[escepticos] Sobre ecolatria y medicina cuestionable

[Santiago Arteaga <arteaga@...>]

	He encontrado dos cosas que os pueden interesar. 

	Por un lado esta el museo de los aparatos medicos
cuestionables,  http://www.mtn.org/quack/ . Que le voy a hacer, me
gustan las historias de chifladuras.

	Por otro lado esta el texto de mas abajo, mas dificil de
clasificar. Fue escrito para una de esas revistas "integristas"
americanas; basicamente es un cristiano de derechas que se queja del
trato injusto que recibe su religion comparado con el que recibe la
ecolatria. Esta escrito en serio, pero con golpes de humor acido 
que ha conseguido arrancarme carcajadas.

	Creo que lo que estoy haciendo es simpatizar con el enemigo, 
asi que sera mejor que me calle cuanto antes. Saludos,

	Santi



Are environmentalists insane? Are they dangerous sociopaths who need to be
locked away for their own good?

The following article by Dr. Samuel Gipp further explains these points. Dr.
Gipp's stunning assertion is that, "Environmentalists are DESTROYERS. They
build nothing and live to destroy the progress of others. They destroy dams,
roads, and buildings. They need to be institutionalized."

Dr. Gipp, who has been my guest a number of times on the Power of Prophecy
radio program, makes a valid point. If we judge environmentalists strictly
by mental health standards, we must conclude that they are deluded,
psychologically off, and very dangerous. They need treatment. Of course, Dr.
Gipp and I would both agree that environmentalists can be cured of their
severe mental illness. And a cure can be found short of their being treated
by psychiatrists or being carted off to an insane asylum. The cure needed is
not psychological but spiritual. That cure is Jesus. He alone can cure their
spiritual sickness--if they will but repent and believe.

>From  many years of studying environmentalists, I have come to the conclusion
that they are unyielding religious fanatics. They are also seriously
mentally ill. This makes for a dangerous combination.

Their Religion


Their druid-like religious disposition is evident by their non-environment
benefiting arguments. They want roads and dams destroyed because the
environment needs to be "returned to pristine condition."
      This is a religious conviction rather than a scientific fact. They
show no mercy when hearing about an animal killing a person because they
worship the animal and feel that the humans actions have offered it a
sacrifice. They see the earth as an object to be served and venerated rather
than a well designed ball of dirt. They claim that cutting a tree down is
murder because the tree is alive; yet they never carry this argument over to
the lettuce in their salad.
      When environmentalists speak of such things as: "Mother Earth,"
"Gaia," and "harmonic convergence," they are invoking religious ideals.
Their fascination with crystals is also religion based. And, of course,
their association with witchcraft is further testimony of religious rather
than scientific roots.
      The self-righteous satisfaction they derive from being the
self-appointed "guardians" of nature is typical of any other religious
fanatic who bases his righteousness on his works. Thus, every time an
environmentalist forces us to obey his desires, he is "shoving his religion
down our throats." When the government forces us to obey governmental laws,
it is violating the "separation of church and state" by forcing us to
worship according to the dictates of a state-sanctioned religion.

Their Mental Illness

The mental illness of environmentalism manifests itself in three forms:
Paranoid, Delusional, and Criminal insanities.

1. PARANOID INSANITY--This is the mildest form of the mental illness of
environmentalism. Religious environmentalists live in a state of paranoia.
They fear that they will ingest some "horrible chemical" in their food so
they demand "organic" foods. They fear that cars are going to destroy the
air (Its cleaner than ever) so they do all they can to eliminate the
private ownership of cars while they pridefully ride their bikes.
      These people think that you can hurt dirt by walking on it. They want
to close national parks to people. They are mentally ill. Their anti-social
behavior creates problems for all who come in contact with them.
      The paranoids want stricter and stricter environmental laws to force
people to protect the earth. Higher gas prices, forced recycling, and
federally protected insects are just some of the pet projects of these
tortured minds.

2. DELUSIONAL INSANITY--This form of the mental illness that afflicts
environmentalists is somewhat more severe than simple paranoia. The
delusionists see the earth as sacred and feel it is their divine calling to
defend it. Where the paranoids see chemicals, companies, and cars as the
villain the delusionalists lay blame on all mankind.
      They see mankind as a blight on the earth. They feel that nothing man
does to protect the environment is enough. Actually, they are closet
"humanity haters" and are always glad to hear when a wild animal has killed
a human. Some famous delusionalists have stated that they felt the smallpox
virus had a right to exist! (Yet, being ideologically dishonest liberals,
they never carry this philosophy over to the AIDS virus.) They have actually
longed for some virus to eliminate the human race so that the earth will no
longer be "afflicted" by human parasites.
      This form of mental illness of environmentalism is a warning sign of
the last, most dangerous form.

3. CRIMINAL INSANITY--Environmentalists immerse themselves in the "horror"
of human-caused "damage" to the earth and the "rightness" of their cause.
Once their unstable minds have been subjected to the constant preaching of
the environmental "gospel," they lose touch with reality and seek only to
hurt and destroy.
      Some have been known to release cattle and sabotage farm equipment.
Others criminally destroy the clothing of someone wearing fur, regardless of
their constitutional right to wear it. Some have "spiked" trees so that a
loggers chainsaw will hit the spike and hopefully kill him. These people
are evil, merciless, and dangerous.

What Should Be Done?
There are a number of ways to help those afflicted with the environmental
illness--ways which can help them to successfully overcome their sickness.

INDIRECT METHODS--We can deal with environmentalists without directly
interfering with their lives by resisting their attempts to force their will
on us as individuals. By resisting their "orders" to recycle, refrain from
driving, curtail use of natural resources and such, we free ourselves from
their mental oppression. The mental illness of environmentalism causes those
afflicted by it to become "power-mad."
      The more you submit to an environmentalist, the more unreasonable
their demands become. You can deal with an environmentalist through
"appeasement" about as well as Lloyd George did when he appeased Hitler and
"prevented" World War II ("Peace in our time," the simpleton claimed.) By
resisting and even publicly rebuking environmentalists, their overt
tendencies are suppressed, and they can re-enter normal life.

DIRECT METHODS--Since religious environmentalism is a mental disease, it
must be treated like one. Those afflicted by the malady must be gathered
into central locations and treated. They will require counseling, drug
therapy, shock treatments, or whatever is necessary to restore their sanity
and return them to being productive members of society. The state presently
administers such treatments to other mentally ill citizens, even against
their will. Therefore, there is hope for environmentalists.

LEGAL METHODS--Once the sick mind of an environmentalist forces him to cross
the line to the realm outside the law, they are to be dealt with as are
other criminals. These criminal environmentalists are, in fact, terrorists.
They seek to achieve their goals by criminally terrorizing the general
population.
      Like any criminal, they have no regard for the rights or lives of
their victims. Judges, no matter how liberal, owe it to the general public
to protect us all from criminal environmentalists by sentencing them as they
would any rapist or murderer. Judges should show no leniency or preference
in dealing with them.
      If their minds can be salvaged through mental treatments,
environmentalists can return to society. If not, then the general public is
safer with them incarcerated. The population of a nation is not to be held
hostage by the mind of a crazy person.
      Incidentally, mentally ill environmentalists working in the news media
are to be treated as other environmentalists--counseling, drugs, or
incarceration--whichever turns them back into normal people.
      In summary, environmentalists can be saved from themselves if we but
have the courage to act!