah, all in the name of an energy source of questionable capabilities thatll never attain base load status and relies heavily on continued public subsidies. But, yeah, by all means, lets focus on Christmas lights because city codes should be enforced to every jot and tittle to appease the aesthetics of a malcontent in the service of the secular environmentalist Baal or some such poppycock.

Francis Bacon noted that knowledge is power sometime during the Renaissance. Its been a consistent ploy ever since the Renaissance to promote what passes for knowledge over meditation rather than a balance of the two. Hence the religious and ideological fervor displayed by the followers of scientism rather than real science; in their typical ends justify the means manner, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deliberately misled the world with fabrications refuting the 20-year hiatus in increasing global temperatures.

As it turns out, the priests at NOAA led by Tom Karl jooked scientific standards not to further science but to circumvent it by using incomplete data that cannot be verified for experimental results that cannot be duplicated, which is, you know, what real science is supposed to be. This past month, retired NOAA climatologist John Bates threw a flagrant manipulation of scientific integrity guidelines and scientific publication standards flag on the 2015 report lead-authored by Karl on Judith Currys Climate Etc. blog.

By all means, lets protect the environment as good stewards stewards applying real scientific knowledge and faith-based meditation, rather than merely the pronouncements of the charlatans of scientism and Christmas-light killjoys.

Bruce Edward Walker (walker.editorial@gmail.com) is a Morning Sun columnist and freelance writer.

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