The Climate Change Religion

By Cliff Connelly, WorldNet Daily

The fervor of the climate-change cataclysm crowd is often rightfully compared with religiosity. As the late Michael Crichton observed, radical environmentalism's tenets run parallel with foundational Judeo-Christian traditions: "There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all." In other words, we have poisoned pristine Earth through technological advance and will ultimately be punished by Mother Nature (rather than Father God) for our brazen selfishness.

Another climate change skeptic, Australian geologist Ian Plimer, recently made direct comparisons between the global warming faithful and "fundamentalist" creationists, "who, when challenged, become quite vicious and irrational." This statement gave me pause, because although I largely agree with Plimer's (and Crichton's) skepticism of warming "science" and its religious undercurrents, I see little evidence today of Christians becoming "vicious and irrational" about anything – including creation – despite being the targets of a never-ceasing onslaught from the secular establishment in the media, judiciary and academia.

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