[adamrezich]

it's the agnostic, post-Christian rapture, complete with agnostic, post-Christian original sin, agnostic, post-Christian dogmatic orthodoxy, and agnostic, post-Christian heresies. it's even got an agnostic, post-Christian priest class that wear agnostic, post-Christian vestments while doing agnostic, post-Christian holy work.

the only thing missing is agnostic, post-Christian salvation…

[whatshisface]

The metaphor would be more profound if you could also apply it to a McDonalds. :-)

[adamrezich]

I'm afraid to ask but… what would the McDonald's Rapture be? and McDonald's Original Sin for that matter. plus, McDonald's Salvation seems pretty straightforward to me…

regardless, the Church of McDonald's, for all of their other shortcomings as a Church, doesn't seem to fit the profile of "doom cult", so I'm not too concerned about them.

[whatshisface]

The McDonalds Armageddon (I think climate change is more of an Armageddon than a rapture) is what happens to you after you commit too many McDonalds sins, which are the menu items. :-)

[myshpa]

McDonalds is one of the biggest culprits here, for sure.

Climate change is just a symptom of much bigger problem, and that's ecological overshoot. Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

Animal ag is the leading driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution and soil erosion.

McDonalds is one of the biggest companies driving deforestation worldwide (5th?), in fact 8 out of 13 biggest deforesting companies worldwide are in the meat industry, one way or another.

https://earth.org/major-companies-responsible-for-deforestat...

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Every year the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest. 95% of this occurs in the tropics. At least three-quarters of this is driven by agriculture – clearing forests to grow crops (upto 80% for animal feed), and raise livestock

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation