by DAVID DAINTREE – “WHEN men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” (Anon, but ascribed to G.K. Chesterton)
“… it is not possible to pierce the mystery of the religious mind, the religious conscience of another, with the sword of logic.” (Eugenio Zolli)
- So-called gender fluidity is based on nothing in the visible world, human or animal.
- How can those who deny the existence of the soul talk about being born into the wrong body?
- An imaginary world is more important to the hard Left than a world of facts.
As Chesterton saw, and the great English historian Christopher Dawson likewise insisted, when belief in the Divine is forgotten or thrust aside, civilisation is doomed, and the world goes mad. Everything is skewed. Dreams become nightmares.
The modern Left is stacked with people who manage to believe any number of unseen and impossible things and who have left sense perception far behind.
WORST KIND
To understand how their minds work, we need to recognise that these are religious people by temperament, though lacking any faith in God, and that, like the worst kind of religious people in every age, they can be vicious and intolerant heresy hunters.
To such people, climate change is an “existential threat”.
They have persuaded themselves that it poses a mortal danger to our actual survival, and they have convinced others, especially the young and less well educated, to fall in with them.
But there are greater existential threats: abortion and contraception are far more dangerous.
By contraception, I’m not pushing the reactionary Catholic button and talking about specific chemical or physical prophylactics.
I’m talking about the general and deliberate avoidance of large families, restricting them to one or two children – or none at all – so that population growth falls below the rate necessary to maintain its numbers.
Now that seriously is an existential threat, an extinction scenario!
The people of China and Japan and the “first nations” people of some countries are at last coming to recognise the peril, though in some cases they’re probably doing too little too late to avert catastrophe.
So-called gender fluidity is based on nothing in the visible world, human or animal. If there were any truth in it our agricultural industries would be in big trouble.
And in human terms, have you noticed that when archaeologists excavate bodies, they’re always either male or female? There’s no third (or fourth or fifth) option in the farm yard, or on the archaeological dig, or in the chromosome count.
How can people who deny the existence of the soul talk about being born into the wrong body? To believe such things you have to be some kind of mystic, even if a somewhat deranged one.
DANGEROUS
It used to be thought eccentric to admire the naked emperor’s new clothes, but in the past few years we’ve learned that it’s sometimes dangerous not to.
With due caution, I want to touch on the emerging mythology around the “First Nations” people in Australia.
I tell you with pride that I was one of the 91 per cent who voted YES in the 1967 referendum, which asked if we should remove racist references to Australia’s indigenous people.
I recall nothing but sympathy and goodwill towards Aboriginal people in my school days.
Younger people who weren’t there tell me I’m dreaming – making it up or lying – because they’ve seen a far worse situation unfolding in recent decades.
Yes, relations between the two communities have worsened, and Aboriginal elders are getting worried about the rising number of false or unfounded claims about Aboriginal identity because, frankly, cultural appropriation can pay well.
This has got to be stopped in the interests of truth, and in fairness to the genuine Aboriginal community.
Other instances are legion. Island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are said to be in danger of inundation.
Yet carefully maintained sea level records from various stations on the Pacific rim are inconclusive: for example, mean sea level records at Sydney’s Fort Denison show little change over the past 100 years.
Many reports of rising sea levels also fail to factor in rises and falls in land surfaces relative to the centre of the earth, movements which can clearly impact apparent sea level readings.
ANSWER
The Maldives are often cited as a threatened nation, yet their own government website reports an increase in land area in recent years. Is this due to reclamation from the sea – or have they just built on an upper storey? I think we know the answer to that one.
Many on the hard Left can be best understood if we recognise them as sort of rogue platonists, temperamentally religious people for whom an imaginary world is more important than the world of facts and statistics.
Such people are, of course, “useful idiots” manipulated by hard-line activists who haven’t got a platonic bone in their bodies.
Yet the godless mystics deserve our kindness not our anger. And our prayers, too, if that’s your inclination.
But if we want to combat them effectively reasoning alone won’t work. We need to be wary but also kind: we are treading on their dreams. We can’t win by persuasion.
DEVASTATE
Time will probably bring a tough solution as reality bites. Self-imposed energy restrictions will devastate the economies of Western countries that lived life on the hog throughout the second half of the 20th Century.
