Feb
100 reasons why Anthropogenic Global Warming
is a cult
The Guru is Always Right
Is belief in Anthropogenic Global Warming a cult? Apply this 100 point Cult Test and you tell us. Read each one, adding one point for each statement that rings as true. Total up the score and tell us, on a scale of 0 to 100, what you come up with. Well, it really should be a score between 1 to 100, as there can be no person alive, even if a member of the cult, that could not agree with point #1.
Cult leader Al Gore, is so “always right” that his devotees don’t even question the fact that he will debate no one. Ever. Anywhere. They laugh at this absurd notion, for He is The One. Others are unworthy to even stand in his presence.
In a comment here on our site, Gord alerted us to the test when he posted the first 10 points of “The Cult Test.”
It describes the Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Change near perfectly. Following are the first ten points, with a bit of description from the extensively documented list.
1. The Guru is always right.
“The Guru, his church, and his teachings are always right, and above criticism, and beyond reproach.”
2. You are always wrong.
“Cult members are also told that they are in no way qualified to judge the Guru or his church. Should you disagree with the leader or his cult about anything, see Cult Rule Number One. Having negative emotions about the cult or its leader is a “defect” that needs to be fixed.”
3. No Exit.
“There is simply no proper or honorable way to leave the cult. Period. To leave is to fail, to die, to be defeated by evil. To leave is to invite divine retribution.”
4. No Graduates.
“No one ever learns as much as the Guru knows; no one ever rises to the level of the Guru’s wisdom, so no one ever finishes his or her training, and nobody ever graduates.”
5. Cult-speak.
“The cult has its own language. The cult invents new terminology or euphemisms for many things. The cult may also redefine many common words to mean something quite different. Cult-speak is also called “bombastic redefinition of the familiar”, or “loading the language”.”
6. Group-think, Suppression of Dissent, and Enforced Conformity in Thinking
“The cult has standard answers for almost everything, and members are expected to parrot those answers. Willfulness or independence or skeptical thinking is seen as bad. Members accept the leader’s reality as their own.”
7. Irrationality.
“The beliefs of the cult are irrational, illogical, or superstitious, and fly in the face of evidence to the contrary.”
8. Suspension of disbelief.
“The cult member is supposed to take on a childish naïveté, and simply believe whatever he is told, no matter how unlikely, unrealistic, irrational, illogical, or outrageous it may be. And he does.”
9. Denigration of competing sects, cults, religions, groups, or organizations.
“This is commonplace, and hardly needs any explanation.”
10. Personal attacks on critics.
“Anyone who criticizes the Guru, the cult or its dogma is attacked on a personal level.”
Here are the rest of the items, 11 through 100. We do hope #100 is not right in regards to the global warming cult, since many are truly decent people that have simply been brainwashed. But we do see a mass political suicide coming, and that’s a good thing. A damn good thing.
