Blasphemy and the Green Religion?

Question

If you want to really get a religious fanatic riled up, just mention that you don't buy his version of how many thousand years ago the world was created.

Have you noticed how similar that behavioral phenomenon is to the indictments, accusations, rudeness a person gets from those gentle greenies?

You don't have to deny their global warming God. You only have to say you aren't convinced they're right. You only have to say you'd like to see a better consensus of scientists.

Whenever humans react that way it's usually because they know there's a hole in what they're asserting you can drive a truck through. They react to civil discussion that doesn't accept their premise as though it were carved in stone with virulent hostility.

Just like religious fanatics.

How long do you suppose it will be before they're burning doubters, heretics, people unconvinced, at the stake?

Answer 1

This is a narcissistic quality. The need to be right. Things are black and white. Threre is no grey. If there's any holes in my theory that means it's all wrong. It's not a discussion. It's please validate me. Since much of their self esteem is based on having the right answer, questions and doubts are viewed as personal attacks. Questions and doubts are also threatening to a certain world, a world where I have it all figured out and know what to expect. Uncertainty and doubt are anxiety provoking.
What you are describing is narcissistic, child-like thinking. It affects some people of all creeds.

Answer 2

What a great Idea ,
spoken like a skeptic
because they tend to be religious and can only grasp religious ideas,

Reality baffles them
but still a great suggestion
,
Thank you,

but,

Burning is such a waste of resource ,and so brutish
we should do it in a taste full and dignified manner ,with chanting and pipes may be even tom roms
on an Alter
with the temporary guests wearing white robes

we could have lots of religious parties with all the full moons we get .

,better then bombing societies across the world making everybody angry ,and the Gods would be over the Moon

The remains should be used to compost
the soils destroyed by irresponsible agriculture .

It would remove the strain on Natural resources and make more available for survivers ,

stop expanding populations from deforresting because of settlement and expanding farming

Take the pressure of drink water supplies ,

There would be less need for Wars

We would only sacrifice Enemies of the planet or if we run out of them, enemies of society

And the general public would be much more repectfull towards Nature

Everybody wins

3 cheers for jack

Answer 3

There will never be any burning as you suggest. Your rant is an over-generalization of the worst sort.
You can take my comment as a pat on the back that you have me backed into a corner with a hole in my argument, but you really don't, considering I am skeptical of the causes of GW, but not of the adverse environmental impact of the same pollution attributed to GW.

There are two different arguments concerneing GW.
#1 pollution must be dealt with, and more sustainable habits developed for the protection of our environment.

vs #2 that because pollution isn't causing GW than we shouldn't worry about it, never mind the fact that it causes major impacts in other areas of our environment.

Which argument sound more sound and reasonable to you?
just because some folks can't explain what is going on in the environment, does not mean the pollution attributed to GW isn't damaging it.
And just because people tend to get irritated with misinformation directed not at just global warming theories, but also at anti-polltuion environmentalists in general, that doesn't mean you have them back into anywhere.
Just means they are gettign sick and tired of repeating themselves answering the same questions basedon misinformation over and over.

Answer 4

Don't question the "Green" televangelists who like the other televangelists profess their faith for profit? The only "green" they care about is the folding kind. And the lemmings who follow the fashions because they have no life of their own are enabling this farce.

Fame, fortune and power are what they crave.

Luckily it won't be more than 10 years before "GLOBAL COOLING" comes back in fashion. Then we can burn all those "global warmingers" at the stake to keep warm.

Answer 5

Actually, it's the skeptic who resemble the people who think the Earth was created 6000 years ago. Both groups have to ignore mountains of scientific data on the other side:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
with hundreds of peer reviewed references, and summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

and the opinion of most all of the scientific community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab). I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts at the meetings that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

Dr. James Baker - NOAA

Please let me know if any of that was rude or insulting. Do these guys (surely not 'greenies") insult you?

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives Tuesday to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

Pat Robertson (very conservative Christian leader) “It is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to do something on fossil fuels.”

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

Answer 6

Funny you don't see yourself as the same.....your need to be right is just as great as theirs.....being the antithesis only fuels the whole debate and is really kids throwing sand in the sand box.

Answer 7

That is a very general statement, not all people react that way.