As our society has become more secular the long-standing bastions of matters spiritual, our churches, have struggled to remain relevant to the ordinary people. It has in many ways been a triumph for materialism. Then along came the new Warminista faith. Under it’s doctrine our sins were nothing like the parochial matters that generations of Christians worried and obsessed about. No longer does it particularly matter what consenting adults did with their genitals (just about anything goes). Acquisitive greed is celebrated as “making good”. Marriages have a much shorter use by date and dishonesty is to be understood and guilt for even the venal sins like murder is to be absolved and forgiven. In essence we have a morality vacuum.
Well Nature abhors a vacuum and it is into this void that the Warministas have gleefully stepped, delighted to play on the need to assuage the guilt that comfortable and affluent people feel for their lifestyle.
German churches repent for green sins in bid to cut carbon footprint
And God said: “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis). And the vicar saw the light, and dimmed it (Instructions from the ecclesiastical environmental management committee).
As Germany’s Christian churches go green, Sunday service is becoming chillier and darker. Shocked by the revelation that church buildings are responsible for an annual 18 million tonnes of carbon emissions — about 3 per cent of the energy-related total in Germany — religious leaders are cracking down on prodigal parishes.
Churches that achieve a big reduction in their carbon footprint receive a special label of approval, the so-called Green Cockerel.
Vicars have already begun proudly displaying the symbol in the hope that it will attract environmentally sensitive worshippers.
In the Middle ages those with guilty consciences for their sins used to be able to buy papal indulgences , a sort of “get out of hell free card” to allow them to escape the consequences of their sin. Now “eco-sinners” can take that flight to the overseas holiday and purchase absolution in the form of “Carbon Credits” which do not actually remove the Carbon dioxide at all. Or they can preform an ongoing act of penance in advance by travelling to work by public transport believing that this then allows them to “sin against the planet ” by taking periodic trips around the globe in a jet pane because they are still doing their bit for the environment as they are no worse, or even marginally better than the unbeliever who drives a car to work.
It is no surprise that the ever adaptable Christian church should want to try to woo back these believers in the message, of such Prophets as AL Gore and Tim Flannery, to seek to use the issues that concern Warminstas to get them back into the pews of their churches. Maybe they will succeed but in our secular world where it is ever harder to sell a notion of hell-fire and damnation in the afterlife that most people only have the most superficial belief in, when the Warministas are selling a message of hell-fire and damnation in this world in the very near future.
it is all about the wages of fear Comrades
Filed under: Air travel and safety, Carbon Trading, Ethical questions, Germany, Global Warming, God bothering, Green Hypocrites, Living with Nature, Petrol Head Heaven | Tagged: Carbon credits, Christian church, Green Cockerel
The sermon has been given!
And now a prayer….
All bow to the doctrine of his divineness, xxxxxx, the new Jesus of the denalist faith.
Not to forget Guru Bolta and Archbishop Timmy.
They are all powerful and will prevail over teh ‘warmanists’, who will fail to undermine the divine powers of our Lord xxxxxxx.
All hail the ‘cooling’ (since 1998)
Amen (not a women)
(With due recognition to Grods for identifying xxxxxxxxxx as a true messiah… well, Ed made up the name).
Where do you find this xxxxxxxxxl you ask?
Look my sons and daughters, he is all around you……
Where’s Iain?
Just back form the movies
Craigy,
you sound like you must be in yer cups mate and you should be mindful of just how bad that is for your liver .
Iain, when I read nonsense like this, it just adds to my growing suspicion that you’re really a repressed Catholic. You claim to be an atheist but here you are decrying the ‘moral vacuum’ of secularism; you slam GW as a ‘faith’ but you rarely if ever criticise any other religion (except Islam, of course, which you pounce on at any opportunity). You wouldn’t denounce the confessional as a screen for paedophiles, you’re politically right-wing and essentially pro-life.
You know what they say… if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, etc. Are you heading down for Mass this weekend?
If you are going, don’t forget confession tomorrow afternoon Iain, otherwise no communion for you.
I wonder what Iain saw at the movies? Is ‘The Passion of the Christ’ still running in Qld?
Mark
I am a life long atheist but unlike some who have began their faith journey as a believer I don’t hate or deride those who are still believers.
I am, like many atheists, fascinated by the nature of religious belief and it is that which informs my writing about the Warministas after all what student of religion would not be keen to watch the genesis of a new religious movement?
Jason
Although I have attended Mass a few times in my life the last time was about thirty years ago for the funeral of a dear friend and I have never either taken communion nor have I made my confession.
As for the movie Well I went and saw “The Mummy 3″ fast paced nonsense with truly amazing CGI effects.
*yawn*
another perfect example of Iain’s ideological denialism – somebody wake me up when he changes tune?
PKD
In this instance it is you who is in denial, a denial that the belief in global warming is the central faith position of so many “Greenies” and that their belief is not substantiated by empirical science .
Bah!
The fact the scientific community spent many decades researching and basing AGW trends – observed (now), analysed (for the past) and predicted (for the future) all using accepted scientific practices simply shows its YOU in denial.
The evidence exists and has been presented its just obviously ‘not empirical enough’ or whatever the excuse happens to be of the day for your ideologically closed mind to accept.
Or maybe its just an old age thing? Now you’re in your 50’s you can’t grasp any radical new concepts???
Don’t worry old boy, you’re in good company. Einstein was a quantom theory denier (like you, he used the term sceptic I’m sure!) because the science came about too late in life to get his head around it….
I am a life long atheist but unlike some who have began their faith journey as a believer I don’t hate or deride those who are still believers.
Atheists don’t or shouldn’t hate anyone but if you don’t believe in God then you should be able to recognise the silliness and the hypocrisy of some religious tenets. According to this post above, you think the world is worse-off because of secularism and that is a ludicrous thing for a true atheist to say. I don’t think you’re an atheist at all Iain.
I am, like many atheists, fascinated by the nature of religious belief and it is that which informs my writing about the Warministas after all what student of religion would not be keen to watch the genesis of a new religious movement?
Global warming and support thereof is as much a religion as French cookery or being a fan of “Home and Away”. The only reason you paint it as a ‘faith’ is because you and your alma mater, like Bolt and Blair, struggle to get any significant number of people to accept your thinly-based arguments. Though it’s not overwhelming, on both quality and quantity there has been more substantive data presented for man-made GW than against, and for one to paint the other as a ‘religion’ because they are losing is specious and infantile.
Good to see you still gutlessly edit posts.
Sorry to offend your widdle sensibilities – oh thick skinned one.
I wasn’t in my cups Iain, your post was just ridiculous so I ridiculed it with the same tone as your stupid post.
It’s just what you were trying to do with your post, but failed.
It seems I have another victory!
Hypocrite.
Iain is all for freedom of speech, provided it’s his own.
Craigy
you should know by now that there are some things that I won’t put up with and had you made the joke once I would have laughed it off but multiple instances of it becomes tedious.
Mark,
you know very well that if anyone wants the same freedom as I have here that all they have to do is set up your own sand pit and then they may do as they please.
Why would I want to set up a sandpit? They just end up full of cat turds.
Meow