Climate Change? Nahhh ...

oof

 

If "we're a handful of decades away from an uninhabitable planet" ain't religion ... it's damn close.

 

Paleontologists say the brontosaurus made the Kardashians look humble.

 

Eons of natural evolution and climate cycles. 150 years of altering the environment. Tomehto, tomahto

 

The dinosaurs - generally more modest in every regard, at every income level - were certainly better about restricting their high-altitude jet travel.

 

They certainly weren't lacking in empathy.

 

Not everything is. This, though...heck, it even has an apocalypse.

And it's a totalizing theory, too. It explains all weather events, all weather events explain it, there's a salvation (of the planet) to it...it's a kind of religion.

 

The eschatology of climate change

https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/climate-crisis-secular-eschatology

 

Tell that to the pterodactyl.

 

___________ as religion

Is Science a Religion?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0953946814565984?journalCode=scea

How economics became a religion | John Rapley

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/03/religion-of-money.html

Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?

Capitalism as Religion (Benjamin, 1921)

https://www.tcd.ie/Economics/assets/pdf/SER/2012/Capitalism as Religion.pdf

School Shootings Confirm That Guns Are the Religion of the Right

Has the gun become a sacred object in America?

Technology as a Religion - Steve Sammartino



Art as Religion (Published 1989)

Nature Religion | Encyclopedia.com

Football is the religion which fills the empty lives of the irreligious

The NFL Is a Fundamentalist Church. And the Anthem Is Its Worship Song

https://theotherjournal.com/2010/10/22/gods-behaving-badly-celebrity-as-a-kind-of-religion-2/

Why Mathematics Isn’t Much Different From Religion

 

A lot of those things aren’t actually religions.

This…kind of is.