October 4, 2021
COVID has Replaced Climate Change as the Religion of the Left
By
Brian C. Joondeph
Religion is a belief system based on a combination of logic and faith, mostly beyond the realm of what can be proven scientifically. A dictionary
definition is, “Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a church or temple.”
Or in simpler terms, religion can create order and meaning in a random and chaotic world. Religion is also strongly held and deeply personal, not something tossed aside based on the words of a government, politician, or celebrity.
For many, politics has become religion, and as a centuries-old etiquette rule advises, “Never discuss politics or religion in polite company.” Unfortunately, today, science has now become political and entered the realm of religion.
For decades, communism was the primary religion of the left. The fall of the Soviet Union and socioeconomic failures of Cuba, Venezuela, and other communist dictatorships steered the left toward a new god, mother earth or simply the environment. This religion morphed from global cooling in the 1970s to global warming a decade later, now to climate change or extreme weather -- normal cyclic events that have been a part of life on Planet Earth since long before humans existed.
While climate change has been the excuse for massive tax and spend schemes of wealth redistribution and top-down population control, the movement was stalling as the fear mongering became less credible to much of the population. Time for replacing an environmental god with a deadly virus, whose treatment and control may achieve what global warming and climate change could not. The left treats both climate and COVID with the religious fervor of jihad.
Religion has
7 basic elements. How are the religions of climate and COVID similar?
Beliefs – the planet and civilization will be destroyed due to man-made global warming or an man-made (increasingly likely) virus. The left believes this with absolute certainty. Just speak with your liberal friends or listen to cable news for confirmation. Immediate and severe measures are necessary, or we are facing an extinction event, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Religious organization – both climate and COVID are organized around fear, large powerful government organizations and the media pushing and amplifying such fear, proposing new bureaucracies, or empowering existing ones to make totalitarian decisions confiscating both wealth and freedom.
Emotions – fear is the primary emotion for both belief systems. For climate it is fear of starvation and an end to normal life. For COVID it’s fear of death from a virus with a
greater than 99 percent survival rate. Emotional images are used, from a polar bear floating on an ice cap to a crowded emergency room or ICU, even if the photos are
staged or have little to do with the issue at hand.
Sacred objects – the climate movement has windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles as their sacred objects with no acknowledgement that their religious icons are currently doing little to solve the supposed problem they are meant to fix. In COVID, the sacred objects are the almighty face mask, largely symbolic and previously acknowledged to be
useless for a respiratory virus by Dr Fauci and others. The vaccine syringe is another sacred object, worshipped by late night political cranks like Stephen Colbert performing an embarrassing and insipid “vaccine dance” featuring dancing syringes. As if Colbert’s foolishness will change the minds of the vaccine hesitant.
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