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December 4, 2007
Green Hanukkia
Christmas isn't the only holiday infringed upon by politically correct idiocy:
In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.
The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.
"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said Liad Ortar, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site's environmental forum. "Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation."
Traditionally Hanukka involves Judaism. But this is quickly giving way to a different faith altogether.
Fortunately, not all Jews are on board. Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem's Ramban Congregation remarks:
Tikkun olam [fixing the world] must be done by adding more light and not by adding more darkness.
Amen.
On tips from David and Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 4, 2007 3:44 PM
Comments
If liberals would shut their pie-holes and hold their farts not only would the world be a quieter, more peaceful place - it would smell better too.
Posted by: Jimbo at December 4, 2007 5:54 PM
HOLY CRAPPE!
why not the middle servant candle? that way there'd be no way to light the others!
fargen idiotz.
Posted by: nanc at December 4, 2007 6:57 PM
Im going to light 8 candles and Im not even Jewish!
Light 8 candles - piss off a moonbat!
Posted by: Anonymous at December 4, 2007 8:12 PM
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at December 4, 2007 8:28 PM
