R. Mark Musser is a Christian with a Master of Divinity degree from Oregon’s Western Seminary and several years’ experience as a missionary in Eastern Europe. He is currently a pastor in Olympia, Washington. Not only is Musser a Christian, he is given to a rather literalist interpretation of the Bible.
Fortunately, this is a cross not all of us have to bear.
Unfortunately, it saddles his Nazi Oaks with dozens of biblical passages, some spanning the better part of a page. Said passages will surely slip the book from many a reader’s hand, which is too bad because, aside from said passages, this 405-page, 1,334-footnote text easily passes as a piece of professional academic scholarship.
More importantly, Musser definitely contributes something valuable to the conversation about environmentalism with his Pantheism versus Christianity thesis.
What follows is a selective condensation of Pastor R. Mark Musser’s Nazi Oaks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Gist of Nazi Oaks
Musser Dispatches Some Ecofascist Revisionism
Eco-Nazis who kept up the Kampf
Back in the USA
Musser goes to the Movies
Conclusion
Bibliography
The Gist of Nazi Oaks
Pantheism/paganism (i.e. nature worship) is the most popular religion in the world today and in world history. Today’s nature worship (a.k.a. environmentalism or ecofascism) fills the vacuum left by a collapsing church. Christianity helps keep ecofascism at bay. As Christianity loses influence, and as churches sell out by supporting “progressive” causes, a counterweight to ecofascism is lifted.
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