Posted on 03/30/2015 9:48:30 AM PDT by Gamecock
The Church is about to schism over Communion for the divorced and remarried and the Pope is off writing encyclicals about environmentalism. My kids deserve better than this.
I did say that, elsewhere today:
“The (Left’s) point is to give themselves the moral high ground, equating the earth to God. It’s not. Can’t be. Even if the Pope says so.
Stewardship is part of faith. Faith is much more than that.”
I see Francis’ encyclical as dangerously close to that. The HOW gets me. Who pays, etc. He goes there, and the Vatican needs to pony up.
The HOW gets me, too. HOW can you make sweeping judgments on this encyclical when it hasn't even been published yet?
I know we're all paranoid, but I say wait until you have something to quote.
I can confidently predict that 99% of the people with opinions on both sides ("Yay Francis' and "Boo Francis") will keep churning out opinions by the bushel basket without EVER reading the encyclical.
And that's what makes it so easy for the EneMedia to frame things as they see best.
Here's my own pre-publication flight of fancy: I'm betting the Pope is going to use this opportunity to defend the Natural Family based on One-Man-One-Woman Marriage; Natural Sex (no contraception, no perversion); the Right to Life of the Unborn Child; and the Biblical "human speciesism" which positions humans as being stewards of creation and therefore superior to, while responsible for, the rest of the living things God created.
If Bill and Melinda Gates aren't "troubled" by the direction Francis is taking this in, I'll be well and truly disappointed.
Prophesies will be fulfilled.
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