The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa wants to become California's first certified "green" hotel — meaning it is friendly to the environment. Bloomberg reports the facility is equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper.
It also is doing away with one staple of hotel rooms all across the world — the Gideon Bible. It seems that the effort to be green has led the hotel to move the Bible out of the nightstand drawer — replacing it on the bureau will be a copy of Al Gore's global warming book — "An Inconvenient Truth."
It is the hotel’s prerogative to furnish or not furnish whatever religious texts they desire, whether it is the Bible, Mao’s Little Red Book, or the prophet Al’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (an appropriate title for the Bible too). The point is a lot of what passes for environmentalism must be taken on faith – such as not changing incandescent light bulbs for fluorescents will have the seas lapping at my doorstep in fifty years.
As in Galileo’s day when ill-informed doctors of religion regarded the heavens and all things in them rotating around their world, the environmentalists have put the human at the center of their universe. After all a primary doctrine of their faith is humans cause global warming. Like Galileo, those that don’t conform to their beliefs are heretics who must be made to conform.
Other than fertilizer, the religion of environmentalism, however, doesn’t offer much of an afterlife. This is its fatal flaw. If life doesn’t go on, does it really matter what happens when you are gone? Here is where the environmentalist might want to take a page from the Bible.
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