If you are convinced or inclined to lean towards the conceptual new religion known as Global Warming or Climate Change you may be asking yourself, “what about the already established religions then?”. Well, logically as predicted they will merge along with the new propaganda stream because it would be to their advantage. Why let the brainwashing be monopolized by a single group if you can try and get a bit of that for yourself without having to do all the work. The Sydney Morning Herald has an article, “Churches focus on earthly matters”, which reports on this.

Churches have funded and supported “Big Bang” theories because it was possible to fit into their doctrine. And seeing as how evolution could not be incorporated the solution was to offer creationism as a quasi-science in order to get it into the classrooms. Global Warming on the other hand poses a more neutral ground where the propaganda machines are running on high octane from many different sources. A good time for any established religion to jump on the bandwagon because when they can turn something to their advantage they will, like for example embracing science:

Climate change offers an opportunity for the Catholic Church to spread the faith and bring about a reconciliation between the “old enemies” of religion and science according to a leading Australian Catholic thinker on global warming.

Bishop Chris Toohey told a Vatican-sponsored conference on climate change last month that deep suspicions held by some Catholics towards scientists should come to an end “as a matter of principle”.

He has urged global churches to set up a body akin to Australia’s Catholic Earthcare, of which he is chairman, as a forum to listen to “good and responsible scientists” and make the church aware of the “best of what science has to say”.

“The general population assumes that the church and scientists are enemies; opponents like two prize fighters waiting to have it out in the ring. This is not true. It is a supposition which has its roots in the days of Galileo and subsequently the age of Enlightenment,” he told the Rome forum.

And of course, as we’ve been saying, Global Warming and Climate Change, while absolutely natural and real, is turning into a form of religion, complete with zealots and dedicated followers, some of them easily labeled as “extremists”. It’s clear the established religions recognize that by inviting experts on the spiritual sides of the Climate Change debate:

Sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the forum gathered 80 experts representing the scientific, political, economic and spiritual sides of the climate-change debate.

Another reason for established religions to get involved is, of course, to merge into the debate and oppose idiots like Pianka who have publicly stated they prefer to start mass depopulation of humans on this earth, or the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society that considers us to be a virus. So perhaps it’s not entirely bad for a different brand of brainwash experts to merge into the stream, but we have to consider their intentions for doing so:

But Cardinal Renato Martino, council president, made it clear the Vatican was not interested in debates that would limit population growth to save the environment. He warned of the danger of “modern forms of idolatory of nature that lose sight of man”.

As could be expected, however, the church also decided to play their “do as I say, not as I do” card by accusing the Global Warming movement of exactly the same things that the churches and religions have been doing since their inception:

By contrast, the environment movement was perceived as negative and finger-pointing, and harmed its cause by “blaming humanity for the destruction of the planet”, Toohey said. “Telling people things are all bad, all of the time, and we are to blame, is quite simply bad psychology. This makes people feel disempowered, demoralised and fatalistic.”

And if it wasn’t bad enough to be bombarded with the Global Warming religious chants of the Al Gore Flock of Followers and Climate Change Deciples now we can enjoy having the established churches call us “sinners” for not believing their quasi-science riddled with intentional errors:

Last December the leaders of 16 religious faiths signed a statement calling on Australians to become responsible stewards of God’s creation and immediately tackle climate change. Invoking Genesis, three Christian denominations - Anglican, Greek Orthodox and Baptist - declare the willful destruction of Earth a sin in a document published by the Climate Institute.

Of course we don’t want to generalize too much because there are also churchmen who do not subscribe to the doctrine of Global Warming and are more careful about taking sides on the ongoing debate:

But not all churchmen are converts to the climate cause. At Easter the Sydney Catholic archbishop, Cardinal George Pell, acknowledged uneasiness over the climate but said Jesus was not an “insurance broker” meant to protect the world from trouble and had nothing to say on global warning.

“We are told El Nino has disappeared but the drought is not over in most parts,” Pell said. “And we have the threat of global warming. It is to be hoped the one true God will accept all those carbon credits.”

Bishop Toohey acknowledged internal opposition to the church’s involvement on climate change. The issue was considered either too political or the province of science and “greenies” and not the work of the church, whose job was to preach and celebrate the sacraments.

Whether the god, regardless of which one believes in, will accept carbon credits remains an open question. A more scientific certainty, however, is that those who are generating huge profits from the carbon credits scam certainly must be feeling like gods.