Jim Hansen and Colleagues Speaking at COP21, on Energy for Humanity

For some odd reason that escapes me, we have "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes showing up - this is hardly surprising - to bash nuclear energy, while pretending to give a shit about the writings of James Hansen on climate change.

This sort of reminds me of MAGATS talking about Jesus while supporting violence, war, immigrants (in Jesus mythology, Samaritans) bashing the poor, basically doing everything that the character of Jesus portrayed in literature deplored while claiming to worship him while confusing him with the orange pedophile in the White House.

I'm an atheist, but when I was young I recall reading the religious philosopher Allan Watts, who remarked that rather adopt the religion of Jesus, Christians decided to adopt a religion about Jesus. This is obviously not the only example of cult thinking. We see it in modern times.

To wit: Jim Hansen, the prominent climate scientist.

There are lots of videos featuring Jim Hansen on the internet, including the one below. I invite the viewer to move to the video where Hansen begins speaking at 6:00 minutes in the video, or if one prefers, one can watch the whole video involving other climate scientists, including one who like me, when I was ab uneducated and stupid, antinuke, protested the Shoreham nuclear plant, causing it to never operate, thus killing people. This would be Ken Caldiera, who opens the session.

I am obviously not the only person on the planet who transformed from a position of a scientifically illiterate antinuke.

If one ignores what a figure is saying, any figure, this certainly is true of Jesus, and perhaps other figures in religious faiths of whom I am unaware, in order to worship the figure while ignoring the content of the figures ideas and statements, as is true of most modern Christians, one is engaged in cult thinking.

My favorite remark in the video, at east the fractions I've actually watched comes from Kerry Emmanuel, "Why are four climate scientists who don't have strong backgrounds in nuclear physics, talking to you about nuclear energy. It's because we're scientists and we can do the math." It comes at 3:30.

There are lots of cults of obliviousness on this planet. Christianity is just one. Another seems to concern the climate scientist Jim Hansen.

Enjoy: