Proposal: Global Warming Should Be An Official Religion
Global Warming should be declared an Official Religion. (It probably is in the minds of many) Global Warming has all the trappings of any major religion. It has its tenants, thou shalt not own anything emitting Carbon; it has its sins, thou shalt not exceed thy Carbon Footprint; It has its indulgences, thou shalt pay for Carbon Credits; it has its high priest and spiritual leader, ex-divinity school drop-out Algore. It has followers around the world. Its HQ is in the UN Building in NYC. Its Cardinals are the members of the IPCC.
The followers of this religion are zealots and will declare any non-believer a heretic, and if they could, burn them at the stake. It’s fun to watch the zealots practice their religion, they do it with more zeal than any main line religion. If anything, they evangelize more than any religion I have seen lately. Maybe they should fall under the First Amendment.
Just look at this Blog and see the zeal at which they will demonize any non-believer. With any counter discussion, there is no room for discussions, because to the true believer, the case is settled and there is no room for any other thought.
I have an internal chuckle at their absolutism when if other religions are discussed, there is wiggle room that is not allowed in the religion of Global Warming.
Thomas Tallis:
you realize you could search-and-replace with “free enterprise” or any other politically-tinged belief here, right?
10 July 2009, 10:15 pmThomas Tallis:
you further realize the difference between “its” and “it’s,” right?
10 July 2009, 10:15 pmYorkshire:
Thomas Tallis:
you realize you could search-and-replace with “free enterprise” or any other politically-tinged belief here, right?
Maybe not to the extent GW takes it! Let’s say that GW has a whole website of talking points for each non-believer’s point. I think that that is a little unique. But when I clicked on each point, I got an error sign. Hmmmmm.
10 July 2009, 10:34 pmYorkshire:
Thomas Tallis:
you further realize the difference between “its” and “it’s,” right
Let’s say Brain Fart. Don’t worry, Pho will provide a three page paper on the subject in the very near future.
It’s is a contraction for it is or it has.
Its is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it.
And there is absolutely, positively, no such word as its’.
10 July 2009, 10:39 pmpgwarner:
You realize that pointing that out is a sign of childish impotence, right? BTW - Your coma should be outside your quotation marks. “it’s,” - That be not right and stuff, da ya realize?
Can you spell P-E-D-A-N-T-I-C?
10 July 2009, 11:01 pmpgwarner:
Hey York, remember Dylan…
10 July 2009, 11:06 pmpgwarner:
Some people choose to serve Gaia.
10 July 2009, 11:08 pmPhoenician in a time of Romans:
Maybe not to the extent GW takes it! Let’s say that GW has a whole website of talking points for each non-believer’s point. I think that that is a little unique.
Nope. You can see it with evolution resources, anti-holocaust revisionism resources, and gay marriage resources. Whenever you have one side consistently trotting out discredited arguments, ignoring facts and relying on ignorance, those putting forward the truth will assemble resources definitively countering those tired lies.
10 July 2009, 11:09 pmYorkshire:
pgwarner:
Hey York, remember Dylan…
As Paul Simon once sang:
10 July 2009, 11:12 pmWhen you Dylan, they think you’re talkin’ bout Dylan Thomas.
The man ain’t got no culture, everybody must get stoned.
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
Let’s say Brain Fart. Don’t worry, Pho will provide a three page paper on the subject in the very near future.
Three pages? Three words: Strunk and White.
10 July 2009, 11:12 pmYorkshire:
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
Let’s say Brain Fart. Don’t worry, Pho will provide a three page paper on the subject in the very near future.
Three pages? Three words: Strunk and White.
That’s cheating.
10 July 2009, 11:14 pmPhoenician in a time of Romans:
Do you know any Bob Dylan?
Not to mention
10 July 2009, 11:17 pmPhoenician in a time of Romans:
That’s cheating.
Well, I’m hardly likely to cite the Oxford Style Manual when I keep stuffing up my commas, am I?
10 July 2009, 11:22 pmYorkshire:
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
That’s cheating.
Well, I’m hardly likely to cite the Oxford Style Manual when I keep stuffing up my commas, am I?
Well, I’ll check my Funk & Wagnalls.
10 July 2009, 11:25 pmYorkshire:
Around the corner and on the up side of the world, it’s off to bed at GMT +5
10 July 2009, 11:28 pmDana Pico:
Alas! While it seems like a good idea,
so I guess we can’t make it an official religion!
Moreover, Global Warming lacks two main points required to make it an Offical religion, even if we had such a thing:
- Religious groups in the United States are — unless they are really fringe elements — tax exempt, while the Global Warmingists want to increase our taxes, through the roof; and
- The High Priest of Global Warming flunked out of Divinity School.
