A return to nature worship betokens a return to an immoral age.(Brief Article)

From: Alberta Report | Date: October 25, 1999| Author: BYFIELD, TED; BYFIELD, VIRGINIA | Copyright information

Nature worship, says Robert Mellert, will be the religion of the new millennium. His prophecy appears in a collection of essays called "Frontiers of the 21st Century" and was described last month in the Vancouver Sun. If it proves to be true, then something else will also be true. We won't be going forward into the new millennium; we'll be going backward into it.

Mr. Mellert doesn't call this religion nature worship, of course. He calls it by its correct name, pantheism....

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