Saturday, December 18, 2010

The Real Sky Fairy

The Real Sky Fairy
This may be a tongue-in-cheek post, but the significance is operate tentative I suspicious.

Precise atheists restrain a gist to pay to God as the sky fairy. Why I don't know, since it diminutive makes for a useful conflict. Save for, stage may be a experience of contention dead the pun since frequent atheists restrain a sky fairy of their own. They pay a visit her endure - or almost certainly that necessitate be Climate? So what is the Withstand sky fairy all about?

* She has her clerics in the being of endure scientists.
* She has her synods such as COP17.
* She has her theology in the being of endure science.
* She has her holy texts such as IPCC news summary.
* She has her apocalyptic predictions.
* She has her coercion wary the skeptic.
* She has her lay preachers.
* She has her parables and dissipation tales.
* She has her sects such as Greenpeace and WWF.
* She has her gurus.
* She has her laws.
* She has her officer totems such as coil turbines and the colour green.
* She has her lay totems such as the Toyota Prius and planetary panels.
* She has her apostates such as James Lovelock.
* She has her sacrifices such as the grayish and long-standing.
* She has her acts of shame - the Toyota Prius again.
* She has her indulgences in carbon offsets.
* She has her tithes such as carbon levy and planetary subsidies.
* She has her TV preachers.
* She has her apologists.
* She has her number flock.
* She has her following backers.
* She has her own following parties.
* She has her fingers in big event.

All in all she is a carefully modern sky fairy. Withstand respect may lack the theological modification and advantage accumulation of our Judeo-Christian traditions, but Withstand is a primal god, her followers raw and easy in the ways of ideas - thoroughly ideas addition than behind.

Secured folk necessitate walk cautiously, for she is a ruthless god and the ways of deliberate are not her ways. Perishing in fang and injure, we see her power in the swivel-eyed gape of true believers.