It's the same kind of arrogance we see from the UN - the insistence that developing nations leapfrog over the Industrial Revolution and go straight to the solar panels and windmills that are still not economically viable in the developed world.Unfortunately, cultural alliance with the Pontiff is becoming increasingly difficult as Pope Francis insists on embracing bizarre and unhelpful social doctrine that flies in the face of biblical morality.Incidentally, I am not referring to Francis’s recent rebuke of President Trump’s acknowledgement of Jerusalem as the rightful capital city of Israel. The Pope registering his “deep concern” over Trump’s actions seemed more overwrought and pandering than they did misplaced.My real frustration was must recently illustrated in Pope Francis’s trip to the impoverished nations of Myanmar and Bangladesh. There, in countries where minority Muslims are being executed and where his fellow Catholics are under intensifying threat, the Pope spoke to the “real” danger they faced: climate change. Not that anyone should have been surprised at this.Remember it was Pope Francis who recently lectured as “stupid” all “climate deniers” who don’t acknowledge the evil inherent in fossil fuel use. He did this while sitting aboard his fossil-fuel guzzling jumbo jet. And remember it was Pope Francis who in the same month where Islamic terrorists killed almost 90 people on the streets of France, almost 30 in a bakery in Bangladesh, and over 320 people shopping in Baghdad, begged the world to join him in prayer for deliverance...from environmental threats to the planet.But there’s a reason that the Pope’s allegiance to the religion of Warmerism is so much more troublesome. As a man who has interposed himself between man and God, the Pope pretends to be speaking with the authority of Christ. The same Christ who commanded His followers to care for the “least of these.” But Pope Francis’s commitment to warring against fossil fuels, industrialization, and carbon is doing much to imperil the “least of these.” His approach is precisely what is locking millions upon millions of people – from Bangladesh to Myanmar and beyond – in devastating poverty.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Pope Francis's peddling of climate-change nonsense would consign the poor whose plight he champions to continued poverty
Peter Heck at The Resurgent on the pontiff's recent trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh:
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Please enumerate the alleged bizarre and unhelpful social doctrine Pope Francis espouses that fly in the face of biblical morality. Studied opinions on climate change are not immoral, biblical or otherwise. Taking a stand for world peace which is a no brainer with Trump's edict (not endorsed stateside, nor by most of the rest of the world, free or not free, friend or foe)does not pertain to morality unless it is thou shalt not kill of which there will likely be a lot more of since the edict.
ReplyDeleteIf you try to claim he endorses homosexuality, wrong. He endorses mercy and forgiveness for homosexuals, transsexuals and all perverts, male female and ?
ReplyDeleteGo all the way back to 1948 and you will find that all popes have been neutral. Benedict before Francis supported a 2 state solution, so if Francis is "immoral" in this regard, so are the preceding Popes. That's the thing you cons do not understand, Francis does not operate at all in a vacuum unless it's trying to promote love and mercy for sinners, which sure riles the perfect.
ReplyDeleteBut Donnie can go right ahead with the move. Doesn't look like countries are getting in live to move with his exceptional edict from our exceptional land.
ReplyDeleteThe topic of this post is the Pope's remarks on the climate during his trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh.
ReplyDeleteOh, I must have misread the first sentence of your linked article which, by the way, shows substantial ignorance on these issue. Here it is again: "Unfortunately, cultural alliance with the Pontiff is becoming increasingly difficult as Pope Francis insists on embracing bizarre and unhelpful social doctrine that flies in the face of biblical morality."
ReplyDeleteSo Einstein, please answer my question(s) (probably more to follow) Thank you and have a blessed day.
The following statements on climate change are from the Catholic church and its representatives; they go to 2008. Francis was installed in 2013, I repeat. The Popes do not operate in a vacuum. Do not expect his successor(s) to do any radical about-faces to please the eye and ear of Mammon. What does your denomination have to say about climate change?
ReplyDelete◦Cardinal RodrÃguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis, 2014 statement:
“When hunger and poverty turn every day into a battle for survival, climate change loads the dice against the poor… Through our model of progressing and growing – especially the use of fossil fuels – we have had a decisive impact on the natural world. Lands, forests, deserts, glaciers, rivers and seas are changing. Whether through poor harvests, arid land, acidic oceans or more extreme and unpredictable weather events (often, disastrous), the impact of the changing climate is unmistakable, is scientifically proven beyond doubt and affects us all.”
“In a world with enough food for everyone but close to one billion people going hungry, climate change threatens to put an extra 20% of the world’s population at risk of hunger by 2050 … We have become indifferent to the damage we are doing, both to the natural world and to our poorest brothers and sisters.”
◦Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2011 report:
“We call on all people and nations to recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses. We appeal to all nations to develop and implement, without delay, effective and fair policies to reduce the causes and impacts of climate change on communities and ecosystems. (…) We are aware that, if we want justice and peace, we must protect the habitat that sustains us.”
◦Catholic Bishops’ 2008 statement:
We, Catholic Bishops from the south and the north, (…) are deeply concerned by the disproportionate impact human induced climate change is having on poor and vulnerable people living in developing countries. Poor communities in developing countries are subject to the harshest effects of climate change, though they have done least to cause it. (…) It is our moral obligation to take urgent action to tackle climate change and to do so in support of those most affected.
