{"id":112578,"date":"2022-08-24T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=112578"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:44:52","slug":"trees-cut-down-at-uc-berkeley-receive-sunday-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/trees-cut-down-at-uc-berkeley-receive-sunday-memorial-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees cut down at UC Berkeley receive Sunday memorial service"},"content":{"rendered":"

More paganism out of our nation\u2019s elite universities<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Students mourned the trees cut down to make way for new dorms at the University of California Berkeley.<\/p>\n

The memorial service on Sunday involved an \u201copen-mic\u201d where activists could express their thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the open-mic portion of the memorial, people expressed support for People\u2019s Park, voicing stories about the park, reciting songs, praying and dancing,\u201d the student newspaper The Daily Californian<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The day \u201cbegan with a morning art session to decorate a memorial to the park\u2019s redwoods and palm trees and the garden\u2019s fruit trees that were cut down,\u201d the student newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunity member Elisa Smith said many of the felled trees had been planted in memory of community members who advocated for the park in the past and that activists have arranged to build altars at the trees\u2019 stumps,\u201d the campus newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

I will throw out a theory here that liberals, often critical of religion, will search for ways to fill the void that faith often fills for other people.<\/p>\n

It must be noted that their Sunday event included prayer, music, sermons and altars. On a Sunday. Where did they get that idea from?<\/p>\n

It is reminiscent when Union Theological Seminary appropriated<\/a> the Catholic Sacrament of Confession and had students confess to plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor,\u201d the New York seminary tweeted. \u201cWhat do you confess to the plants in your life?\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholic priest Robert Sirico warned<\/a> nearly 30 years ago that environmentalism \u201cspawned a revival of pagan earth worship in the form of Gaia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe premise of Gaian theory is that the Earth itself is a superorganism both living and divine,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe movement has found followers among feminists attracted to the idea of Mother Earth or an Earth goddess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pagan worship has friends across the country from UC Berkeley, too.<\/p>\n

Students at Yale\u2019s Divinity School held a \u201cpantheistic\u201d Earth Day celebration. It included \u201cIndigenous- and Black ecology-based with a sprinkle of cosmology and Pantheistic mysticism\u201d and \u201ca prayer to Prithivi, Hinduism\u2019s personification of Mother Earth,\u201d according to the Yale Daily News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

St. Boniface cut down<\/a> the Germans’ trees to show them the folly of worshiping trees. It was wrong 1,500 years ago to worship trees and wrong today.<\/p>\n

MORE<\/strong>: Professor spurs ‘ecosexual’ movement<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGE: Defend People’s Park\/Facebook<\/p>\n

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