Climate worship is nothing more than re-branded Paganism?
Well now, we've officially reached the point where The Federalist weighs in on the topic of Greta Thunberg, with 35 years of Satanic Panic bullshit and an eternity of faux-Christian "Western" jingoism. For bonus points the author appears to be Anglo-Indian.
And what, exactly, is wrong with Paganism? Unlike conservatives of late, Pagans at least tend to be decent people. And in most countries that follow Western legal codes, Paganism is in fact, perfectly legal to practice and has no need to re-brand.
I mean, seriously, this shit almost has to be read to be believed.
Couple things, tho.
The author of the article starts out describing a relatively obscure article by a relatively obscure historian named Lynn Townsend White, Jr. like it's some kind of Leftist ecological manifesto from which quotes are shouted by ranks of beret-wearing, uniformed Young Pioneers under a wall-sized portrait of
In point of fact the author in question was the son of a Calvinist minister, himself held a Masters of Divinity from a specifically non-denominational Christian seminary and was a historian...a historian who mainly dealt with the intersections between culture, religion and technology. All of which, in the context of the time, means it's fairly unlikely that dude was actually some kind of a Leftist, Che Guevara Beret or otherwise.
But at minimum he's not their kind of conservative and in Federalist Land, that is enough. There are many paths to heresy.
That said there's a couple things in particular I'd like to call attention to:
"If nothing else, the last few days should be enough to prove that Western civilization, a product of more than 1,500 years of Judeo-Christian values, is facing its most significant and sustained challenge in centuries from tribalistic paganism, a force that seeks not only to turn back time but essentially to destroy the entire current edifice."
With full credit given to Jim Wright, of Stonekettle Station; These people have all the self-awareness of a dog licking its own ass in public.
First, it damned well needs to be noted here that Jews were not invited to take part in "Judeo-Christian" anything until well after World War II
Second, the above quote, without even the slightest change, could damned well be employed in an article attacking Trumpism.
And...
As secular liberalism destroyed the fundamental ties that bind society — faith, flag, and family — the human instincts for faith — to believe, worship, submit, and fear — didn’t just go away but manifested in various other pre-civilized tribal ways. For example, a liberal seminary encouraged its students to skip classes to pray and confess sins to potted plants. In Switzerland, 250 people in full funereal garb mourned the apparent approaching death of a glacier.
*Stares in Get Off My Lawn.*
My GOD, but these people apparently have an almost ridiculously shitty view of what things like humanity and society even are.
I used to be a conservative, I can play this game as well as anybody. The "Pre-civilized tribal ways" quote could just as handily be applied to #MAGA hats, "Lock her up" chants, talk radio and the full-throated worship of Donald Trump, not to mention cultural Christianity, Eurocentric jingoism, and the Right's increasingly tribal racism.
The only real objection these fools have to tribes is that other people are beginning to mirror their own tribalism and some of those tribes have turned out to be pretty damned effective opposition.
Well, I suppose it helps that a lot of these right-wing idiots can't find their ass without both hands and a hound dog.
I mean, I don't give a damn about confessing sins to plants, but certainly as far as I'm concerned if people want to hold a funeral for a major geographical feature that they've been around all their lives, that is now melting away...well that's their right to do that, isn't it?
I mean, would the same person object if a bunch of people...especially conservatives...held a funeral march to mark the closure of a military base, or the demolition of an old church?
Different people have different priorities, actual traditional conservatism recognizes that and doesn't mock people or call them Godless for marking something's passing or trying to deal with change.
Honestly, the article only gets worse from there, at one point equating Twerking and some dumb music group that I've never heard of to "ancient people praying to Gaia." Never mind that the modern NeoPagan idea of "Gaia" is younger than my Mom is and that NeoPaganism as an entire concept is only around 100 years old.
If I had to guess, I'd say this author probably has some sexual issues and thinks ancient people...or crunchy hippies for that matter...got more booty than he does.
I suppose, given how much of the rest of this discussion has gone, that I should be grateful that nobody proposed having sex with teenage girls as some kind of objective good, here. I mean, the attempted sexualization of Greta Thunberg pissed me right the hell off...but now these fucking people basically want to in effect sexualize everybody that even gives a damn about the environment... (?)
And of course sex is bad, right?
(...Unless of course Conservative White Men want it...)
Which is of course, the whole point as far as this guy is concerned, but there's something worse.
It's that this fucking moron just throws out blanket statements of his personal beliefs and opinions as if they were as self-evident as the color of the sky or the fact that conservatives are apparently mostly perverts.
Ya know, this might sound weird, and keep in mind that it's coming from an old former conservative...but thanks, Greta.
Thanks for showing us just what the hell these people are. Thank you for exposing the Truth of them.
And the sad part is that at least some of them were always that way. I used to be a conservative, I know this.
I'm just sayin' if you can support this type of shit, fuck you.
If you support the corruption of governments, the destruction of the environment, the erosion of democracy, and for that matter the sexualization of children...for any reason especially if you think you're going to get something out of it, the only two words I've got are "Fuck" and "You."
And fuck the rest of your tribe and whatever they rode in on, too.
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