So everyone should know by now that Pat Robertson blamed the Haiti earthquake on God’s retribution for a supposed Haitian pact with Satan that was supposedly done back in the 18th century, and Danny Glover blamed it on an angry Gaia venting her anger over the lack of progress made in Copenhagen’s UN climate meetings.
I’ve also had conversations with other people and the Pat Robertson “Retribution of an Angry God” due to Haiti’s pact with Satan is surprisingly common. In the Avatar-worshiping environmentalist wacko crowd, I’m sure Danny Glover’s “Vengeful Gaia” view is very common as well.
This is, of course, one reason I call Anthropogenic Global Warming is a religion. These people really believe that Gaia is real and that human beings are a sort of virus destroying the Earth-mother.
Of course to me this strikes me as a return to rank superstition and ignorance. We know exactly why Haiti had an earthquake. Scientists had been predicting a devastating earthquake in the 7.0 range on the Richter scale would hit Haiti for several years. The only surprise here is that Haiti ignored all those warnings and continued to build without any codes that would have reduced the damage caused by the earthquake, and they had no plan to deal with the aftermath.
Sometimes when I look at the world I see a dangerous trend towards superstition, usually involving angry, retributive Gods or demons, or more and more frequently, an angry Earth-mother desperately trying to control a pesky infestation of human beings.
Pat Robertson and Danny Glover should join hands, they are two of a kind.
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Are you attacking the supernatural, in general? I agree with you but there are many who believe AGW but are not superstitious in any way. I think there is a vocal fringe who are as you say but this is in now way a majority. As for Pat Robertson, this is par for the course. He has been making strange comments like this for several years. I hope people realize this and ignore him. I do.
I am an angry god.
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Rationality and spirituality aren’t mutually exclusive though many of the practitioners certainly would make you think so. Thankfully correlation doesn’t equal cause.
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Maybe this explains why Obamalamadingdong is so intent on destroying this Country. He is bowing to Gaia.
mtn: I could certainly make a case that rationality and faith are contradictory approaches to answering certain questions. Certainly the definition of faith (“belief in things unproven”) can be described as the antithesis of rationality, but in reality there is some level of faith involved in any world view. It’s simply not possible to “know” everything and since no physical theory yet proposed and supported with evidence provides any explanation of how the universe began, there is some level of faith involved in believing in even the Big Bang theory.
But what I am talking about isn’t the deep, philosophical interpretations of rationality vs. faith, I’m talking about overt, in-your-face superstition in angry gods, fallen angels which shake the roots of mountains and the general concept that humanity is fundamentally depraved and that the real powers in the universe are just biding their time before lowering the boom on humanity in general.
This can be a Pat Robertson view, a Danny Glover view or even an alien visitation (“Day the Earth Stood Still”) view of things.
All I’m really saying is that plate tectonics alone is enough of an explanation for me of what happened in Haiti. I don’t have to drag angry gods into the discussion, and those who do strike me as more superstitious than rational. That’s all.
Oh, and on the question of whether the majority of AGW believers are superstitious, I guess I can’t really claim to have any poll results to back it up, but I’ll say that any of them who invoke the name of Gaia or the Earth Mother, or who suggest as Glover did that humans are being punished for our “sins” definitely qualify as superstitious.
I for one welcome our new alien overlords, and would like to point out that as a master of the internets, I could be useful in rounding up resisters and malcontents.
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