Smug? Moi?
Scot Morrison should think carefully about his tactics.
The impending climate crisis is simply too serious to use denial of it as a political tactic to rally the base.
Lack of effective action to limit anthropogenic climate change is a crime against humanity.
Even voters who regard elections as just another sporting event, in which team-loyalty is a lifelong commitment, will begin to reflect on their continued support if their team captain repeatedly hurdles the picket fence and headbutts his fans.
Our smirking, happy-clapping, god-bothering prime minister has three choices:
Does he want to be remembered by history as a not-very-convincing snake-oil salesman, an amateur-theatre auditioner for the role of Elmer Gantry, or a hypocrite?
If he is none of these, if he genuinely believes the Hillsong Pentecostal dogma - that personal wealth and success are the end result of godliness, that climate change is god's will, that he will be beamed up in the imminent "Rapture" - and he is, as unlikely as it seems, merely gullible and unsophisticated, he is still totally unsuited to the role of leader of this country.
My uninformed concept of the basic principles of religion is that if your behaviour toward your fellow human beings is not up to scratch, your respective deity will make things pretty damned uncomfortable for you at the end of your innings.
No Forty Virgins, no hanging out with the boss's son in Paradise and no other fantasies that the blokes-in-frocks might come up with to con the masses.
And if, against all logic, it turns out that there really is a god, I doubt if it will be the version that will beam Scotty up at the End Times.
Instead, if natural justice really is a thing, Scotty will need a very long snorkel to emerge from Shit Creek.
If there really is an all-powerful supreme being running the show, vengeance is his, as they say.
And it won't be pretty.
Postscript:
Big Brother Google has taken it upon himself to add to the bottom of this post "New comments are not allowed".
I certainly didn't add this offensive Tsarist ukase, and worse, I am unable to delete it.
I assume that my post has offended some functionary of Google or our sincere-but-gullible Pentecostal friends.
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