Posted on 09/06/2020 9:50:25 AM PDT by ebb tide
Most popes urge austerity as a means of saving ones soul. Pope Francis urges it for a different reason: to save the planet.
The popes one-sided treatment of technology, free markets, and consumerism is astonishing.
In keeping with that temporal focus, he called this last week for humans to adopt simpler lifestyles not for reasons of spirituality but out of respect for the earth:
We also need once more to listen to the land itself, which Scripture calls adamah, the soil from which man, Adam, was made. Today we hear the voice of creation admonishing us to return to our rightful place in the natural created order to remember that we are part of this interconnected web of life, not its masters. The disintegration of biodiversity, spiralling climate disasters, and unjust impact of the current pandemic on the poor and vulnerable: all these are a wakeup call in the face of our rampant greed and consumption.
Though normally progressive, Francis, on this issue, stands against progress and exhorts man to live like our indigenous brothers and sisters. Though normally a fan of modern living, here he inveighs against it, casting Coronavirus as natures retribution:
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Eugenicist Collectivist.
Bergoglio serves a different Master.
Listen to the land, it’s calling us to live in harmony with nature, give up technology and progress, go back to a hunter/gatherer existence and live in huts and teepees.
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