11 July 2009, 6:11 amEric:
The Pope of Glowball Warming apparently didn’t do so hot in science and math, either.
11 July 2009, 8:22 amArt Downs:
Socialism and its bastard offspring global warming need to be observed in a religious context in that no deviation from orthodoxy is permitted.
Free enterprise and markets are aspects of human nature rather than something concocted by man in a set of rules.
Socialism may function (often in a religious community) rather well on a small-scale and voluntary basis. Many ‘communes’ of the past were subsidized by (shudder) capitalists with some utopian hopes. Most such experiments failed. The total celibacy of the Shakers was a loser from the start. After the Amana Community got into microwave ovens, they went public. Live and learn, I suppose.
There may be some ‘rugged individualists’ who see any safety net as an open door to raising the red flag. The trick is to distinguish between a safety net and an economically-enervating hammock.
Heavy-handed Socialism produced an automotive gem known as the Trabant. A breakaway socialist state produced the Yugo. A few Yugos were exported and became the source of a lot of humor. The part of Germany that had a more mixed economy built BMWs, Mercedes, and Porsches.
Did any of the domestic admirers (or apologists) for socialism drive a Yugo (or yearn for a Trabbie) as a sign of solidarity?
“Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends?” was part of a popular song of the past. Perhaps it was a hymn of the politics of envy.
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11 July 2009, 9:09 amArt Downs:
“The Pope of Glowball Warming apparently didn’t do so hot in science and math, either.” Eric
Pope Al never took a math class at Harvard and the one “science for dummies” he endured was a virtual overview of middle school general science.
He bombed out of Divinity and Law schools.
One wonders what he learned about agriculture at a luxury suite in the Fairfax Hotel owned by his Maryland cousins (the very good Gores, I might add).
Had there been no Popes named Al beyond Alexander VI, I might have been tempted to give him the appellation of Pope Al VII, but that number was already taken.
Had Billy Mays survived, he might have really made it really big hawking environmental indulgences in loud informercials.
11 July 2009, 9:26 amnk:
Let’s get our terms straight, allright? It’s not Global Warming it’s Climate Change. Gormudz makes parts of the Earth hot and Goriman makes parts of the Earth cold and unless we make the proper sacrifices to each we will be in big trouble.
11 July 2009, 11:05 amYorkshire:
Next Algore will issue a PayPool (carbon credits) Bull
11 July 2009, 11:09 amnk who is in a Zoroastration mood:
Unless they send us redemption, in the form of a young bull[shitter], Obamithra.
11 July 2009, 11:10 amHFlashman:
Interesting that we now have zealots calling science a religion. During the first eight years of this century, those who now scream about socialism abdicated responsibility and qwe had the ripping and shredding of our Rights and freedom. They abdicated economic responsibility and we as a Nation were raped and our accounts emptied by “friends’ of the then administration…leaving us with economic chaos and facing ruination. They abdicated social responsibility and now scream that some poor slob looking for work is a danger…whilst leaving those who hired undocumented workers untouched (just who is the real criminal? The guy looking for a job or the profiteer ignoring American workers and hiring undocumenteds at lower wages?)They abdicated while government grewe faster than ever with untargeted funding, state spending mandates, and federalization of our education system.
The question is not whether climnate change is occurring. It’s been ongoing since this rock first solidified from moltern magma. The question is to what extent has it sped up due to unchecked pollutants spewed into the air, and what will we do to adapt, to slow the pace from unnatural pollutions, and whether we allow the “abdicators” to continue to drive the bus towards the cliff (which they seem hell bent to drive off of) or whether we come to a degree of responsibility and act. Act to have society begin adapting, act to slow the pace of change, act to recognize that polluter welfare cannot continue unless we desire bankruptcy of our social, economic, and security well being.
But…as the poriginal author appears to chant…the abdicators want to be told what to do, to be led and cede to the fdullest extent any responsibility, to not think and act as a free people. They want a free ride. Undeservingly so, but unless they have that free ride, they scream and throw tantrums.
11 July 2009, 12:03 pmThomas Tallis:
Socialism and its bastard offspring global warming need to be observed in a religious context in that no deviation from orthodoxy is permitted.
given that there are many, many different strains of socialism, often in direct conflict with one another, and given that scientists disagree a LOT about the causes & consequences & processes of climate change, you’d think somebody from CPST would say to Mr. Downs: “yeah, there’s really nothing remotely like orthodoxy in either of those areas of thought - where did you get the idea that there was?” but admittedly we would then be denied another of Mr. Downs’s pulled-directly-from-his-warm-posterior thought-blasts
11 July 2009, 1:21 pmRopelight:
I find it a bit too warm in the summer and way too cold in winter. Fall is usually nice for the most part, but there’s often too much wind in early spring.
