Is our increasing “belief in climate change” (a frequently championed phrase that makes little semantic sense) an opportunistic reaction to Christianity’s presently impoverished state? After all, climate change as a doctrine is predominantly Western, and the West’s most notorious cultural vandals, Foucault and Derrida, were no Christians. If modernism first challenged blind faith, postmodernism further persuaded those already infected by Nietzsche’s nihilism, and it was this predilection for, as Lyotard puts it, “incredulity towards metanarratives” that fuelled the atheistic passions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These passions have not, in any rigid sense, endured. Whilst there can…