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Human beings apparently have a need to believe, whether they believe it or not.
As one who believes that all sentient beings (God’s creation) have a God-shaped vacuum in their souls, I also believe that filling it with liberalism or man-made Global Warming is far more dangerous than filling it with man-made religion. For all the long, sordid, history of atrocities performed … “in the name of God” through various “churches” … far worse have been committed in the name of “equality” … through “governments”. Far, far, more mountains of skulls have been piled-up by “benevolent” governments than the very worst of Old Testament-styled religious purges.
A sea change of religious Reformation took place when writing and learning was was made available by Gutenberg’s moveable type. The presses started humming, and mankind emerged from the Dark Ages. Every man and woman could read and interpret God’s words for themselves, unfiltered by a Central authoritarian church. Both religion AND science expanded and improved.
Now it seems as though the AGW’s True Believers are launching a sort of Reverse Reformation where the Presses are being attacked for disseminating Truth. There is no more tolerance for independent exploration of scientific Truth. Now the acolytes of AGW insist upon Central Authoritarian dissemination and interpretation of all “Truth”. The fanatical AGW’ists are bent on creating a neo- church-state reminiscent of the deadliest and most corrupt governments of the Dark Ages. A church-state where “heretics” were routinely beheaded for challenging “authority”.
Mankinds soul can ONLY be filled by The Creator … not by men or their malignant “religious” constructs. AGW is doomed to FAILure … although there may yet be mountains of skulls left in its wake.

My armchair theory on the reason behind AGW fanaticism:
1. Humans are shortsighted. Solving next centuries problems isn’t something we generally do.
2. AGW is an unpleasant thing. It’s easier to just believe everything will work out.
3. Extremely powerful groups with means and motivation to sway public opinion against AGW for financial gain.
These three things make public opinion of global warming extremely fragile. Therefore many people tend to take a zero tolerance approach. I’m sure most are aware that AGW isn’t a certainty, but saying there’s a 30% chance we’re headed towards annihilation just doesn’t have the same impact with the masses of materialistic narcissists.

Hi Andrew. Respectfully, my answers to your points are:
1) I disagree. There are still many believers in the idea that a stitch in time saves nine, a local bake-sale can help reduce the deficit, and that when they personally recycle that it will help make for a cleaner tomorrow. When the personal cost in low, most of us will do what we think is the right thing because we like the good feeling of “I’m making a difference”.
2) Agreed that AGW could be a terrible thing, but anything up to 4 degree C increase would result in equal or improved world economics according to the alarmist’s studies (the Stern report). Only if the worst case comes true is there a large downside. Reality is diverging from the models, so the “do nothing” case is looking better and better because the forecast thermogeddon is looking to be less and less likely to occur.
3) I disagree. The US alone spends over $5 billion a year in studying global warming, its affects, and how to mitigate it. The highest price “denialist” price tag that has been found is Exxon-Mobil spending $25 million over many years. The big money, and the big subsidies, is on the side of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. If big money is a corrupting influence, then how many will $5 billion a year buy? Remember, if there’s nothing dangerous to the human race that requires study at this level, then all those nice, juicy grants go away.
If, on item 3, you’re referring to companies that want to be allowed to stay in business then I think you’re suggesting that the current government, whoever they may be, should have license to completely change the economy for their own pet beliefs and that those who try to work in that economy should not be able to say anything about it. Should the government try to legislate morality (right and wrong at a moral level) or should they be libertarian about it? If libertarian, then your question (as asked) doesn’t make sense to me.

Well said Kenji.

How weird to read neoneocon again – I stopped going there when she went gaga against Donald last year – once, when i commented she accused me of being in some nefarious blog hacking thingy.
Me, a mere housewife in the Cariboo !

From NME666 and “just ask 666 about that one” one has to assume YOU believe in 666.

Religion..?? AGW..?/
Yea, when you have supposed “top Scientific Minds” demanding (not just suggesting mind you), actually demanding that any and all who do not BELIEVE, Deniers as they call us, that we must be sent to re-education camps.!
Yea I’d call that RELIGION of a style reminiscent of the Inquisition….and of the NAZI’s.
The Science in my opinion is in its infancy and the outright arrogance of those who suggest it is settled goes to show how completely out of “scientific” touch they really are.
….and no one ever talks about the SUN…why is that I wonder..??

Well said, as was Neo-Neocon’s article, even if she is a Trump hater.

Will never understand the atheist/secular obsession with 666. It’s like the 19 year old stoned basement dweller coughing into his xbox headset that uses 420 in his username. At least rare Pepes and hand symbols require effort to create.

here here. I fondly ponder if William Tyndale has a place of honour in that Great Place of Honour.

Revelation 13:18 (KJV)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Copied and pasted from The Wycliffe Bible commentary:
18. The concluding verse of this chapter, in which the number of the beast is revealed as 666, has given rise to a multitude of interpretations, and to a vast literature. Whole books have been written on this one text. Luther erred in thinking that this is a chronological statement. Adding 666 to the year 1000 gave him a.d. 1666, a year when nothing of prophetic significance occurred. Many have tried to identify this person by discovering names the numerical sum of whose letters is 666. In our language, e.g., X equals 10, L equals 50, and C equals 100. There are similar equivalents for letters in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. Some have believed, then, that this number so translated refers to the first century Caesar, Nero; others interpret it as Lateinos, meaning, “the Latin One.” I think we need go no further than to recognize that six is the number of fallen man and thus of incompleteness, and that 666 is the trinity of six. Even in this passage there is a demonic trinity—Satan, the beast out of the earth (Antichrist, v. 11), and the beast out of the sea (the false prophet, v. 1). (For a tabulation of various interpretations of these two beasts, see Charles Maitland: The Apostles’ School of Prophetic Interpretation [London, 1849], p. 329.)
(there’s more)
Too many experts disagree on that one – I’ll wait and see.

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