A pastoral warning about the false religion of our age — and the biblical vision that must replace it
The Big Three
- The climate cult is not science. It is a rival religion that worships creation rather than the Creator.
- Every false religion is built on a lie. The 2009 endangerment finding declared the breath of life a pollutant — and Satan has used that legal fiction to deceive nations.
- As the legal scaffolding collapses, the church must preach the dominion mandate again. Silence is surrender.
Dear Christian:
Something is shifting. You can feel it.
For fifty years, the West has been told to manage its own decline. Germans were told to lose their industry to save the planet. The British, sitting on one of the largest offshore oil fields in the world, were told to freeze through winter for the sake of windmills. American schoolchildren were taught that human beings are the disease and carbon dioxide — the gas we exhale, the gas trees feed on — is a pollutant.
Commentator Mike Steger, host of the Promethean Overviews channel, recently argued in “Trump’s Arsenal of Democracy 2.0: Why Iran’s Crisis Is Just the Beginning” that this entire framework is collapsing in real time. Whatever you think of his political optimism, his diagnosis of the underlying sickness is one every pastor should be preaching.
This is no longer about carbon emissions. It is about worship.
What God’s Word Says About the Climate Cult
The Apostle Paul gave us the clearest diagnosis of every fallen culture in Romans 1:25: “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen.”
Paul is not describing an intellectual mistake. He is describing idolatry — the exchange of true worship for false worship. And he names the specific substitution: the creature takes the place of the Creator.
This is the climate cult in one sentence.
When activists genuflect before Mother Earth, when politicians demand human sacrifice in the form of poverty, cold homes, and economic ruin to appease the climate gods, when children are taught that their very existence is a sin against the planet — this is not environmental concern. It is ancient paganism wearing a lab coat. The Canaanites burned their children to Molech for agricultural prosperity. The modern West aborts its children and freezes its grandparents to lower the thermostat of a planet that belongs to God.
Scripture tells us what mankind’s actual relationship to creation is supposed to be. Genesis 1:28 records the first command God ever gave humanity: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
This is the dominion mandate. It is not a suggestion. It is not an outdated cultural artifact. It is the foundational charter of human civilization, given by the Creator Himself before the Fall. Human beings, made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), are called to cultivate, develop, build, and steward the earth for the flourishing of coming generations. Industry, agriculture, energy, medicine, technology — these are not rebellions against nature. They are obedience to God.
The Lie at the Heart of the Cult
Every false religion is built on a lie. That is always how the enemy works. Jesus said of Satan in John 8:44, “He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
The climate cult is no exception. Its scaffolding is elaborate — peer-reviewed journals, United Nations panels, international treaties, federal regulations, classroom curricula — but strip it all away and you find a single lie at the foundation:
That the breath of life is a pollutant.
In 2009, under the Obama administration, the EPA issued what became known as the endangerment finding — concluding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases “endanger public health and welfare” under the Clean Air Act and thereby opening the door to far-reaching federal regulation. In plain terms, the government of the United States declared the molecular signature of life itself to be a contaminant.
Read that again. Slowly. The gas every human being exhales with every breath. The gas every green plant on earth converts into food. The gas God Himself designed into the very architecture of the biosphere. Declared a pollutant.
From that single legal fiction flowed fifteen years of regulatory war against American power plants, refineries, steel mills, auto factories, farms, and cattle ranches. From that single lie flowed a generation of schoolchildren taught that their breath, their hamburgers, their families, and their futures were crimes against the planet.
Satan has used this legal fiction to deceive nations and to teach an entire generation to see their very existence as a problem.
On February 12, 2026, President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin publicly announced that the Trump EPA had finalized the rescission of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. Zeldin described his goal as “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” That is not a politician’s metaphor. That is a theological diagnosis, spoken by a federal administrator, about a federal rule. Even the secular world has begun to admit what Scripture named first.
This is what spiritual warfare looks like when it breaks into the realm of policy. Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The endangerment finding was never merely an environmental regulation. It was a doctrinal statement. And its rescission is not merely a policy win. It is the exposure of a lie that deceived nations.
How We Got Here
The climate cult did not appear overnight. It grew in the vacuum left when the church stopped teaching Genesis.
When pastors treated the creation account as embarrassing myth rather than literal history, they surrendered the theological ground on which the dominion mandate stands. If Genesis 1 is just poetry, Genesis 1:28 is just a metaphor. And if the command to subdue the earth is just a metaphor, the pagans are free to fill the void with a different story — one in which humanity is a cancer, carbon is sin, and repentance means reducing your carbon footprint until you disappear altogether.