The kind of mentality that refuses to use its own coal or uranium but is okay with exporting it for others to use is eventually going to wake up to its own folly without any prompting from us.PC
Sir David Attenborough wants this world to return to a state of Natural! And while I can at times sympathize with some of his views it is simply impractical in most cases, while ever we have humans in this world we may only ever be able to assist nature! As to changing our climate the exploding Island of Krakatoa is probably as close as we could get and that was Nature at it’s fiercest. to suggest we can be forcing change on a planet that has its own recovery system is stupidity in its most lying form by those who wish only to grow rich from this scam and the WEF and UN are perpetrators of this world scam on its people! Along with the criminal Governments who follow and support them at our peril Albo and Co 🙁
As long as the deep state-controlled communist UN/WHO and its conjoined corporate fascist WEF/billionaire stakeholders are allowed to terrorise the world, the nightmare will continue.
Birthed by spiritual decay and a biblical-scale cave in to sin over the centuries, western civilisation has steadily discarded eveything that fed and sustained its genius.
Adam and Eve bit the apple. Now, at the eleventh hour, its bitterness is poisoning us all.
Behind the scenes, a series of historic betrayals threw us into the maws of today’s wannabe-gods-of men. Their job descriptions fit their now familiar list of orchestrated Global Emergencies.
Millions get the picture. Truth, compassion and integrity are not in their playbook. The evidence is everywhere.
The cost of their wanton life-extinguishing Climate and Pandemic agendas has been paid from the get-go by us, and humanity at large. We remain either victims in their ongoing population cull or survivors as their transhuman slaves.
By God’s grace, the one remaining principled common sense answer to Saving the Planet and ditching their 17 suicidal Sustainability Goals is still staring us in the face.
Exit the UN/WHO-WEF before they kill us all!
The best way to counter left-wing climate alarmists’ lies is to gather together the facts on CO2 and then disseminate those facts to as many people as you can. Relevant facts on climate change/global warming are all easily obtainable from an organisation in the USA named ‘The CO2 Coalition’ (co2coalition.org). You’ll be amazed at how much factual information has been compiled by this large grouping of eminent scientists and then professionally presented in an easy-to-understand format.
David Daintree: You do part of the population a dis-service by omitting them in “convinced the young and less well educated to fall in with them”., i.e. there a large numbers of very well educated people who now firmly believe that humans are having a significant effects on climate change, and have shown it through the signs on their houses, and their support for “TEAL” candidates in recent Australian elections.
“One of the pitfalls of not taking an interest in politics, is that you find yourself being ruled by your inferiors.”
PLATO
“YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE”
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Well, here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”
OLLIE
“All that is required for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing”
Edmund Burke.
Closing coal fired electricity power plants before replacing them with new ones?
Sell our Coal and Gas to overseas markets and starving our own markets?
HAVE WE AS A NATION GONE MAD????
When do we put our big people pants on and do something about what we see as obviously ridiculous?
When do we turn time back to 1948 and the freedom that came with it as we came out from under British Rule as One Nation! Pauline Hanson and her masses of followers have been right all along! And we need to return to supporting this One Nation and stop supporting the liars that are supporting the WEF and UN and their supporting Labor, Green, Teals and so on we are One Nation lets Just support it and let the criminal parties lose and get this country back to its people 🙂
Man made climate change, AGW, is a lie. It was disproved in 2007 when the Judgment in the Al Gore movie case was handed down showing there was no scientific evidence to support it.
In 2010 Climategate occurred when a whistleblower released the private emails of all the activist climate scientists. These hypocrite scientists were publicly saying the science were settled about AGW while admitting in their private emails the science was broken and incomplete They also were saying they had to continue to lie to the public and censor sceptical scientists.
Finally in 202, at the height of the China virus, world human emissions of CO2 were reduced by over 30% in some months BUT there was no effect on atmospheric levels of CO2. This proved humans were not responsible for the increase in CO2 so even if you believed CO2 determines temperature, humans are not responsible for CO2 levels.
AGW is being used by commies like albo and turtle bowen to change democracy in Australia. It’s as simple as that.
Why are all my comments subject to moderation?
Create fear and suspicion and you can control the masses. A successful formula used by the Left for some time. It’s working again with the climate change narrative.
When providing facts are avoided we are bound to question why?
“Thanks for your query. Firstly, under current Australian law, Nuclear technology is not an option
While I cannot comment on the reports of Minister Plibersek claim that renewables are cheaper than power stations and AEMO’s CEO being quoted, I can advise that the construction of any generator by the private sector is a matter for companies to make based on their commercial deliberations.
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“WHEN men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” (Anon, but ascribed to G.K. Chesterton)
Probably from Emile Cammaerts, who translated a volume of the Fr. Brown stories into French.