Posted on 09/01/2016 1:30:26 PM PDT by No One Special
In his message for the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” Thursday, Pope Francis said that human-induced global warming, as well as a loss of biodiversity are “sins” against God, which must be atoned for by planting trees, avoiding the use of plastic and paper and “separating refuse.”
“Global warming continues, due in part to human activity,” Francis said, adding that “2015 was the warmest year on record, and 2016 will likely be warmer still.”
“This is leading to ever more severe droughts, floods, fires and extreme weather events. Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis. The world’s poor, though least responsible for climate change, are most vulnerable and already suffering its impact,” he wrote.
Repeatedly citing the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who has “courageously and prophetically continued to point out our sins against creation,” Francis made his own a new list of such environmental sins, which include pollution, global warming and deforestation.
For human beings to “destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation,” to “degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate,” to “contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life–these are sins,” he wrote.
Summing up, the Pope stated that “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.”
Lamenting “the devastation of the environment,” Francis said that “God gave us a bountiful garden, but we have turned it into a polluted wasteland of debris, desolation and filth.”
Specifically regarding a loss of biodiversity, the Pope suggested that now there are fewer species to give glory to God.
“We must not be indifferent or resigned to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of ecosystems, often caused by our irresponsible and selfish behavior,”
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Pope Francis is a joke.
He’s an Argentinian - that ‘splains it all. I worked in Argie for two years. I learned that if you don’t expect much, you won’t be disappointed.
F$^K the Pope.
I’ve been recycling since 1973.
Maybe that’s why this summer was unusually cool stunting the growth of food in my garden.
Shivering and hungry in August isn’t my idea of heaven.
So this current occupant of the Chair of Peter has turned the Church into the Church of The Environment where deviant behavior is not a sin but using plastic bags is.
He and we worship an omnipotent God who created all things and called them good. He created earth, along with man, and provides for a natural order to care for the life of the earth. To accept the concept of global change is fine, for earth is in a constant state of change and has been since creation. To believe man is the cause of this change is to say man is God. Surely the Pope has a stronger faith in God than this story implies.
HODOR
Time for a recall on this clown
I’m not a Catholic, or any other religion for that matter, but I gotta say that I miss Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict very much.
This guy is just false.
Touche!
Was there something in his statement suggesting people should have more gay sex, too?
Francis make sure you don’t fall into the SCHISM ahead.
Oh wait1 you don’t care about that do you?
What a mistake this guy was.
Soros. Yes. Infiltrating institutions with useful idiots and compensated fellow travellers.
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