This will be fun.
Today I would like to make up a new religion.
I mean, why not? People have been making up religions since the dawn of time, right? There is a clear historical precedent, as every cult inherently builds their own wacky belief system, fabricating their twisted delusion out of little more than thin air and wild imagination. In that spirit, let’s proceed with a bit of humor.
Imagine, if you will, that in some obscure corner of the internet a meme popped up, suggesting that round rubber tires are a divinely inspired gift from God. Furthermore, the source of this story cites studies, anecdotal evidence, and divine revelation as proof that burning round rubber tires is pleasing to God.
But burning round rubber tires is more than just a pleasing sacrifice to God. According to the lore, these gifts from God soak up evil spirits as they roll along, generously transporting from one magical place to the next.
The tires sacrifice themselves to protect us from the evil spirits, and in doing so, they get degraded over time. Once their protective shield has been sufficiently worn down, God has directed his followers to burn the round rubber tires in a splendid display of pyro-spiritual worship. Doing so brings a bounty of blessings for the true believers.
Being devout means gathering as many sacrificial tires as possible, stacking them high, soaking them in gasoline, and lighting the refiner’s fire. The thick black plumes are proof that the tires have absorbed many evil spirits, and that these dark forces are now making their way to final judgment before the throne of God himself.
Now, the sacrificial season is upon us.
The pyre has been lit.
The beautiful plumes of thick black smoke beckon believers from all around to gather in celebration of this divine ritual. Praise be to God for cleansing us of the evil spirits!
And then the cops show up.
Some pagan neighbor, confused and lost in the deceptions of the enemy, called in the fire. They told the police we were burning a huge stack of tires. They complained that the air had become toxic, not realizing the odor was the release of these evil spirits.
What’s a believer to do?!
The cops are not believers. They’ve never read the sacred texts. They don’t understand the spiritual battle that is waging all around them. Instead, they insist on putting out the fire and writing a big fat ticket for air pollution. Against every protest, this heavenly mandated spiritual sacrifice, this releasing of evil spirits by the sacrificial burning of round rubber tires is abruptly ended by blind worldly ambitions.
Lord forgive them for their transgressions!
Let’s zoom out.
That hypothetical thought experiment was meant to illustrate the fact that human beings will believe damn near anything.
The Climate Cult believes that blocking out the sun will save the planet.
They believe that if they don’t block out the sun soon, the whole of humanity will suffer in the hellish inferno of a burning planet caused my man made climate change.
They decided, through many decades of research and experimentation, that the quickest and most economical way to block out the sun is to spray reflective chemicals in the sky. They have set about forming more clouds and geoengineering these clouds to be more reflective. They’ve even been playing with nanoparticles.
Unlike the fictitious religion of burning round rubber tires, everything I’ve just said about the Climate Cult is irrefutably true and substantiated by empirical evidence.
Here are some more current articles on this idiotic idea of blocking out the sun:
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