The global warming movement has many parallels to a cult. What follows are characteristics of a cult excerpted from Walter Martin and Ravi Zacharias's book entitled, The Kingdom of the Cults. Read on, it gets scary....
1. Leadership by a New Age prophet--in the case of global warming, of course, this is Al Gore.
2. Assertion of an apocalyptic threat to all of mankind.
3. An absolutist definition of both the threat and the proposed solution and/or solutions.
4. Promise of a salvation from the impending apocalypse.
5. Devotion to an inspired text which embodies all the answers--former Vice-President Al Gore's pseudo-scientific tome, Earth in the Balance, and also his Inconvenient Truth documentary, for example.
6. A specific list of "truths" which must be embraced and proselytized by all cult members.
7. An absolute intolerance of any deviation from any of the established truths by any of the cult members.
8. An absolute intolerance of any outside criticism of the cult's definition of the problem or of its proposed solutions.
9. A "heaven-on-Earth" vision of the results of the mission's success or a "hell-on-Earth" result if the cultic mission should fail.
10. An inordinate fear and complete rejection of being proven wrong in either the apocalyptic vision or the proposed salvation.
Any thoughts?
1. Leadership by a New Age prophet--in the case of global warming, of course, this is Al Gore.
2. Assertion of an apocalyptic threat to all of mankind.
3. An absolutist definition of both the threat and the proposed solution and/or solutions.
4. Promise of a salvation from the impending apocalypse.
5. Devotion to an inspired text which embodies all the answers--former Vice-President Al Gore's pseudo-scientific tome, Earth in the Balance, and also his Inconvenient Truth documentary, for example.
6. A specific list of "truths" which must be embraced and proselytized by all cult members.
7. An absolute intolerance of any deviation from any of the established truths by any of the cult members.
8. An absolute intolerance of any outside criticism of the cult's definition of the problem or of its proposed solutions.
9. A "heaven-on-Earth" vision of the results of the mission's success or a "hell-on-Earth" result if the cultic mission should fail.
10. An inordinate fear and complete rejection of being proven wrong in either the apocalyptic vision or the proposed salvation.
Any thoughts?
