by wintler » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:26 am
--<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://spectrummagazine.typepad.com/the_spectrum_blog/2006/09/adventist_repre.html">spectrummagazine.typepad....repre.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>Adventist Representative Bows to the Rev. Moon<br>By Alexander Carpenter 15/9/06<br><br>Here's a little moral dilemma for your Sabbath pondering. <br>Say you're an Adventist and the Congressional Representative from the 6th district of Maryland. Several of your fellow Republicans invite you to help them crown the Rev. Sun Myung Moon the King of Peace. Oh, besides running the Unification church, Moon's also a billionaire and funding a big push to have churches take out the cross and replace it with a crown. Do you go along or not? ..<br>Roscoe Bartlett is announced about 7:20 into the clip.<br><br>Link is provided to youtube <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08clPMODw8">www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08clPMODw8</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>vid of 2004 coronation of Moon as King of America.<br><br>--<br><br><br>The event is old news, news for me is that Bartlett was there and even ceremonially carried Mrs Moons robes - yikes. Signif for me is in remembering Dreams End & others concerns over the history and allies of other prominent peak oilers Richard Heinberg and Matthew Simmons. The Adventist Church is not high on my list of favs but it beats the Moonies, who scare the willies out of me. <br><br>Bartletts participation in that event puts a fat black blot next to his name for me, and thought US readers should be alert to him - he is leading US gov talk on peak oil, and some of his solutions (drill everywhere, nukes) are bad bad news.<br><br>More than a few opportunists have been seen sporting peak oil colours (british nazis, Watchtower magazine), which doesn't for me prove it is fabricated. Solutions being pushed by Simmons and Bartlett are similar, tho Simmons is lately leaning much heavier on the conservation/efficiency/appropriate-tech/relocalisation horn that greenies like myself advocate. <br>Heinberg coined the term powerdown and i find his current policy proposals mostly agreeable, tho have been willing to admit some of his past associates and writings are disturbing. Frankly i find this news (to me) on Bartlett far more disturbing, welcome any obs on current links with 'Church' of SY Moon. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>