Climate Activists Smash 10 Climate Commandment Tablets On Mt. Sinai

Dawn broke crisp and clear over Mount Sinai on Sunday morning, as half a dozen climate activists gathered to adorn their cause with religious overtones. They chose the site based on its proximity to COP27, a global climate summit now underway at Sinai coastal resort Sharm El-Sheikh, but once chosen they couldn't resist conscious parallels to Moses receiving the Old Covenant. 

Organizer Yosef Abramowitz, a solar energy CEO who stands to profit from a global commitment to green energy, was convinced he had received a heavenly sign to "proceed with the climate covenant, the 10 climate commandments." Participants took turns reading out the "commandments" -- or rather, "principles," more like guidelines than actual rules -- before Abramowitz smashed two stone tablets on the ground, in clear imitation of the prophet Moses.

Yet the imitation lacked the weightiness of the original. In this ceremony was no "blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them" (Hebrews 12:18-19). Once so holy that Moses must walk unshod (Exodus 3:5), the mountain is ordinary, if ruggedly beautiful without the manifest presence of God; these activists needed not, and did not, bother to remove their shoes. READ MORE