Global Warming as religion
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I’m going with the idea that these are intended as gag gifts for climate deniers, but who knows? After all, we were treated to this bit of lunacy last fall by New York’s Union Seminary:
And as Ed Dricoll points out,
While Nietzsche assured the Jurassic “woke” class of the late 19th century that “God is dead,” most of the branches of the “Progressivism” that followed are forms of a substitute religion to fill the void, including both radical environmentalism, and even socialist health care. As the late Tom Wolfe wrote in his epochal 1976 article, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” “It is entirely possible that in the long run historians will regard the entire New Left experience as not so much a political as a religious episode wrapped in semi military gear and guerrilla talk.”
