Climate Change? Nahhh ...

[doctorquant]

Not zealotry, nooooooo ...

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Cool. You found some.

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

 

[doctorquant]

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

"If you're not with us you're agin' us!"

 

[Regan MacNeil]

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?

 

[doctorquant]

What does trying to prove it's a religion (it's not) accomplish for you?

@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.

What do you win?

Your continued admiration, of course.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

@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.

You sure it's not Alma's admiration? I like you just fine.

 

[doctorquant]

You sure it's not Alma's admiration? I like you just fine.

On the "@doctorquant is the shirt!" bandwagon, the more the merrier!

 

[Alma]

@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.

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.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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.

Democracy is a religion! Capitalism is a religion!

 

[Batman]

"If you're not with us you're agin' us!"

Heretic!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Religion!

 

[Alma]

Democracy is a religion! Capitalism is a religion!

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