The Two Popes

Canada Free Press ^ | 06/21/15 | Joseph A. Klein

[Sean_Anthony]

Economic freedom, individual liberties must not be sacrificed at the altar of religious or secular dogma, that climate change is an immediate existential crisis that can only be solved by top-down dictates and controlled wealth redistribution

Pope Francis issued a lengthy encyclical last week calling for radical change in human behavior to confront climate change. He presented climate change as the moral issue of our time. “Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it,” the pope declared. “It is a mistake to rely on the ‘myths’ of a modernity grounded in a utilitarian mindset (individualism, unlimited progress, competition, consumerism, the unregulated market),” he added. While denying that anyone is suggesting a return to the Stone Age and conceding that “[T]echnoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life,” Pope Francis refused to dismiss doomsday predictions if society continues along its present path.

[livius]

The only good thing I can say about this manifesto...er, I mean, encyclical...is that the Pope appears to have jumped the shark with it. Many people are openly laughing at him, which is exactly what he deserves.

The bad thing, of course, is that he is busy destroying the brand, so to speak, of the Catholic Church and is going to take down a lot of souls with this nonsense.