{"id":6170,"date":"2009-11-03T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2009-11-03T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:50:12","slug":"i-knew-it-belief-in-climate-change-is-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-knew-it-belief-in-climate-change-is-a-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew it: belief in Climate Change is a religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And in the UK, belief in anthropomorphic climate change has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/earthnews\/6494213\/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html\" target=\"_blank\">legally given the status of a religion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that &#8220;a belief in    man-made climate change &#8230; is capable, if genuinely held, of being a    philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief    Regulations&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is that we can look forward with anticipation to Dawkins and his cronies mocking this as they do every other religion. Maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in the UK, belief in anthropomorphic climate change has been legally given the status of a religion: An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-knew-it-belief-in-climate-change-is-a-religion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[2130],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}