For a more comprehensive compilation of all relevant Catholic teachings and statements, check these resources of our friends from the US-based Catholic Climate Covenant. See also: Climate Change Facts."
http://catholicclimatemovement.global/statements-on-climate-change-from-other-catholic-institutions-and-voices/
Anyhow, I was trying to think of what otjer immorality you'd claim the Pope was peddling when I brought homosexuality and Jerusalem into the dialogue. You can skip those two and just give me two more new ones, OK?
ReplyDeleteWell, all those pronouncements about "climate change" are pathetically mistaken. It's especially ironic that they tie the world's poor to "climate change," given what the subject of the post is, namely, that making poor nations do without the benefits of oil and coal relegates them to continued poverty.
ReplyDeleteAnybody who assumes "climate change" as a given after all the discrediting of it that's accumulated looks silly in the extreme.
And, okay, I'll address the homosexuality thing - or rather let Steve Skojac at the excellent website OnePeterFive address it:
ReplyDeletehttps://onepeterfive.com/pope-francis-doubles-down-on-who-am-i-to-judge/
Francis asserts that “One can condemn, [homosexual people/behaviors] but not for theological reasons…” Of course, this is absolutely false. Not only can we condemn sodomy, we must if we wish to exercise an authentic pastoral care and concern for souls. It is never an act of love to confirm people in their sin. An understanding the theological implications of sodomy — and in particular, why it is so offensive to God — is an important part of any effective approach to evangelization on this issue.
Going further, Francis insisted that the Church must “ask forgiveness to the gay person who is offended.” Not just to apologize, he made emphatically clear, but to seek pardon.
Forgiveness for what, exactly, Your Holiness? For keeping Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22-28, and Leviticus 20:13 in the Catholic Bible? Or for that matter, for including in the canon of the New Testament the passages of Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, Galatians 5:19-21, 1 Timothy 1:9–10, and Jude 1:7? For classing sodomy as one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance? For consistently preaching that those who engage in sodomy should repent, so that they do not lose their eternal souls? For loving those who suffer from temptations to sodomy enough to call them to conversion?
Oh God, another anti-Catholic rant. Francis is merely attempting to implement the reforms of the 2nd Vatican Council over 60 years ago when a world-wide council of bishops and archbishops tried to implement aggiornamento by opening the windows and letting the fresh air of love, forgiveness and mercy prevail. Ecumenical efforts were halted by the conservative arm of the church and we've gotten nowhere, really. Oh well, go forth to love and serve the Lord as his Spirit so-inclines you through that still small voice. Nobody's condemning you. Why do you condemn others?
ReplyDeleteAnd if you get off on condemnation, I'll try to find some elucidation to what Francis allegedly said that freaked the judgers out so. I had already predicted that you would zoom in on the homosexuality angle. I work with homosexuals, play with homosexuals, do just about everything but sleep with them (I'll pass, I have my own sexual sin to deal with, it's called libido). I even have a brother and a nephew who are homosexuals. Tell me, when and how do I condemn them? I kinda thought that was God's job.
ReplyDeleteSo we got his position on climate change which I have already established pre-dates Francis' installation. We got his views on Palestine which long precedes his papacy. And we got the homosexual angle. Anything elss to add to his moral shit pile?
ReplyDeleteThe Pope is not an economist. That's Mammon. He won't hurt a flea and sure can't hurt Big Money.
ReplyDeleteYou most certainly should not condemn your brother and nephew and coworkers. You should pray that they lay their sin at the foot of the cross.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't I ask them to blog here to hear your message, because that is not my message. Go for it with your friends and co-workers and let me know how it goes, then I might have to arrange lunch with you and my wayward friends, relatives and co-workers so you can instruct and direct them. OK?
ReplyDeleteIf Pope Francis said condemnation of homosexuality was not theological, well, he's dumber than I am. Imagine that, a Jesuit, Cardinal and then Pope, dumber than I am about the bible. Does it count that he said the catechism is the guide? Believe it or not, the catechism is very biblical and full of citations and references to prove it.
ReplyDeleteI repeat, anything else to add to Pope Francis' list of depravities?
ReplyDeleteNot at present.
ReplyDeleteKeep me posted. Francis' poll numbers are favorable for 90% of Catholics and 70% of all. Not bad but it doesn't matter, of course. He has not spoken ex. cathedra on these issues so his statements are not considered infallible.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it about Peter Heck that makes him an authority on Pope Francis?
ReplyDeleteYou're both Hoosiers & Protestants who read and write a lot of conservative views. He is a high school teacher and you are an adjunct professor. What else qualifies you both to make smart ass statements about the current pope?
ReplyDeleteWe are well-informed and driven by principle.
ReplyDeleteYou yourself said these were not ex cathedra positions, so they are just the viewpoint of a guy, basically. Therefore, it is perfectly legitimate to call them our as very faulty positions.
I knew experience did not enter the picture.
ReplyDeleteStill looking for what Heck calls bizarre and unhelpful social doctrine which you state is "peddled" by this Pope that flies in the face of biblical morality.
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