Posted on 06/29/2013 1:12:26 AM PDT by neverdem
I recently attended a 3-day science policy conference sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The AGU is an association of 62,000 scientists who study the Earth. Although the conference was allegedly about science policy, it resembled a cross between a Scientology rally and a workshop for lobbyists from the Mohair Council of America.
The euphemisms for lobbying by people who aren't supposed to be lobbying are "communication" and "outreach." The AGU believes, in a secular way, that God is on their side and the reason why they are being ignored, and not being given enough money, is that they...
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What we have is an obsession with the evil of carbon dioxide -- a carbon cult.
The great majority of people who are members of the AGU are interested in science, not in a new religion centered on carbon. They have not woken up to the fact that their organization has been infiltrated by a carbon cult.
The carbon cult formulation does explain a lot. Chesterton's insight -- "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything" -- seems relevant in this discussion. Compared to traditional religion, the carbon cult is naive and emotionally thin.
Missionaries for a well-organized religion are intensely practical and often extremely diligent. Much of the science of linguistics has been created not by professors, but by Christian missionaries who want to learn the languages of illiterate peoples so that they can spread the gospel and translate the Bible. Of course, they also have to devise an alphabet and teach the people to read the newly translated Bible. Thus you have an example of the civilizing influence of Christianity.
What is the civilizing influence of missionaries who want to take practical sources of energy away from poor peoples?...
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>> The AGU is an association of 62,000 scientists who study the Earth.
The root from which the bell clangs.
when they stop believing in God, they will then believe in anything BUT God.
Proverbs 2:6
The carbon cult. What these buffoons don’t understand is that there is something called a natural carbon cycle which scrubs CO2 from the atmosphere. Nevermind that they are betraying the trees they pretend to worship by trying to ban the very air they breathe.
LOL! Talk about your mixed metaphors.
” It matters not how straight the gate
How crimed with punishment the scroll
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
Invictus, Chesterton I wonder where he is
One meteor strike and the athiests will be praying to god.
>> “One meteor strike and the athiests will be praying to god.” <<
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No, they’ll be cursing him even louder than they are now.
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