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THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 134 — Batman Goes Shopping? He-Man and the Masters of the Culture War?
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Sarah Salviander's Post: Secular Religion and the Human Sacrifice of Climate Ideology
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Jack Posobiec reads from what he calls a 'perfect' post by Sarah Salviander on X: with roughly 1,000 people dead in France from heat, and Europeans still refusing AC, Salviander argues the religious impulse cannot be extinguished — remove God and it simply metastasizes into something darker. [1] — Jack Posobiec "You can't kill the religious impulse — you can only redirect it. Europe's climate ideology offers guilt and atonement without forgiveness, …" 1:20:48 Secular religion, she writes, offers guilt and atonement in abundance but no love or forgiveness. Its rituals of suffering can be literally deadly. The earth will not absorb punishment for human sins as Christ did — so the human becomes the sacrifice. Blake responds by asking whether a Christian Lenten fast from AC might actually be spiritually coherent, noting that desert monks and John the Baptist lived in extreme heat as a form of devotion. Jack is intrigued and says he might try turning off his apartment AC for a day. The panel dissolves into jokes about what a livestream of Blake slowly overheating in Arizona would look like, before Russ asks his own kids whether they'd give up heat for Lent.
Jack Posobiec cited a post by Sarah Salviander noting approximately 1,000 excess heat deaths in France as Europeans endure a major heat wave while largely refusing to install air conditioning.
You can't kill the religious impulse — you can only redirect it. Europe's climate ideology offers guilt and atonement without forgiveness, harsh rituals, and no mercy. The earth won't take punishment for your sins. You will. The human sacrifice for climate guilt is just people dying in apartments.
