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Since that time, a broader and more insidious scheme has been implemented. With the help of the ever present liberal clergy, who studiously avoid and actively discourage "political involvement" on those prickly issues of abortion and sexual immorality, a new direction and rationale for "Christianity" has been established in the past few years. The two main pillars of this counterfeit spirituality are environmentalism and socialism. Not surprisingly, in regards to these issues those same liberal clerics are only too willing to lend a hand.

Concurrently, "Christian" populists, such as California megachurch pastor Rick Warren have done their best to open the floodgates of this modern "leaven," by supplanting stodgy old religionists and their narrow perspective of sin and redemption with the delightfully more flexible concept of "purpose." Under its auspices, saving an ostensibly endangered species might rate comparable spiritual glory with saving souls, while clearly representing far less of an affront to "old scratch." It is therefore liable to incur far less of a backlash from his leftist minions in the political arena or on the nightly news.

So, what are the real consequences facing a society that embraces these false premises of "spirituality" while abandoning the truth? The same as they have always been throughout history: decline and eventual ruin. And the evidence is mounting before our eyes.

Like some pagan culture whose members starve in the streets while worshipping the abundant livestock living in their midst, western civilization has amazingly opted to burn its own food supplies in order to produce fuel, though abundant oil supplies lie within its soil and just off its shores.

Meanwhile, the elites who have squandered a disproportionate share of those resources, traveling on their private jets to "environmental conferences," will continue to do so while the common citizen must endure greater and greater hardship in order to merely stay warm and get to work. Yet does the "Earth goddess" rejoice at this? Or is it merely those demigods of liberalism laughing at their extensive ranks of useful idiots? Social "Justice" indeed.

Chalk one up for "environmentalism" that will neither clean the planet nor make life better for its inhabitants. Yet the easily deceived are made to swell with sanctimony while those spearheading the movement gain in power and stature.

Ditto for the much older ploy of redistributing wealth. Under its influence, the nation's economy stagnates, working citizens on every rung of its economic ladder are increasingly driven to lower levels, and those in power increase their dominance. Nevertheless, the ruse continues under the premise of "fairness."

Americans are not ignorant of the crushing effects of rising energy costs, or the debilitating effect of excessive taxation. What is critical is to immediately enlighten them as to the inarguable cause and effect relationship between these burgeoning adversities and the fraudulent leftist ideologies that spawned them. Only then can the nation avert a continuation of its descent from once being that "shining city on a hill" to a dim caricature of its former glory, and an increasing reflection of third-world hardship and squalor.

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Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer and staff writer for the New Media Alliance. He lives in southeastern Wyoming. He has been active in local and state politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets products exclusively made in America. His contact information and archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com

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