Posted on 03/14/2019 11:51:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I put this in News/Activism because it is basically Activism, not Religion. I used the URL of one of my links. I hope this is OK.
Your thoughts?
Well done.
Bookmark!
You were very polite, and gave far more details than 999 out of 1000 people would give.
I would simply say “stop preaching on the political headlines of the day. Environmentalism, particularly climate change, is a neo-Marxist, worldly trap. The Church has stopped asking for individuals to conform to Christ. It dare note insult anyone by preaching about individual sin. Everything we hear now is about collective sin, which belongs to the realm of politics.”
Otherwise, great job.
Not to mention that the Climate Change fraud is warmed over, anti-Christian, Zero-Population Growth nonsense, used to continue oppression of the third world.
Let the Vatican "sin-deniers" take a stroll over to their own planetary observatory and ponder the Maunder Minimum.
BRAVO!!!
Your best letter ever, with the highlight (or nadir?) to me being the part exposing certain public Catholics and their despicable acts.
Good letter.
I assume you don’t expect a reply, but should that unexpectedly occur would you post it?
I’m sure it will be - interesting...
This is no way to campaign for a slot on the parish council.
Just an observation.
Those Catholics who are “environmentally aware”, can be found recycling, turning their thermostats down, changing their eating habbits and in other forms, doing what they can to “save the planet”.
Yet for many of these same people, personally giving to the poor, personally feeding the hungry, personally reading scripture, personally praying, personally going to reconciliation, personally going to Mass, is just too much trouble.
Are some of our Catholic brother and sisters praying to the Golden Calf? The efforts expended seem to say yes.
And if the Church pushes “environmentalism”, is the church guilty of helping the flock pray to the Golden Calf rather then our Lord an Savior?
Just some things to ponder among ourselves as I don’t think this will be brought up at the pulpit any time soon.
BTW, I love all the hard data you used in your letter. Great stuff.
Wonderful! Well-stated and to the point. Thank you!
Yes, well done!
When the globalists want something they make it go GLOBAL! Everybody must be with the program—EVERYBODY! This will be followed up by many Ocasio-Cortez type of the world is ending in twelve years nonsense. Recognize how the devil works. He is trying to co-opt Lent with a false Christianity and no doubt trying to cause division in the church.
Well done!
Thank you, and excellent job.
Excellent! Hopefully you won’t be excommunicated. ;-)
I can’t see that message sitting well with Sullivan County (or neighboring) parishoners. Either it must’ve been forced from on high or your pastor is unbelievably tone deaf.
(Or that part of the world has changed...and not for the good)
I’ve seen this average car producing 5.5 tons of CO2 per year figure tossed around for years from the Climate alarmists but never really seen it challenged. I’m going to.
The average American drives ~250 miles per week times 52 weeks per year for a total of 13,000 miles per year. Males drive a bit more and females a bit less. . . but that’s close. In 2018, the national fleet average was about 25 miles per gallon of fuel. Therefore, the average driver in the average car in America used 520 gallons of fuel per year. Gasoline weighs 6.183 pounds per gallon (for our purposes we shall ignore diesel fueled vehicles which use 6.8 lbs per gallon fuel). The total weight of the gasoline consumed, if it reaches 100% cumbustion, is ~3,215 pounds, or ~1.6 tons.
If we were to assume that 100% of that gasoline weight was made of Carbon atoms (atomic mass ~12) which then combined with two Oxygen atoms (atomic mass ~16 each), then you get the approximate 5.5 tons of CO2 per year. . . However, ~20% of that gasoline weight is made up of Hydrogen which burns to H2O, water, as exhaust, not CO2. That brings the 5.5 tons down to 4.4 tons of CO2, but we’re used to the alarmist fudging their figures, aren’t we? I guess they figure it’s close enough for government work.
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