Happy Dirt-Worshipers Day*

Today is the big day, folks.
No, not Good Friday, for heaven's sake.
But Dirt-Worshipers Day.
OK, you know it as Earth Day.
But come on. Really. It might as well be a national holiday. I am certain that the United Nations would like it to be an international holiday.
Again, to be clear, I consider myself a conservationist. Yes, we do have a moral obligation to be good stewards to the gift of Almighty God's creation. But the extemism of the enviornmental movement is what I am vehmently against.
If you go to the link above, go down far enough and you will see a poster proving my point. The poster, from the first Earth Day in 1970 says the following:

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Really? We are our own enemy?
It is that extremism that I abhor about the enviornmental movement.
Want a real scary coinkidink?
The American Earth Day zealot, former Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson, came up with celebrating this day on this date. And yet somehow he had no clue that this is also the birthday of the worst big government tyrant of all time, Vladamir Lenin. It is probably true that Mr. Nelson did not realize the coninkidink because Mr. Nelson was so engrossed in the enviornmental movement. And yes, it is true that Lenin was probably not an environmentalist. However, one can not doubt that he would be intrigued by the movement and its clear support of big govenrmnet and its clear anti-capitalist bent.
Arbor Day, usually the last Friday in April, is a celebration of life, renewal by the concept of planting trees to renew the land. It is decidedly a non-political event meant to renew not just the wonder of nature but the human spirit as well. This May 5, 2009 editorial in the Washington Times makes the point of the contrast between the two days.
Folks, I am not trying to intentionally disparage Earth Day. I am just trying to alert you to the fanaticism of the proponents.
If we are all good stewards of God's creation, then this planet will survive long after we are all gone. The problem is the differnce between the two sides. And that is going to be an ongoing debate for many a moon.
Meanwhile, have a Happy Dirt-Worshiping Day!*

*-Yes, I know, it is E A R T H D A Y!