Despite What Evangelical Institutions Like SEBTS Tell You, Climate Activism is a Religious Cult

End-times cults and religious movements have been the subject of fascination, horror, and a fair share of eye-rolls for decades—even centuries. You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones with the extremist beliefs, the apocalyptic prophecies, and the tragic endings.

Of course, there's Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple, who convinced over 900 people to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Jonestown, Guyana back in 1978. Then there's David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, who decided to go out in a blaze of glory during a 51-day siege with law enforcement in Waco, Texas in 1993. Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, convinced his followers to commit mass suicide in order to board a spaceship hiding behind the comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. And let's not forget Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, who orchestrated a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.

What do all these cult leaders have in common? A passionate belief that the end of the world was nigh, and that only they and their followers would be saved. It's a disturbing and tragic pattern that's hard to ignore. But in a world where reality TV and social media influencers reign supreme, it's not surprising that some people are willing to follow anyone who promises them a way out of the chaos.

And this is exactly what's happening with arguably the world's largest and most influential end-times cult in all of history—the climate change cult. You've probably seen that Greta Thunburg, a climate change activist, has been elevated to the position of high priestess of climate activism, when, in 2018 as a child, she began skipping school to protest climate change outside of the Swedish Parliament.

Last year, Thunberg received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki. So why a doctorate in theology? Because, as you can clearly see, climate activism is a religion.

Like the end-times doomsday cults, climate activists have been making religious predictions about the end of the world for as long as time has been recorded. It's amazing how these so-called "experts" keep making these doomsday predictions about climate change and yet, time and time again, they prove to be completely off the mark.

Remember Al Gore's 2006 documentary? He claimed that the earth's atmosphere would reach a "point of no return" by 2016 and that we would be facing floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Well, surprise surprise, none of that actually happened. And let's not forget about Prince (now King) Charles, who "warned" us back in 2009 that we only had 96 months to save ourselves from climate change disaster. It's been 12 years since then, and we're all still here.

Or how about the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who declared in 2015 that the COP21 climate conference in Paris was the "last chance" to save the planet from "the chaos of climate change." Well, it turns out that their predictions were way off, and we're still here today, living our lives just fine.

And who can forget the 2007 prediction from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that Himalayan glaciers would melt away due to global warming by 2010? Oh, wait, that one was based on bunk science, or should I say, bunk theology.

And what about the 1970 prediction from Life magazine that we would be experiencing a new ice age within a decade due to atmospheric cooling. In 1970, Life magazine published an article titled "The Cooling World," which argued that the earth was entering a period of cooling that could potentially lead to a new ice age within a decade. This article caused a great deal of panic among the public.

However, over time, it became clear that the predictions in the Life article were based on flawed reasoning and an inability to actually make accurate long-term predictions about the climate.

Yet, fast-forward to today, and this time, they're "for real." In fact, they're so "for real", that state and federal governments and governments around the world are now enacting the most extreme climate laws the world has ever seen. So much so that they're willing to destroy the world's economy, catapult entire civilizations into poverty, and starve people to death—all in the name of "saving the planet.

In all this, is it not astonishing that we now have Evangelical "shepherds"-turned-climate-alarmists—like Gavin Ortlund—urging Christians to embrace climate activism? They argue that ignoring this cause is irresponsible, yet when challenged, they backpedal faster than a politician caught in a lie.

Ortlund complains that conservative Christians don’t pay enough attention to the so-called scientific evidence of climate change. But let's be honest—we dismiss it because, as Christians, we see right through their speculative nonsense masquerading as science. It's rejected on both scientific and theological grounds.

Climate alarmism rests on the faulty premise that the earth has existed for millions of years—a belief that is not only speculative but also inherently religious, as it relies on the assumption that the God of the Bible does not exist and did not create the world as Scripture reveals. This belief is sheer speculation rooted in an unprovable ideology.

Bible-believing Christians reject climate alarmism because it contradicts the foundational truths of our faith and rests on faulty logic. We know the climate change narrative is not based on empirical evidence but on a secular, godless worldview that aims to undermine the authority of Scripture and the sovereignty of God.

And Even Southern Baptist seminaries are in on the scandal. Katharine Hayhoe brands herself as a "climate scientist" and an Evangelical Christian. But in reality, what she's really doing is mixing her climate activism into a bizarre, cult-like belief system that is anything but Christian. Her approach, which essentially merges speculative "science" with religious dogma, has made her a darling of the climate change alarmists within religious circles, even sneaking into the Southern Baptist Convention.

In 2021, Hayhoe graced the halls of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), thanks to the questionable judgment of its president, Danny Akin. Her fear-mongering about climate catastrophe, wrapped in the absurdity of what her movement calls "climate justice," is a ludicrous detour for an institution that should focus on training pastors to exegete Scripture and shepherd their flocks.

Hayhoe's apocalyptic proclamations about human-induced environmental doom clash head-on with our biblical mission. Why on earth would SEBTS indulge in this speculative science voodoo? Their primary goal should be fostering a deep understanding of Scripture, not entertaining debates on unproven and contentious scientific theories.

Watch her blast Christians for not taking her climate alarmism seriously: