Hypocrisy With Climate Disaster And The Second Coming

What someone does or does not believe about the future stems from even more foundational parts of their worldview.  A person who is rationalistic can understand the evidential probability or logical possibility of future events without pretending like he or she knows which of the numerous possible events will actually occur, and non-rationalists will instead believe that specific future events will happen on the arbitrary grounds of emotion, persuasion, or mere perception or desire.  How people react to false predictions will likely reflect whatever irrationality is in the rest of their worldview, as in the case of how the typical kind of non-rationalistic Christian dismisses the logical possibility of human-spurred climate disaster because of inaccurate predictions while not treating the Second Coming the same way.

The Second Coming of Jesus might have been predicted falsely many times throughout church history, but it does not logically follow that there will be no Second Coming at all.  Whether Jesus is divine or whether he will return are metaphysical issues that are not dictated by whether fools across history claimed or even privately believed they knew when the return of Christ would occur.  Many Christians would agree with this, but not on the basis of strictly logical necessity, agreeing that false predictions of the Second Coming do not mean Christianity is false only because they are emotionalistically attached to Christianity already, not because they recognize how the invalidity of Christian eschatology does not logically follow from idiots making such claims.  The same is true of environmental disaster of human origin.

Irregardless of whether human-caused climate change leads to some sort of catastrophe, the truth of the matter will not depend on if some environmentalists, like some Christians, made assumptions and proclaimed errors out of misguided zeal.  The way evangelical Christians tend to react to this as opposed to the false dates for Christ's return shows that they are very willing to overlook false predictions when they are made by other evangelicals.  It is not hard to see in the individual cases of climate alarmism and Christian eschatology that there is no such thing as knowledge, as opposed to assumptions, of when major events will happen.  It is not difficult to see that any fool could believe or assert that an event is right around the corner when there is no way they could prove it.

Non-rationalists are certainly prone to fallacies no matter which ones they end up holding onto.  So very easily, fallacious beliefs involve the hypocrisy of treating different groups of people as if one of them is not in the wrong for having epistemological or moral errors.  This hypocrisy could take the form of conservatives criticizing liberals for the misandry they also embrace just as it could take the form of evangelical Christians, who are often also conservatives, thinking that failed promises of ecological disaster invalidate all strands of environmentalism while ignoring the similarities to how they treat the Second Coming.  Insincerity and its more important cousin irrationality are what convince them to have such distinct philosophical standards in their metaphysical ideologies, epistemological frameworks, and moral stances.