Creating your own spiritual culture: Workshop feedback at the Camp for Climate A

FFS do you really think this is a good advert for the climate camp?!

Fucking 'A*+' to the atheists. I prefer atheists trying to off the almighty than hippys trying to reinvent him. God is not dead, he is just being bored to death by fucking po-mo morons.

Because none of us can know for certain or prove that there is no such thing as God or there is such a thing as God being an atheist is more like a belief system. I prefer agnosticism because I don't KNOW either way.

Great that the Climate Camp were involved in spiritual experiences, for it is becoming increasingly common that people have spiritual experiences who do not believe in religion or any particular Religion (like me). People world wide are recognising that there is a spiritual link between us all whether or not we agree with it or are prepared to admit it.

The spiritual teachers of the past have great wisdom - for instance they were wise enough not to start any religions themselves - it was their ignorant followers who started religions - which started wars etc.

What the two comments above have missed is that you don't need a God or to reinvent God to express your own spirituality and be in contact with other people experiencing spirituality - you just need to feel. Spirituality is a part of everyone and it is as natural as breathing and just as beneficial.

What is it about environmental politics that attracts these hippy dippy idiots? And WHY are they tolerated?

Read the comments on the workshop with interest thanks for your replies. This is not hippy dippy shit it is a genuine exploration of what values people live by.What motivates me is the teachings of the Buddha .. to show compassion and love for all beings and that means all the planet! It seems that some people are really quite intolerant of the viewpoints and motivations of others, and seem to imply that unless you are hard left, an activist , and gert arrested you do not count. The fact is that we are all in this together and the green movement is a broad church. Everyone has the right to say there is no meta physical reality but they do not have the right to impose this on everyone else. The sort of intolerance in some of the comments looks like a form of eco fascism, that there is only one type of person that can participate in a climate camp. If you discard the views of people like me then you weaken the very foundation of the green movement and there are not enough green activists already. Think about it!
Chris Philpott