Via Ed Driscoll, Is Environmentalism a Religion?
Novelist Michael Crichton said that environmentalism had all the trappings of a religion: “Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday.” Atwood is filling it out with saints and hymns.
Actually, Al Gore had already beat her to it:
Environmentalism is a religion, and Al Gore is its Prophet:
Al’s Gore’s much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
Amen.
Don’t forget the buying of indulgences (from Reverend Al’s carbon credit company) to atone for your enviro-sins…
Al Gore is right up there with L Ron Hubbard
Silverfiddle, methinks that Hubbard had much more claim to being correct (and his score on this is a big zero) than Owlgore does. Gore is the ultimate in being a pious charlatan much as the popes of old before the Reformation. The folk(s) who hacked the data and put it out proving the lies of the AGW fools are akin to Martin Luthor nailing the 95 Theses to the doors of the cathedral in Wittenberg thus you are absolutely correct in youur comment in re: “the [selling] of indulgences”
Good thing I haven’t ate breakfast yet as I fear I may have carbo unloaded on viewing St Al.
No, it’s a cult. It’s founded on operant conditioning of a core of adherents. Now don’t take that dirty old bus to work if you don’t want to feel bad. Crawl.
You’re right on the money, Joe. It is a cult.