[rickjames28]

Like many who visit HN, I am an atheist. I am coming to believe, however, that the production of CO2 is the greatest sin, in the religious sense, that exists today

Yes, global warming has become the religion of leftists.

[mikeyouse]

This is such a ridiculous statement.

Leftists like Bill Gates, Newt Gingrich, John Hunstman, Frederick Smith, Susan Collins, Tim Pawlenty?

Cap and Trade was a free-market republican idea originally [1], but now that it's being advocated by the 'Leftists', it's become much more politicized.

A plurality of scientists agree that steps should be taken, the FUD denial is all paid for by a dozen companies who stand to profit from additional delays, yet it's somehow comparable to 'religion' to think that we should take action?

[1] - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Presence-of-Min...

[jessaustin]

Cap'n Trade was, is, and will always be a guaranteed frenzy of corrupt corporatist rent-seeking. Both varieties of Coke-and-Pepsi Repubmocrat eat from that trough. I actually wish they'd pass a carbon tax, only to forestall the disaster that Cap'n Trade would be.

[baddox]

He didn't say only leftists.

[indefatigable]

Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.

[DenisM]

It's not just global warming, it's also the "food safety" button - the GMO scaremongering and the whole "organic" deal.

Both conservatives and liberals get very religious about what people put in their bodies; the two sides differ primarily on which orifice concerns them the most.

[vertr07]

I always find it funny when the religious claim that atheists are actually religious too and use that to dismiss them.

[jessaustin]

Laugh away, but I'm not religious at all, and the same bullshit that turned me away from religion also turns me away from atheism.

[MartinCron]

Or, an atheist who sees a profound ethical issue uses a religious metaphor to describe the magnitude and emotional response, take your pick.

[indefatigable]

Someone famous once said something to the effect of: "When people believe in nothing, they will believe anything."

Interestingly enough most of those people are completely in denial about their own irrational zealotry.

[emil0r]

"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."

Malcolm Muggeridge

[vertr07]

I think what you are referring to is: “He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” ― Alexander Hamilton

Nice try though.