Posted on 06/05/2017 3:17:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris agreement has attracted scathing comments from world leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, and pretty much everyone who doesn’t want to do terrible damage to our planet.
The decision has even drawn the wrath of the Vatican, which Trump visited just last week. Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, made his critical remarks known in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
“Thinking that we need and must rely on coal and oil is like claiming that the Earth is not round. It’s an absurdity brought forward only to make money,” Sanchez Sorondo stated. “I believe that oil lobbyists are behind this decision. They are pushing for it. Big oil is pulling Trump’s strings and he can’t oppose them, although this doesn’t mean he wants to.”
In his state visit to the Vatican, Pope Francis gifted Trump a copy of his encyclical on climate change, which he wrote himself. Trump also discussed climate change with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State for the Vatican. Trump promised to think about his discussion with the Bishop of Rome, but clearly he didn’t think hard enough. Bishop Sanchez Sorondo describes the decision as a “huge slap in the face” for the Vatican. The Bishop stressed how the decision goes against basic scientific facts. He described Trump’s vision of climate change as “not only a calamity but also completely anti-science. It’s a disaster for everyone.”
This is not the first time that Republican politicians have found themselves at odds with the Argentinian Pope. During Pope Francis’ official visit to the United States in 2015, prominent members of the GOP criticized the Pope for his defense of the environment. Rick Santorum famously told the Pope to leave the “science to scientists.”
This is tragically ignorant for two reasons. First, there’s an overwhelming consensus among scientists that climate change is real, we are the cause, and we are running out of time to do something about it. Second, Pope Francis is a certified chemical technician and worked in a chemical lab before entering the seminar.
Whatever happened to Christian humility?
Imagine the Catholic church defending fake science...
Oh wait
There must be some money in it for them.
God made us where our largest organ is a wall.
Sure wish I knew what was wrong with this forum. I have to click on refresh a bunch of times to get it to work far too often.
Anyway, as someone who raised Catholic, I’m pretty much sick of hearing from this Pope and the Catholic church. They apparently think they have to weigh in on everything. They need to decide whether they are going to be politicians or priests. Pick one and stick with it.
Actually, that was sarcasm, they don’t have a choice; they are priests who want to act like they are also politicians lately.
What is the Vatican’s stake in endorsing the Paris pact? It is apparent that theology isn’t the primary focus for this collectivist pope.
As if we needed more proof that getting out of the Paris climate accord was the right thing to do!!
Ping!
Ask the Pope how exempting China and India will do anything about “climate change”.
Why, it is almost as stupid as saying that the current pope really is a Catholic, and a servant of God.
I am a Catholic but bishop sorondo must have forgotten that it was the Catholic Church that persecuted real scientists with whom they disagreed.
The sun does not revolve around the earth...oooppppssss, the Pope got it wrong.
Listening to pompous, fat old, Bishops that have been waited on, hand and foot for years spouting 'science' is a waste of time and enegry.
Stupid is doing that stupid thing your enemy is trying to convince you you’re stupid for not doing.
“When I want scientific opinion I go straight to the Vatican” - said no one.
This guy is the antichrist meant to destroy the catholic church .
Why did the other pope step down again ?
Was he force ?
This creature is a left wing Plant meant to kill off the Catholic church .
This plan is working.
If THIS pope thinks it’s wrong then that’s MORE proof it was the right thing to do!
Another example of papal arrogance. Some Christian. /sarc
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