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February 11, 2007
Enviromoonbattery Is a Religion
Posted by Dave Blount at February 11, 2007 1:06 PM
Arguments continue to accrue to have enviromoonbattery classified as a religion so that we can see if the ACLU will step in and save us from having it imposed by the government. As Joseph Brean notes at National Post:
[T]he green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion.
He quotes best-selling author Michael Crichton, who calls environmentalism "the religion of choice for urban atheists … a perfect 21st century re-mapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths."
Long-term predictions regarding the climate, like those regarding the economy, simply aren't possible. The only thing we know with confidence is that there will continue to be change. But faith allows us to see the future we want to see with absolute certainty, which is how moonbats are able to know for sure that we're headed toward their answer to the Apocalypse, global warming.
Once prophets like Al Gore have divined the future, "scientific" models are used to "prove" whatever needs proving. Isaac Newton's deterministic science died with Albert Einstein, but now it's coming back, no longer as science but as a cult whose monks wear white lab coats.
In addition to prophets and an Apocalypse, environmentalism offers an array of saints and heretics, as well as sacred texts belched out by organizations like the UN's IPCC. Using energy-saving light bulbs like the Boston Globe's laughable Ellen Goodman will not change the weather, but it does serve the purpose of the votive candle. Ecotourism junkets fulfill the role of pilgrimages. Instead of salvation, we now have the vague concept of "sustainability." Even tithing has been replicated, not only by tax money wasted on bogus reports and higher prices caused by crippled industries, but by scams like Bullfrog Power and Offsetters that sell the equivalent of indulgences to those who have sinned against liberals' pagan goddess by participating in civilization.
It will come as no surprise to connoisseurs of moonbattery that the elitist Left represents the devolution of our civilization. Its beloved Gaia Hypothesis, which regards the Earth as a living organism, "confirms the return of a sort of idolatrous animism," as Brean puts it.
Something has to fill the vacuum left by the Left's war on Christianity. Islam has been doing this in Europe, but it will have to compete with the human-hating Gaia worship personified by Al Gore. To put it mildly, neither is an improvement on our Christian heritage.
On a tip from Bergbikr.
