Post by fearnot on Aug 15, 2022 16:46:45 GMT -5
I suppose this is really an opinion piece
but it seriously has some
'news'
as well.
THE HOT PAGAN NIGHTS OF AUGUST
“How long, O naive ones,
will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:22
The ancient Greeks believed that heat waves were caused by heat from Sirius: the dog star.
We postmoderns don’t believe in any silly superstitious nonsense like that
knowing all too well that the ‘dog days of summer’ are caused by
Styrofoam containers
and a lack of carbon taxes.
Postmoderns are also too smart to believe in the Bible
or the story of G-d creating the world.
They know that the world emerged accidentally out of chaos
and is always on the verge of
being destroyed by mankind.
To pagans, the minutiae of the natural world,
heat and cold,
the position of the stars,
were the revealed religion that they could experience.
Postmodern pagans feel the same way.
Global warming is the old pagan climate religions,
the worship of rain and sun, tree and wave, animal and earth, not out of a desperation to survive,
but a spiritual void in a culture that has lost its moral capacity.
Naming the heat and blaming it on man’s sinful refusal
to appease
the natural forces by abandoning his technology
is a postmodern paganism
that sees summer heat as an ill portent.
According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service,
every year is the warmest year on record
and this is no exception
though one might query the hippos whose skeletons were found in the Thames
and the lions who roamed where London now stands,
the remains of elephants have been found in Seville,
and giraffes lived in Italy long before Caesar brought one over
and the Romans took to eating the long necked creatures as a delicacy.
Europe tried to stop global warming
by abandoning its domestic energy capabilities,
turning to solar and wind energy,
and when that failed,
to Russian gas delivered through Ukrainian pipelines.
The resulting war between the two countries has now lasted over 150 days
and one can only imagine how much heat the destruction of cities and the endless bombing has unleashed.
Back in Europe, the Globe Theater,
which has gone both woke and broke,
marked Earth Day with “Shakespeare and Climate Emergency”,
examining the works of the Bard through climate panic,
or the other way around.
We are told however that Shakespeare
“would have had no conception of the scientific link between emissions and climate change.”
That seems unlikely
considering that he wrote of
“a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare’s monarch was not apt to spend billions
paying researchers to claim that the sky is falling
unless everyone takes to biking to work
and eating soy patties.
(well, opps! now its not soy patties but insects)
“Sometimes he angers me with telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
” Shakespeare comments in Henry VI.
“And such a deal of skimble skamble stuff.”
Bill McGuire, a British academic
who blogs for the eco-terrorist group Extinction Rebellion
who have taken to glueing themselves to things...
has a new book out, “Hothouse Earth”.
"Now this is the sort of skimble-skamble stuff
to set off idiots
gluing themselves to things".
Apparently
"It’s far more appealing than turning to G-d'.
www.israel365news.com/273516/the-hot-pagan-nights-of-august-opinion/