11. Insistence that the cult is THE ONLY WAY.
12. The cult and its members are special.
13. Induction of guilt, and the use of guilt to manipulate cult members.
14. Unquestionable Dogma, Sacred Science, and Infallible Ideology.
15. Indoctrination of members.
16. Appeals to “holy” or “wise” authorities.
17. Instant Community.
18. Instant Intimacy.
19. Surrender To The Cult.
20. Giggly wonderfulness and starry-eyed faith.
21. Personal testimonies of earlier converts.
22. The cult is self-absorbed.
23. Dual Purposes, Hidden Agendas, and Ulterior Motives.
24. Aggressive Recruiting.
25. Deceptive Recruiting.
26. No Humor.
27. You Can’t Tell The Truth.
28. Cloning — You become a clone of the cult leader or other elder cult members.
29. You must change your beliefs to conform to the group’s beliefs.
30. The End Justifies The Means.
31. Dishonesty, Deceit, Denial, Falsification, and Rewriting History.
32. Different Levels of Truth.
33. Newcomers can’t think right.
34. The Cult Implants Phobias.
35. The Cult is Money-Grubbing.
36. Confession Sessions.
37. A System of Punishments and Rewards.
38. An Impossible Superhuman Model of Perfection.
39. Mentoring.
40. Intrusiveness.
41. Disturbed Guru, Mentally Ill Leader.
42. Disturbed Members, Mentally Ill Followers.
43. Create a sense of powerlessness, covert fear, guilt, and dependency.
44. Dispensed existence
45. Ideology Over Experience, Observation, and Logic
46. Keep them unaware that there is an agenda to change them
47. Thought-Stopping Language. Thought-terminating clichés and slogans.
48. Mystical Manipulation
49. The guru or the group demands ultra-loyalty and total committment.
50. Demands for Total Faith and Total Trust
51. Members Get No Respect. They Get Abused.
52. Inconsistency. Contradictory Messages
53. Hierarchical, Authoritarian Power Structure, and Social Castes
54. Front groups, masquerading recruiters, hidden promoters, and disguised propagandists
55. Belief equals truth
56. Use of double-binds
57. The cult leader is not held accountable for his actions.
58. Everybody else needs the guru to boss him around, but nobody bosses the guru around.
59. The guru criticizes everybody else, but nobody criticizes the guru.
60. Dispensed truth and social definition of reality
61. The Guru Is Extra-Special.
62. Flexible, shifting morality
63. Separatism
64. Inability to tolerate criticism
65. A Charismatic Leader
66. Calls to Obliterate Self
67. Don’t Trust Your Own Mind.
68. Don’t Feel Your Own Feelings.
69. The cult takes over the individual’s decision-making process.
70. You Owe The Group.
71. We Have The Panacea.
72. Progressive Indoctrination and Progressive Commitments
73. Magical, Mystical, Unexplainable Workings
74. Trance-Inducing Practices
75. New Identity — Redefinition of Self — Revision of Personal History
76. Membership Rivalry
77. True Believers
78. Scapegoating and Excommunication
79. Promised Powers or Knowledge
80. It’s a con. You don’t get the promised goodies.
81. Hypocrisy
82. Denial of the truth. Reversal of reality. Rationalization and Denial.
83. Seeing Through Tinted Lenses
84. You can’t make it without the cult.
85. Enemy-making and Devaluing the Outsider
86. The cult wants to own you.
87. Channelling or other occult, unchallengeable, sources of information.
88. They Make You Dependent On The Group.
89. Demands For Compliance With The Group
90. Newcomers Need Fixing.
91. Use of the Cognitive Dissonance Technique.
92. Grandiose existence. Bombastic, Grandiose Claims.
93. Black And White Thinking
94. The use of heavy-duty mind control and rapid conversion techniques.
95. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who leaves the cult.
96. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who criticizes the cult.
97. Appropriation of all of the members’ worldly wealth.
98. Making cult members work long hours for free.
99. Total immersion and total isolation.
100. Mass suicide.
Share your scoring.
Source: The Cult Test
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The Al-le-Gor-ical Cult
It’s been Dugg. Anyone care to Digg it?
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The danger is that it will succeed with the amount of OUR money being thrown at it!… WE Need our own Anti-Cult (populous hero) to rail with the Media to get rational debate to see this cult for what it is,
Mind control, based on a cult, destined to enslave the world for Power and control of the Cult leaders.
There’s another variation, where the proponents cannot understand why anyone disagrees, so blame themselves for not communicating well enough. (Actually, that’s what they say, but I doubt that’s what they believe!)
In any event it breaks down to, “you’re so stupid that it really takes a LOT of communicating to get you to understand”
Yes, Denis, also sounds like The Great President in the History of the World, who’s narcissism will not allow him to believe that Americans don’t want his healthcare plan, but instead he thinks that he has not been communicating his ideas well-enough (even though he is on TV EVERY day).
…they will never debate…they can’t…they have no proof!!! nothing to stand on…so if they stay quiet then maybe they won’t say anything stupid! oops! to late!
I’m totally lost–what happened to the post-modern world where reality is however the individual defines it. Isn’t that what the 60′s were all about–now we have to walk lock-step with the dear leader. Maybe I’ll just join a cult–global warming sounds good.
I think a lot of the problem is kids get propaganda in school, not reality. My eldest son was astute enough in 9th grade to tell me one day he was going to school so they could indoctrinate him. LOL!
Hmmm….bad me…but I had the thought that I couldn’t wait for #100.
One important difference. All previous apocalyptic cults believed the human race was going to be destroyed by a god or a disaster, and joining the cult was supposed to preserve you from the destruction, or sometimes to preserve everyone. The Gaia cult, of which AGW is just one denomination, believes instead that the human race … including the cult members … NEEDS to be destroyed.
Smack! That’s a kiss for this great list.
Al Hore, the cult leader is a treasonist. This modern day Judas has destroyed the US economy with the biggest scientific fraud in history. He should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The illusionary green economy has vanished in a puff of CO2. He should also pay damages for psychological damage done to an entire nation of children by the fearmongering he promoted in his fictional movie. Somebody, somewhere should take urgent action through the court system to have Al’s Convenient Lies tapes banished from all schools immediately.
Want to confess your Climate sins? – Absurd images from recent National Dutch Climate Change PR-Event “Beat the Heat”.
Meet the activists – simply too dim-witted and self-absorbed to realize what fools they are making of themselves..
Meet the winners of the Climate Science Quiz ["What would the temperature of the earth be without the influence of G/house gases??"]..
and watch one man being woken up by subversive methods (of an undercover skeptic..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwFQT9RK8I
wtg gord- it is apparent that these people equate thewmselves and their movement to dieties and religion. This works well w/ Levins list of things blamed for global warming. Well done.
Ack! That’s too nice a photo of him – when he was young and before he turned into the Goodyear Blimp Jr.
81 oh boy 81
Smack! That’s a kiss for you Michele.
But I think the real Smacking should be reserved for the World Wide Cabal of Climate Cheats and their Socialist Elite backers of the AGW Tax Scam……….As in Smack the lot of them in Jail and throw away the keys !
In l a word it can be descibed, BULLSHIT!!!!!
I think climate alarmism is something that happens very easily in secular societies. Most humans have biological need to believe into something higher – into some universal laws that are there – into some universal justice. When a person predisposed to believe in such things grow in a secular environment, that need to believe will force him/her to believe the first “rational” substitute he/she encounters.
Lets see what are the common features in climate alarmism and many other religions. I’ll compare it with the one religion I know best:
1) The lead role is played by almighty silent entity (scientific concensus / god). Nobody has seen him, but everybody believes he exists. I mean – how many believers can name a single climate scientist?
2) The entity is represented by people, who don’t claim to have the entity’s power, but who communicate that entity’s the will to the masses. (Gore / Pope)
3) There is an political organization that decides what is the official truth based on the facts. (IPCC / Meeting of Nikea 325AD)
4) The faithful believe that every answer can be found from the book of that aforementioned political organization. Very few have actually read the book, especially with criticism and thought. (Bible / IPCC ARs)
5) Life that is too easy and pleasant is a sin, and you’ll end up in a very bad situation in the end if you keep doing it. Nobody’s going to like that future, because it will be the worst possible situation for everyone. Where there is too much rain already, there will be more. Where there is drought, there will be even less rain. Where there is cold, there will be colder (“The gulf-stream will stop!”) and where there is warm, it’ll be hotter. (Climate change / Hell)
6) Not committing sin is practically impossible. Who wouldn’t have been proud or envious? Same thing with CO2. Even only by breathing you are destroying the environment. You can not achieve totally sinless life, but’ll have to content to being the least sinful you can.
7) Luxury and confort is evil, but easy living can be conpensated with some hard cash to the right people. Those people then claim to use this money to neutralize your sins.
9) Every unpleasant occurrence is reminder of the faith. Was it too hot? Was it too cold? Too wet? Too windy? Too much ice? Too little ice? They are all signs of the almighty (Climate change / god), and they only happen because humans have been bad.
10) As every religion, also climate change is equivocal enough to be used as a basis for just about any agenda imaginable. It can be used to regulate economies, used as a political tool and it can be used as a reason to justify your need to meddle with the businesses of others.
I believe that the lack of faith in God is the single most important reason that this climate change hysteria has grown so big. It is also the reason why that hysteria is most out of proportion in countries that are secular and why religious countries are much less likely to be irrationally alarmist.
In religious societies there is no void to fill and therefore there can be more rational view of the science behind climate change.