This is why creationism matters. This is why a literal six-day creation matters. The doctrine is not a side issue for eccentric Christians who enjoy arguing about dinosaurs. It is the foundation of a biblical view of man, nature, work, family, and civilization itself.
Remove the Creator, and man becomes an accident. Remove the dominion mandate, and industry becomes a crime. Remove Genesis, and every generation must be taught to hate itself.
Living It Out
What does faithfulness look like in this moment?
Recover the doctrine. If you are a pastor, preach Genesis. If you are a parent, teach your children the dominion mandate. If you are a grandparent, tell the next generation that they were made on purpose, for a purpose, by a God who calls His creation very good (Genesis 1:31). The climate cult preys on children who have never been taught who they are. Inoculate them with truth.
Reject the false guilt. You do not need to apologize for driving to work, heating your home, or having children. When activists tell you that human flourishing is itself a sin, answer with Psalm 24:1: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.” The earth belongs to God, not to Gaia, and He gave it to us to cultivate.
Steward wisely. Dominion is not license. Genesis 2:15 tells us that God placed Adam in the garden “to work it and keep it.” Biblical dominion includes conservation, careful use, and generational thinking. Environmentalists often raise legitimate concerns about pollution, habitat destruction, and genuine stewardship failures. Those concerns deserve serious biblical engagement — just not pagan solutions. The answer to pagan environmentalism is not indifference. It is biblical stewardship that treats creation as God’s gift, not as God Himself.
Hope and Action
The political scaffolding of the climate cult is cracking.
On April 20, 2026, President Trump issued five presidential determinations under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, a statutory framework created after World War II to replicate the kind of industrial mobilization that made America the “arsenal of democracy.” Each determination declared a different pillar of the U.S. energy system “essential to the national defense” and authorized extraordinary federal support to expand its capacity:
- The electric grid — transformers, high-voltage lines, substations, and the manufacturing base required to build them.
- Large-scale energy infrastructure — generation, transmission, and the specialized components needed to deploy them.
- Natural gas and LNG capacity — pipelines, processing, storage, and export terminals.
- Coal supply chains and baseload power — the mining, transport, and generation capacity that keeps the grid stable when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine.
- Domestic petroleum production, refining, and logistics — upstream production, refineries, pipelines, and terminals.
Combined with the rescission of the endangerment finding, this is not a tweak at the edges. It is a declaration, backed by federal statute and financing tools, that America intends to build, produce, and provide for its own people rather than apologize for existing.
Is this politically motivated? Perhaps. But Christians must learn to evaluate policies, not personalities. Whether President Trump is a believer is a matter between him and God. What matters for our discernment is whether the policy aligns with the biblical standard. And when a policy reopens the door to abundant energy, affordable heat, reliable electricity, productive industry, and human flourishing, that policy is walking in the direction Scripture pointed from the very first chapter.
Proverbs 13:22 tells us that “a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” You cannot leave an inheritance if your nation has deindustrialized, your grid cannot carry load, and your grandchildren have been taught to hate their own existence. Rebuilding the industrial and energy foundations of a civilization is generational stewardship. It is dominion-mandate obedience in the language of transformers, pipelines, and power plants.
But do not mistake political shifts for spiritual victory. Administrations change. Executive orders can be rescinded by the next president. The determinations of April 2026 could be undone in 2029 — or sooner. If the church leans on Washington to preserve biblical order, we will be disappointed again and again.
Our hope is not in Washington. Our hope is in the sovereign God who sits in the heavens and laughs at the schemes of men (Psalm 2:4), who raises up nations and brings them low (Daniel 2:21), and who will one day return to make all things new. Political victories are gifts of common grace. They are opportunities. They are not salvation.
What political shifts do give us is a window — a season in which the lies are easier to name, the idols are easier to expose, and the truth is easier to preach without being immediately silenced. The church must not waste this window.
Teach Genesis. Reject the false guilt. Steward wisely. Raise children who know whose image they bear. Support policies that honor the dominion mandate, and call out policies — from any party, any administration — that do not.
The climate cult is dying. Let us make sure the church is ready with something better than silence — the ancient, unshakable, world-building truth that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), and that everything flows from there.
Stand firm, Christian. The watchmen are sounding the trumpet. Will the church listen?
For Further Study: Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 8; Psalm 24:1; Proverbs 13:22; Romans 1:18-25; Ephesians 6:10-18; Colossians 1:15-20; John 8:44
