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‘We need a supernatural being to punish eco-sinners’
Spiked ^ | 08 September 2009 | Nathalie Rothschild

Posted on 09/08/2009 9:11:15 PM PDT by Lorianne

The flurry of commentary in response to Lord May’s speech on climate change revealed greens’ authoritarian desire to chastise ungreen heretics.___ According to reports from the British Science Association Festival, taking place this week in Guildford, England, Lord May, president of the association, urged religious leaders to take a frontline role in convincing people to combat climate change. Apparently, speaking just before he made his presidential address, Lord May asserted that ‘religion had historically played a major role in policing social behaviour through the notion of a supernatural “enforcer”, a system that could help unify communities to tackle environmental challenges’ (1).

According to a second news report, Lord May suggested ‘religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again’. ‘A supernatural punisher may be part of the solution’, he continued (2). A third news report quoted Lord May as claiming that ‘punishment was much more effective if it came from “some all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful deity that controls the world”, rather than from an individual person’ (3).

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1 posted on 09/08/2009 9:11:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

The wages of eco-sin is a tenth of a degree of perceived heat, notwithstanding that it’s getting colder. Off with your carbon heads!


2 posted on 09/08/2009 9:14:30 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Lorianne

Well according to the Bible, God is going to make things a lot worse, including killing everything in the ocean, and over a 1/3 of land animals.


3 posted on 09/08/2009 9:16:49 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Lorianne

This sounds like Raymond Khoury’s latest book “The Sign”. I wouldn’t recommend it (a bunch of liberal drivel) so I’ll give away the plot. Basically some rich liberal eco nuts decide this very premise, to save the earth, they need for people to have a religious moment so they use some advanced technology to create ‘signs’ all over the world and to win over some religious figures (creating voices in their head). The twist is that the main antagonist really wants to destroy all religion as well by getting people all worked up over the ‘sign’ then revealing it as a fraud- after using it to manipulate himself into ultimate power of course. Of course, the poor ‘eco liberal’ was a victim as well who only wanted the best for the world in his actions (barf).


4 posted on 09/08/2009 9:17:35 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Lorianne

Uh oh, EcoGod is pointing his green finger at me...I better shape up or I’ll be damned to an eternity of separating plastic recyclables from paper, driving around Hell in a Smart Car and lecturing other eco-damned souls about the horrendous Hadean Warming going on.


5 posted on 09/08/2009 9:19:49 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Lorianne

send your supernateral enforcer, i’ll kill him!


6 posted on 09/08/2009 9:20:11 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Lorianne
The god of the green cult probably looks something like this:


7 posted on 09/08/2009 9:21:11 PM PDT by NotSoModerate (Report dissenters to snitch@whitehouse.gov for a $4,500 tax credit)
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To: NotSoModerate
...or this..


8 posted on 09/08/2009 9:22:35 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

That’s SICK! The last thing I need to see before going to bed! LOL!


9 posted on 09/08/2009 9:25:55 PM PDT by NotSoModerate (Report dissenters to snitch@whitehouse.gov for a $4,500 tax credit)
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To: Lorianne

“If Global Warming did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it” - Voltaire


10 posted on 09/08/2009 9:28:15 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (No health care reform without TORT reform!)
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To: Lorianne

“Bless me Father, for I have sinned, I did not recycle this week and used a phosphate based detergent in my dishwasher....”


11 posted on 09/08/2009 9:31:37 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT ("Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow"C.Coolidge)
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To: Lorianne
According to reports from the British Science Association Festival, taking place this week in Guildford, England, Lord May, president of the association, urged religious leaders to take a frontline role in convincing people to combat climate change.

Waitaminnit, these guys are asking to be our friends after mocking the opening verses of our bible? No way Jose.

12 posted on 09/08/2009 9:39:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Proud Sarah-Bot.)
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To: Lorianne
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13 posted on 09/08/2009 9:53:18 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Lorianne

Eco-Marxism is a religion in need of a God to complete the cult system. A pagan system of human sacrifice already exists with abortion. Why not elevate abortion to a public divine liturgy complete with the cannibalism of the sacrificial victim? Why not revert to total paganism and worship the Sun as God? Why not Zer0? This is your true religion. Why not make it real?


14 posted on 09/08/2009 10:48:56 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: ansel12

Is that a statuette of Serena Williams in another one of her self-designed costumes?


15 posted on 09/08/2009 10:50:38 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Rembrandt

I think it is the goddess of tofu and alfalfa sprouts.


16 posted on 09/08/2009 11:02:51 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
I think it is the goddess of tofu and alfalfa sprouts.

Blasphemer!! Heretic!! It is the godess of the Holy Three, to wit, tofu, alfalfa sprouts, and ARUGULA!!

the infowarrior

17 posted on 09/08/2009 11:14:35 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: infowarrior

I’ll probably pay for leaving out the Arugula. Earth goddesses can be such B*tches.


18 posted on 09/08/2009 11:18:00 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Lorianne

But the Almighty Father, calling on the gods to
witness and him above all who had given the chariot,
that unless he bring aid all things will perish by a
grievous doom, mounts on high to the top of heaven,
whence it is his wont to spread the clouds over the
broad lands, whence he stirs his thunders and flings
his hurling bolts. But now he has no clouds wherewith
to overspread the earth, nor any rains to send down
from the sky. He thundered, and, balancing in his
right hand a bolt, flung it from beside the ear at the
charioteer and hurled him from the car and from life
as well, and thus quenched fire with blasting fire.

Ovid


19 posted on 09/09/2009 12:08:49 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Lorianne; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

20 posted on 09/09/2009 12:59:47 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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