Larrey Anderson at The American Thinker has an excellent piece [1]up today. Here’s a taste:
Even atheists are religious. They have a dogma (God does not exist) and they have a vast number of rituals. (Most of their rituals involve lawsuits over the use of the term “God.”) They have multiple proselytizing websites [2]. They even have a church [3].
Their religion gives the atheists’ lives significance. If there is no soul and no afterlife then this life is all that we have. To give meaning to meaninglessness, atheists occupy their time instructing non-atheists on the meaning of the meaningless. This is silliness, of course, but the religion of atheism gives a structure to its practitioner’s otherwise admittedly pointless existence.[i]
Likewise environmentalism. Seen as a religion, environmentalism is Judaeo-Christianity turned on its Hegelian head. Traditionally religion posits an all-powerful God that saves a sinful humanity from itself through the intervention of a human clergy.
In environmentalism, an all-wise clergy, composed of government bureaucrats and “scientists,” saves the planet from a sinful humanity. In the green religion human beings are both God and the devil. We are righteous when we act in conformity with the establishment’s dogma — and we are evil if we question it.
Anderson makes the point that Pagans used to worship the weather, too, and the connections are not as far-fecthed as some would have us think.
Go and read.