Fossil Fools: Stop Indulging The Doom Cult
When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the All Saints Church in Witternberg, Germany, 507 years ago last month— starting the Protestant Reformation— one of his principle targets of complaint was the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church.
For those not brought up in the church of Rome, an indulgence is defined as “a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven”. In plain English the church said “Give us money, and we’ll reduce your time in Purgatory before getting into heaven.”
In Monopoly we’d call it the Get Out Of Jail Free card. The debasement that followed the sale of indulgences made the Church the most wealthy, powerful and corrupt organization in the middle ages.
The growing gap between the Church’s lavish lifestyles— and double standards including priests marrying, acquiring property— created massive resentment from the Crown who wanted the money and with the population kept poor and intimidated by the Pope’s posse. Excommunication from the Church— and heaven— was the mortal threat to souls who demurred from filling the coffers of the bishops and cardinals.
Had Luther attended the failed Glasgow COP26 conference he would likely have been nailing his theses on the door of Al Gore’s limo. Like the 16th-century Church the UN climate priests of holy Gaia hold your almighty soul over the rotisserie of guilt. If there’s a more corrupt hustle than selling indulgences to heaven it’s selling relief from climate catastrophe.
These cardinals and bishops of carbon reduction live as luxuriously as did the Pope and his agents of 16th century Rome. Preaching the unholy terror of CO2 poisoning the earth they travel in opulent style in private jets spewing clouds not emissions. (Preachy Prince Charles flew his private jet to Glasgow via a side trip to Italy for the G20 conference.)
You can’t blame the Climate cult. Having seen how easily the ruling class used the Covid-19 media to intimidate citizens Gang Green now warn citizens to “Donate” or risk despoiling the air and water. Or, better yet, “Get your government to send us money”.)
Because one-world government is what this is all about. A government populated by characters out of Dante. Historian Christopher Chantrill writes, “Back in the ‘good old days’, we used to call ruling-class courtiers ‘fops’. Do you think that applies to, say, Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation who is celebrating the adoption of two infants with his husband and has been taking advantage of parental leave over the past two months? Or to well-born young women at our elite colleges strutting and fretting on the stage of privilege acting out the role of the helpless victim?
“What about the fact that our ruling class insists that the world is a suffering multitude of victims and that only virtuous Allies can bend the arc of history towards justice for the victims, the oppressed peoples of the world, and away from their tormentors, the all-powerful white oppressors.”
The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga ha observed the correlation between the COP’s romantic pretensions to the time of Luther— when exaggerated formality and romanticism acted as “a defense mechanism against the constantly increasing violence and brutality of general society.”
Now? The holy orders of the Left must be observed first. St. Greta is venerated and Joe Biden rides in an 85-car procession even as America’s cities burn and criminals run free after looting the CVS. Even as the supply chain ground to a halt in an armada of container ships bobbing for weeks outside the ports of Los Angeles and other ports Glasgow conference rooms were the locus of American power.
Riding herd on this blue-check show of faux virtue are scribes wielding the power of social media excommunication. Sitting at the right hand of power they draw up lists of pagans to be punished. No one takes this more seriously than the Canadian media who flock in greater numbers per capita to legitimize the proceedings.
As we wrote in February Donald Trump’s demands to “drain the swamp” of climate change would have found great support in the Reformation. As would the total war waged against him as he challenged the status quo. He was both bellwether and threat. The grandees of COP26 think they’ve discouraged anyone from following his example. For their sakes they better be correct.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster The best-selling author of Cap In Hand has been nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan is called InExact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx