If energy industries were religions, what religions would they be?

[GliderGuider]

In a previous post, I likened the advocates for energy industries (especially the small ones) to street-corner evangelists. This of course prompts the question, "Well, what religions do they represent?" Here's how I see them.

• The fossil fuel industry is the Catholics – obscenely rich and enormously damaging. But with so many followers, so much money and so much power they can afford to shrug and ignore the carping from the peanut gallery.
  
• The nuclear industry is the Mormons - lots of promise at one time, now fading, but still with lots of members in positions of power. Most ordinary people look at them and think, "Magic underwear? It's lead-lined, right?"
  
• The renewable industry is the Jehovah's Witnesses - small, but with big dreams, and brimming over with faith. They like knocking on peoples' doors asking if they can share some Good News about the coming Salvation.
  
• The hydro industry is the Buddhists – serene in the knowledge that even though they aren't interested in ruling the world, they are, nonetheless, right. Wouldn't be caught dead haranguing bystanders on a street-corner.

[Scuba]

1. Nope. The fossil fuel industry is Satanism.

[GliderGuider]

2. The Catholics have the Inquisition, pedophilia and Pope Benedict.

I think they're sufficiently Satanic to qualify.

[pscot]

3. Which is the one that dragged

the Juggernaut through the streets, crushing anyone who got in its path?

[XemaSab]

4. Oil & coal is Catholicism, for sure

Natural gas is Mormonism.

Nuclear is Islam.

Big hydro is Presbyterianism.

Ethanol is Anglicanism.

Wind is Pentecostalism.

Solar is Hinduism.

And they all sort of suck, each in their own way.

[phantom power]

5. Nuclear is Odinism

Solar is the worship of Ra, the Egyptian sun god

Fusion is Pastafarianism.

Wind is Animism.

Hydro is Wiccan

Fossil fuels subscribe to the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Geothermal is Gaian. Or Cthonian. Or something.

This game is simultaneously fun and ridiculous.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Ironically, fossil fuelists belong to the People's Temple ...

they've all drunk the Kool-Aid.

[GliderGuider]

7. Perhaps the Zero Point Energy folks are Scientologists.

With their own jargon, secret apparatus, whiffs of conspiracy, and a basis in science fiction...

[Nihil]

8. Recommended for making me laugh on a day that really didn't deserve it!

Thanks to all who contributed!