{"id":3436,"date":"2009-11-27T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2009-11-27T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:03:34","slug":"the-church-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-church-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather, in the course of your (fine) <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3429\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on Syncopation and Thanksgiving, you reject the\u00a0notion &#8220;that global warming theory represents some atavistic religious impulse.&#8221; In one sense, of course, you are quite right to do so. The idea that we might be seeing evidence (the current rather tricky\u00a0pause notwithstanding) of anthropogenic global warming is a not unreasonable scientific hypothesis. And it deserves to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The theory is one thing, but the creed is another. Many proponents of the\u00a0premise that AGW is real have chosen to pitch their ideas, and many of their followers have chosen to believe them, in ways that rely on faith more than reason, and which do indeed look very much like a religion, complete with notions of sinners and the righteous, elaborate displays of self-abasement and moral preening, and, of course, the thrill of the End Times. Needless to say, it&#8217;s yet another reminder of how widespread a human characteristic religious belief really is.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,4929149,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warmergate<\/a> scandal-with its intriguing suggestions of sharp practice within AGW&#8217;s &#8216;priesthood&#8217;-only underlines the similarities of this new cult with the more established religions so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/church.leaders.call.for.action.on.climate.change\/24650.htm\" target=\"_blank\">indulgently cheering it on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather, in the course of your (fine) post on Syncopation and Thanksgiving, you reject the\u00a0notion &#8220;that global warming theory represents some atavistic religious impulse.&#8221; In one sense, of course, you are quite right to do so. The idea that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-church-of-climate-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15,21,13],"tags":[397,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}