Posted on 07/06/2015 11:57:26 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Many times quotations are truncated to change the original meaning. When the larger quote is examined, a very different meaning often emerges. For example, most say, “Money is the root of all evil” when the full quote of Timothy 6:10 is “The love of money is the root of all evil”. This addition creates a very different emphasis and perspective.
Lord Acton’s quote that “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely” is similarly altered by the sentence that follows, “Great men are almost always bad men.” A frequently used quote in the climate debate quotes in “Science Under Siege” by Michael Fumento is Senator Timothy Wirth’s, "“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing. . ."
When you add the latter part of the sentence that says, “in terms of economic policy and environmental policy ” a different understanding emerges. What is the “economic policy”? The answer is the economic redistribution of wealth by the government, or socialism. Now the quote parallels what Pope Francis is identifying in his Encyclical “Laudato Si”.
Global warming was always that, the problem is most people still don’t know, although there are signs they are learning. The recent Pew Center poll indicates more people recognize global warming as a political issue. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
Most don’t know that the objectives of the United Nations Environment Program, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were to demand population reduction because too many people were using too many resources and destroying the Earth.
The person who believed this vehemently was Hans Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) so he became a senior advisor to the Vatican. He is a member of the IPCC, which might explain his appointment, but It might also be due to his beliefs as a Pantheist, which one dictionary defines as:
"the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God’s personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature."
Precisely.
Pope Che is a watermelon.
Green out the outside, red on the inside.
real insight. thanks for the post.
BTTT.
The letter from which the Acton quote is taken is interesting in its entirety.
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165acton.html
Thanks for the link.
He’s not even attempting to reconcile wealth with security and self defense.
We owe it to God to keep ourselves alive, so we can love Him and each other.
Where is that a priority?
“Not everyone is buying into the climate change hysteria, however. In fact, a man by the name of Maurice Newman, who serves as a business adviser to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, recently wrote in a column for The Australian that he believes the climate change agenda is part of the United Nations’ goal to establish a new world order.
On the topic of climate change, Mr. Newman wrote, “This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the U.N. It is opposed to capitalism and freedom and has made environmental catastrophism a household topic to achieve its objective.”
http://lasttrumpetnewsletter.org/2015/06_15.html
“... it has become increasingly common for churches to embrace environmental issues and preach against climate change. Now, perhaps the most prominent religious figure in the world, Pope Francis, has published a papal letter, which he has addressed to every person alive in the world today.
The rather longwinded letter, Laudato Si, calls on every person to embrace an environmentalist ideology and forgo many of the comforts, such as air conditioning, that folks have grown accustomed to. (6) “Humanity is called to take note of the need for changes in lifestyle and changes in methods of production and consumption to combat this warming, or at least the human causes that produce and accentuate it,” Pope Francis wrote. (7) In his letter, the Pope uses the issue of climate change and global warming as a means to unite the entire world. “Beginning in the middle of the last century and overcoming many difficulties, there has been a growing conviction that our planet is a homeland and that humanity is one people living in a common home. An interdependent world not only makes us more conscious of the negative effects of certain lifestyles and models of production and consumption which affect us all; more importantly, it motivates us to ensure that solutions are proposed from a global perspective, and not simply to defend the interests of a few countries. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan,” Francis wrote in the fifth chapter of his letter.
Further on in the letter, Pope Francis declares the need for a new global authority which would be used to oversee national governments. “The twenty-first century, while maintaining systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tends to prevail over the political.
Given this situation, it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions,” the letter states. (8)
We must consider this man’s words carefully. He is talking about the establishment of an authority that would rule over every country in the world and have the ability to impose sanctions on countries that refuse to go along with their climate change agenda!
If you read between the lines, this Pope is talking about a one world government, which, in all likelihood, would work in concert with his one world religion. It is beyond the obvious that the climate change controversy is being used as a means to control the people and force the masses to bend to the will of the impending power structure that Francis is trying to set up.”
http://lasttrumpetnewsletter.org/2015/07_15.html
As a practicing Roman Catholic I feel I need to remind everyone that this institution has had all kinds of bad Popes and when they forget the admonition “My Kingdom Is Not Of This World” .This church gets into all sorts of trouble. But survives.
These meandering homilys of This pope on temporal matters diffuse any theologic message Pope Francis offers. Snowballs should be thrown at those pointy hat supporters of his as well. But opposition should be clearly expressed to those meanderings during any visit Francis will make here.
Ironically, most experts are calling for a global population to level out in 2050 and start to decline. The problem will solve itself.
All their alarmist warnings have been false. Their promises of a climatic Armageddon have been wrong. They lie with impunity. This problem is the same as Y2K, with far too much alarmism for a problem that deserved a lot less. Stop worrying about anthropogenic global warming, and it will solve itself.
The pope is a tool.
Global warming is 99% politics 1% science.
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