Very well said!! I agree.
Nail on the head!!
Very true.
This also seems to apply to Liberals and Communists too.
I have yet to see anything but liberals in the alarmist cult.
On the other hand, some of the “deniers” are also deniers of religion and somewhat to the right of Ghenghis Khan, so I guess that’s the exception (consistent deniers) that proves the rule ….
Yes. Like I said: most people are predisposed in believing into something higher. There is a portion of the population (something like 5-15%) who – for physiological reasons – have no such need. They are biologically atheists and are no more likely to become believers in this climate cult than they are to believe in God.
There is a good documentary about this called “God On The Brain”. Like all BBC documentries it is viewable on Google Video legally: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7991385426492181792#
The problem is those who have this tendency but are not subjected to religious influences for one reason or another. Maybe their parents were communists who thought that religion is a capitalist trick to numb the mind of the masses? Maybe they live in a society that doesn’t support those of faith, but instead tends to ridicule them? Some try to rationalize “with logic” that God isn’t needed and therefore doesn’t exist.
But faith is a miraculous thing. The need for it is extremely strong. If you try do deny it, it will catch you there where you don’t know to expect it – in cults. And one of those cults is the climate change movement. Perfect cult to suck people in is the one that doesn’t look like a cult. It looks like science – “the enemy of religion” – therefore it is outrageous to even think about it being just one.
And then you don’t think about it. You just believe. And it feels right.
Denis Ables wrote on February 25, 2010 at 4:45 am
I have yet to see anything but liberals in the alarmist cult.
I’m not certain what you brand as liberals, but who were the members of the alarmist cult that got the U.S. involved in futile wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? The people who fall for Gore’s assertion of AGW scare tactics use the exact same methods and excoriate their opponents in exactly the same manner as those who fell for Bush’s WMD claims. Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.
Now Giovanni, don’t get your tights in a knot. My observation had to do more with curiosity than abuse. I did not accuse “all” liberals of being AGW cultists, neither was I considering those sympathetic to warmists who are basically indifferent, but go whichever way the wind blows (mostly politicians or the uninterested). I’m referring to the true believers who go so far as denying the MWP because they understand that it pretty much by itself blows away the AGW claim. (and there were two other earlier and even warmer periods during our current interglacial period.) My question remains. Why does it seem to be the case that the rabid AGW believers seem to invariably be liberals? This does not strike me as a political issue.
I don’t belong to either political party and have major issues with both, so don’t care to spend any time defending any of their decisions or actions, at least not here on ClimateGate. If you have no notion of who is/isnot a liberal, try substituting the term “progressive”, and if that still confuses you …. don’t worry about it, life is short and you’ll likely survive as long as most of us anyway.
[...] attitudes of AGW proponents, most of which are common to many contributors to Politics dot IE: 100 reasons why Anthropogenic Global Warming is a cult | CLIMATEGATE I recommend you read through all 100 points and compare them with your own beliefs and attitudes [...]
[...] The Goreacle will also be thrilled to learn that his global warming climate crisis ticks a lot of the requirements to be classified as a cult. [...]
Wow! That’s the best description of the AGW-denial cult that I have ever seen.
[...] The Goreacle will also be thrilled to learn that his global warming climate crisis ticks a lot of the requirements to be classified as a cult. [...]
The list is not applicable starting with #1.
typical cult response
It has been a very cold winter. We are enduring another snow storm in NY. It makes me wonder: is global warming a scam?
It’s a scam what ever the weather is Amy. Of course it’s different from a pure financial scam in that it has beliefs beyond the personal profit motive. A little beyond but not all that much. AGW theory is science + ecology. Ecology like any religion has positive and negative traits. Being good stewards of our natural resources by managing them wisely is good. Subverting the scientific method which has increased human knowledge and qualitativly improved our once “dirty, brutish, and short” lives is bad. The burning of fossil fuels by human beings is not and has not been proven to cause catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate. People grouped into organizations which are spreading this falsehood have engaged in dishonest practices including deceit, slander, and fraud. It’s really that simple when you boil it down.
Amy:
It’s a scam allright, even if the temperature is currently increasing rather than decreasing !