Can’t we just keep on poluting till we get things averaged out? Then we can worry about carbon and footprints and all that other foolishness.
11 July 2009, 1:25 pmThomas Tallis:
if that joke were carbon it would have turned into a diamond by now - it’s certainly old enough
11 July 2009, 2:51 pmDana Pico:
I was thinking of Global Warming whilst checking out the Weather Channel before going to work this morning — yes, I had to work on Saturday morning
— and saw that Sharon and Gretchen were in for a 100+º day, but here in the Poconos, even now, at 5:29 PM, it’s just in the seventies. It’s cloudy now, so it’ll probably stay in the sixties overnight, but starting tomorrow night, it’s back to the fifties!
11 July 2009, 5:29 pmDana Pico:
Mr Tallis, is that your way of saying that that joke was a gem?
11 July 2009, 5:30 pmEric:
It’s Paradise here in Minnesota, high 70’s, sunny, and low humidity. My brother & wife just did a triathlon this morning, and the weather couldn’t have been better.
PS It’s days like this when I really regret selling my Jet Ski!
11 July 2009, 6:17 pmYorkshire:
Dana Pico:
I was thinking of Global Warming whilst checking out the Weather Channel before going to work this morning — yes, I had to work on Saturday morning — and saw that Sharon and Gretchen were in for a 100+º day, but here in the Poconos, even now, at 5:29 PM, it’s just in the seventies. It’s cloudy now, so it’ll probably stay in the sixties overnight, but starting tomorrow night, it’s back to the fifties!
The Weather World Weenies from Penn State are call for the upper 40’s up your way early in the week for the overnites. This is the way I enjoy summer. Oh, we had a slightly humid day today, but the Cold Front moved through and the temps are heading in the right direction. Might not need the AC again tonight.
11 July 2009, 8:05 pmDana Pico:
Yorkshire wrote:
We don’t even have air conditioning!
11 July 2009, 8:19 pmYorkshire:
Poope Algore 1/2 wants one world governance:
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’ | Climate Depot
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’ Climate Depot Exclusive
Friday, July 10, 2009By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”
“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
11 July 2009, 8:19 pm(read more at the link)
Eric:
Sounds more like a Climate Despot to me!
11 July 2009, 8:50 pmEric:
Make that “Taxman-Malarkey Bill” …
11 July 2009, 8:51 pmThomas Tallis:
Yorkshire I think our mutual friend blubonnet has some exciting info to share with you about reptilians, masons, 9/11 being an inside job, etc., if you’re big on “global governance” paranoia you’ll really dig all this other stuff
11 July 2009, 9:58 pmYorkshire:
Thomas Tallis:
Yorkshire I think our mutual friend blubonnet has some exciting info to share with you about reptilians, masons, 9/11 being an inside job, etc., if you’re big on “global governance” paranoia you’ll really dig all this other stuff
If you notice I have Humor on the list of topics. Reptilians??? New one on me. Masons??? I don’t know the secret handshake. Which reminds me, we have a Masons’ Hall here in town. The piece of land the bought years ago is sloping down away from the road. It always cracked me up that they have “windows” that are bricked up. Well, Burger King built on the property just west of the Hall. But BK built up the slope to be flat with the road. The Masons protested the build up of the land, and the reason was??????? It would ruin their view. Now, what view is there with bricked up windows????
I’m not big on paranoia of Global Governance, but DRUDGE had this utterance from GW Poope Algore 1/2 and tied it to GW. If anyone is paranoid, it’s Poope Algore 1/2.
11 July 2009, 11:02 pmYorkshire:
Just for full disclosure here, the main reason I remain skeptical about GW, is one, I’m just a contrarian at times, and two, the subject of GW was never presented in a way that the average person could grasp the concept and go.
All GW edicts, with lack of discussion were just forced on everyone with a believe it or else attitude. With the science shifting on this every day, the absolutists I can’t take as absolutists. When things change like the “Hockey Stick”, it was just discarded like it never existed, but still the belief system was held that this is real, and you better not question it.
Well, being somewhat contrarian, I question it. Then I just see on DRUDGE a report from Sen Boxer’s office of dire consequences if the Waxman-Malarkey isn’t passed.
Again, a bill with no debate, no discussion, no alternatives, and you are called all kinds of things if you disagree. That works in dictatorships, not in the form of Government we are supposed to have.
11 July 2009, 11:19 pm