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Why Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming
American Thinker ^ | 20 Nov, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 11/20/2023 5:25:25 AM PST by MtnClimber

For millennia, monarchs ruled by some form of divine right. If not asserting god-like powers, they claimed to be acting as God’s emissaries here on Earth. You can imagine the effect this had on devout peoples of any faith. How could the great unwashed masses dare question any royal’s divinely inspired orders? This paradigm kept government authorities towering over those they ruled.

The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution crashed through the walls of absolute monarchies and reoriented political systems on the foundations of natural law, religious toleration, constitutional government, and individual liberty.

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Unsurprisingly, both of these intellectual revolutions weakened the innate authority upon which governments relied. Stripped of any divine pretense for exerting power over their subjects, governments have been attempting to justify their existence ever since.

From this perspective, it is easy to see why those with power today have gone all-in on “global warming” fearmongering. By replacing God with the apocalyptic threat of “climate change,” governments have effectively created a “higher power” that they exclusively control. Instead of beseeching citizens to follow God’s will here on Earth, governments beseech them to “follow the science.” The “science,” for its part, is treated as some kind of infallible religious scripture that can never be questioned. It doesn’t matter that climate models have been wildly incorrect, that research has been fabricated, that sea levels are not rising, or that the proposed “solutions” for manipulating naturally dynamic climates will accomplish nothing. Governments have decreed, “The science is settled,” and once the “science” has spoken, no lowly heretic may disagree.

In truth, the “global warming” con is about three things: gods, money, and control.

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1 posted on 11/20/2023 5:25:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Many have observed that “Climate Change” operates like a false religion.


2 posted on 11/20/2023 5:25:33 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Many have observed that “Climate Change” operates like a false religion
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It’s the end of the world (again)

Video 1983. NBC News warns of Catastrophe climate change by the 1990’s
https://rumble.com/v3sxocp-1983.-nbc-news-warns-of-catastrophe-climate-change-by-the-1990s.html


3 posted on 11/20/2023 5:27:03 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: MtnClimber

“…they claimed to be acting as God’s emissaries here on Earth.“

An upside to that was they’d rise and fight when they thought they should and when or if wars or battles didn’t go their way they accepted Gods judgment.


4 posted on 11/20/2023 5:31:34 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: MtnClimber
“Nature” is the replacement that Liberals have chosen over God.

It's been long time coming... if you recall the ridiculous extent to which people like Jack Cousteau have been lionized!!

5 posted on 11/20/2023 5:38:31 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: MtnClimber

Very true.

Good read. Thank you.


6 posted on 11/20/2023 5:38:36 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: MtnClimber

When people kick God out, something always comes in to fill the void.


7 posted on 11/20/2023 5:39:12 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: MtnClimber

Climate change is the greatest financial con job in history. The wealth transfer from the productive segment of the population (present & future) is enormous, and will only get worse until the real truth is presented to the public. This is exactly what RICO legislation was created to address. Unfortunately, the people and organizations responsible for enforcing and prosecuting these laws are part of the scam.


8 posted on 11/20/2023 5:39:58 AM PST by Rlsau1
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To: MtnClimber

Why? Because they cannot control God or the climate, but they think selling the visions of “Bureaucraps” is better. To accomplish that they must replace God for a false religion.

Just like the crap we were fed about the Jab being better than natural immunity. The Lie is Satan’s primary tool.


9 posted on 11/20/2023 5:41:25 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Rlsau1

Amen


10 posted on 11/20/2023 5:42:48 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: MtnClimber

“By replacing God with the apocalyptic threat of “climate change,” governments have effectively created a “higher power” that they exclusively control.”

So will this give the elites controlling the governments now the opportunity to enact their plan to depopulate the poor planet in order to save it?


11 posted on 11/20/2023 5:49:12 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber
Government is their god. "Climate Change" is just one of their dogmas.

"When men chose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything." - Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton

12 posted on 11/20/2023 5:49:34 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

I call BS

Climate Change is watered down Global Warming and is the present version of Chicken Little alarm over the sky falling

It is mostly perpetrated by poorly educated men trying to appear smart


13 posted on 11/20/2023 5:55:22 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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Climate Change is their way of hedging their bets.

Basically anything you do affects the climate, so everything must be controlled.


14 posted on 11/20/2023 5:57:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Mother Erf is their new deity.

All things must be done to server her.....................


15 posted on 11/20/2023 5:58:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Climate Change is their way of hedging their bets.

Basically anything you do affects the climate, so everything must be controlled.

It is their way to to justify whatever they want to do.

It is their way to justify clamping down on dissent, and exerting more power than allowed under Constitutional constraints.

It is a way to propagandize people to act against their own interests, by using the scare tactic - If you don't do what I say, the world will be destroyed!

16 posted on 11/20/2023 6:03:58 AM PST by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

It’s because God doesn’t pay as well as does the political “science” of “climate change” ... certainly not as well in terms of power to be gained and money to be made.


17 posted on 11/20/2023 6:10:00 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Bible said this would happen.


18 posted on 11/20/2023 6:22:32 AM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: MtnClimber

Global Warming is Communism.

You cannot name a single solution to Global Warming that does not increase government control and reduce individual liberty.

I thereby perceive a design.


19 posted on 11/20/2023 6:32:40 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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Environmentalism, including global warming climate change, is the new religion of the secular left. Rachel Carson is its prophet and abortion is its sacrament.
20 posted on 11/20/2023 6:40:17 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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