Removing Reason

Our Adult Sunday school class is currently viewing the DVD series “Resisting the Green Dragon”, subtitled; “A Biblical Response to One of the Greatest Deceptions of Our Day”.  The series is produced by the Cornwall Alliance and presents a Christian response to radical environmentalism.

One of the segments our class viewed was “Logos vs Mysticism: Environmentalism’s Flight from Reason” by lecturer Dr. Vishall Mangalwadi. 

Dr. Mangalwadi is from India and related his experience in living the gospel in that country.  His experiences with the mystical religions of India and the philosophy of extreme environmentalism lead him to conclude that extreme environmentalists practice a form of mysticism which substitutes reason with feelings or emotionalism which leads to worshipping creation rather than the Creator.  He reminds us that human beings are living in someone else’s creation.  In other words “we didn’t make that” -  to borrow a phrase from our current president.  He also stated that if you remove the Word of God from our decision making process there is no reason to not steal, covet, or murder.  Animals do all those things and if we are nothing more than animals we are free to act like animals.  His statement, “If you are a monkey you will do monkey-business” is the inevitable result.

He also stated that the western cultural view of celibacy as remaining unmarried differs from the eastern (or mystics) view of celibacy.  Celibacy to the mystic is not abstaining from sex but from marriage.  Therefore, religious leaders like Mahatma Gandhi can claim celibacy but have multiple paramour’s.  Much like our Hollywood celebrities who have almost en-mass adopted mysticism as their worldview.  Consequently, our culture’s adoption of mysticism leads to a breakdown of the sanctity of marriage and rampant promiscuity and other immoral acts.

Removing the Word of God from our culture removes Reason. 

The Cornwall Alliance was established in May, 2007, and has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in America and internationally on issues of religion and environment and consists of a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, policy experts, and others committed to bringing a proper and balanced biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. You can visit their website HERE to order the DVD.

Posted by John R Ducommun