1. Welcome to SportsJournalists.com, a friendly forum for discussing all things sports and journalism.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register for a free account to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Access to private conversations with other members.
    • Fewer ads.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Riptide, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Not zealotry, nooooooo ...

     
  2. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Cool. You found some.

    Beating the drum on behalf of climate change denial is a weird look for you, but it’s your call.
     
  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    "If you're not with us you're agin' us!"
     
  4. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Not really, but what would you say you’re looking to accomplish here? What does trying to prove it’s a religion (it’s not) accomplish for you? What do you win?
     
  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    @Alma has been widely ridiculed for saying "it's a religion." Do I think he's right? Well, no, probably not. But he ain't that wrong.

    Your continued admiration, of course.
     
  6. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    You sure it’s not Alma’s admiration? I like you just fine.
     
  7. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    On the "@doctorquant is the shit!" bandwagon, the more the merrier!
     
    Regan MacNeil likes this.
  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    It’s not a religion to believe in climate change.

    But the people fronting Greta Thunberg are either religious zealots or deeply, deeply cynical people. Certainly Thunberg is religious.

    And when climate change orthodoxy becomes an all-encompassing theory that explains all the good nations and bad nations, the good and bad people of the world, well, it’s absolutely, IMO, a religion. It’s a theory of morality. That it happens to exist this side of the Enlightenment doesn’t mean much; what’s “worshipped”functions as religion.

    I can appreciate that I have a broader definition of religion than most people, and I can also appreciate that to label something a “religion” - when highly educated folks can have disdain for religion as emotional, childish messiness they tend to think they’re above - is intellectually offensive.
     
    Batman likes this.
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Democracy is a religion! Capitalism is a religion!
     
  10. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Heretic!
     
    doctorquant likes this.
  11. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Capitalism surely could be, though it lacks the all-for-one principle of other political orthodoxies.
     
Draft saved Draft deleted

Share This Page