{"id":9816,"date":"2019-06-26T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:12:40","slug":"unoriginal-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9816\/","title":{"rendered":"Unoriginal Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know I like to draw comparisons between environmentalism and the traditional religions that modern societies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5058\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I mentioned climate change because this seems to be the aspect of modern politics in supposedly secular countries which most closely resembles a religion. Once again, we have the sacred texts, the high priests, the apostates, punishment of unbelievers, calls for sacrifices, and indoctrination all wrapped up in a great moral crusade stretching beyond our lifetimes that secures the blind faith of the followers. It makes me laugh when I hear atheists refer to \u201cScience!\u201d when talking about climate change: these people are no more able to challenge the pronouncements of the scientists, whose words have been filtered through the media and politicians, than a medieval peasant was able to challenge the high priests\u2019 interpretations of sacred texts. They are as much wedded to faith as their devout ancestors, but they don\u2019t realise it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In support of this theory I present a chap on Sky talking about original sin:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For over a hundred years, the UK released more carbon than any other nation. This has left the UK with the world&#8217;s fifth highest carbon debt.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our special report on the climate crisis here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0T7VuyGdd\">https:\/\/t.co\/L0T7VuyGdd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53hht3HnZR\">pic.twitter.com\/53hht3HnZR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1143589818649260037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nLet the self-flagellation begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know I like to draw comparisons between environmentalism and the traditional religions that modern societies abandoned: I mentioned climate change because this seems to be the aspect of modern politics in supposedly secular countries which most closely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9816\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}