Those who espouse global warming do so with religious-like zeal, and even refer to their cause as a moral and spiritual issue. After all, global warming has all the components of a religion. It has a Garden of Eden (the world before the combustible engine), sin (excessive energy use), churches (public schools and halls of government), a high priest and prophet (Al Gore), sales of indulgences (carbon credits), plagues (future floods, droughts, and other catastrophes), prophecy (100-year weather forecasts), and a path to salvation (the Kyoto Treaty), just to name a few.
By all means, read the whole thing.
There's more in the American Spectator, here Paul Chesser: The Southern Baptist Capitulation, as well as an update with some better news here Baptists: No change on climate change, which seems to attribute the whole mess to a 25-year-old liberal weenie seminary student trying to pull a fast one --- and, deservedly, getting promptly slapped down.
I guess I'm just glad that as a Jew, I don't really have a dog in this fight.
Update: Found a quotation that helps shed a little light on the subject:
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
~~~~~ Bertrand Russell {1872-1970)
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