Why Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming

American Thinker ^ | 20 Nov, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

[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.

[rhinohunter]

Surprised he didn’t mentioned the Vatican — which bolsters his premise more than any other government.

[No name given]

It is. Any religion that does not have Jesus Christ as the one true God is by definition a false religion.

[Salman]

The more interesting story would be why so many churches have done the same.

[nicollo]

The author misunderstands “divine rule,” which means he, like most Americans, misunderstands the “all men are created equal” claim in the Declaration.

The “divine” in the rule comes of the birthright, which is why royal lineage is so important to kingdoms and empires — and so frequently fought over across history.

When the Declaration states that “all men are created equal,” it negates a sovereign birthright, while not asserting any other kind of equality. “Born equal” means that all men have an inherent equal right to self-rule, which the Founders interpret as best expressed through democratic-republican principles and processes.

Not that the author is wrong to say that global warming and the supposed “science” that asserts it is abused as a rationale or even form of governance, but it’s always worth clarifying what “divine rule” and the Declaration’s assertion of “born equal” actually mean.

[MtnClimber]

Thanks, good points.