For those who do not know, there is a sort of official Mount Sinai. At the base is Saint Catherine’s Monastery, and then a long, high trail that leads to the summit, where there is a chapel and a mosque. Pilgrims make the long, arduous trek in the pre-dawn hours, wanting to be there as the sun rises. If you like Expedition Unknown, watch the episodes on Moses. And here we have supposed religious folks joining a cult
Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push
An initiative to mobilize faith leaders worldwide to push governments to do more about climate change kicked off Sunday morning with an Israeli environmental activist smashing mock tablets of stone atop an Egyptian peak believed by many to be Mount Sinai, to symbolize the world’s failure to protect the planet.
The idea was hatched in the run up to the United Nations COP27 climate conference taking place in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, by solar energy entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz and David Miron Wapner, who chairs the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development.
The Sinai Climate Partnership, symbolically launched at the ceremony, brings together the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, the Elijah Interfaith Institute, the Peace Department, the United Nations Faith for Earth Initiative, Abramowitz’s Gigawatt Global, and the Israeli environmental advocacy organization, Adam Teva V’Din.
After sunrise, Abramowitz and Wapner gathered at the summit together with Nigel Savage, the founder and former director of the US Jewish environmental organization Hazon, and his successor Jakir Manela, to read sections the Holy Land Declaration on Climate Change signed in 2011 by the multifaith Council of Religious Leaders of the Holy Land. Two teens from the US, there as part of Christian Climate Observers, joined the ceremony as well.
After the group read from a new draft list of “Ten Principles for Climate Repentance,” formulated by dozens of multifaith leaders meeting in London over the past few days, Abramowitz smashed two tablets on the ground.
You know, just like Moses gave us God’s 10 Commandments. This is beyond nuts, especially as we dip into the climate repentance stuff, which is very silly, if you go read it. Using this spot is insane.
Protect the planet from what? Humans?
The ENTIRE climate push has been and is “faith-based”.
I suspect you are right for the vast majority of believers. But certainly for the people at the center of it, it is greed and self-interest based. For a great many more, it is simply authority based. “Believe because we are the government and we tell you” is a pretty persuasive argument. Followed up with, “believe because we are your teachers and we tell you” and “believe because we are fully funded scientists and we tell you”. It is actually rational that so many people believe, despite what their own senses tell them is true. It is no warmer now than it was when they were kids. The oceans are no higher now than they were 100 years ago. The Sun changes the weather on Earth and we see the evidence of that every day.
Lol
Does the Golden Calf represent methane belchers?The Golden Calf must be destroyed
Really who still believes that the writings of host herders 3000 years ago represent the rules we must live by? no bar b que ribs ?
Yes, Hairy. Every culture on the planet believes that murder, theft and blasphemy are wrong. Every single one. Even the communists. They just quibble about what murder, theft, and blasphemy are. Tell us all how you have been harmed by a 3000 year old belief that societies should be governed by a common set of rules for their mutual benefit. I note you don’t hesitate to resort to those rules that you hate when you want to support foreign invasion of our lands.
Just because you are a Jew hating antisemite doesn’t mean you should piss on their long history of beliefs. The Golden Calf was a turning point for Israel. You could either respect that or STFU.
You pagans and infidels are vry low class. But your fear of God is beautiful to watch.
L’Roy,
Do Jews go to heaven?
Even Jews will tell you they don’t but why ask me? Jews don’t even believe in heaven they believe in “a world to come” but not Heaven.
You realize you can look this stuff up?
The nuclear industry ultimately emerges, holding all the cards.
Don’t forget to recycle your plutonium.