Posted on 10/16/2017 5:22:29 PM PDT by marshmallow
In a remarkable new statement from the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, “encroaching environmental stress” is leading to mass displacement of peoples and causing “the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.”
Plugging an upcoming Vatican conference bearing the provocative title “Youth as Stewards of Our Planet for a More Fraternal and Supportive Society,” Argentinian Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo states that the key challenge facing the world today is how to reorganize social and economic life within and between nations to better inculcate higher values.
These values, “contemplation, prayer, community, equity, solidarity, fraternity, trust, and environmental sustainability,” Sanchez writes in the brochure outlining the conference, are “the values that create real rather than deceptive happiness.”
The Bishop does not reveal how he believes one ought to “reorganize social and economic life within and between nations” to better inculcate the values of contemplation and prayer, which might seem to many to be beyond the purview of social and economic “reorganization.”
He also fails to elaborate on how environmental sustainability creates “real” happiness.
This conference organized by Bishop Sanchez Sorondo is only the latest in a long string of such events, which regularly deal with related topics such as biodiversity, population and global warming.
Earlier this year, for a workshop on biological extinction, Bishop Sanchez invited renowned population hoaxer Paul Ehrlich, who gained celebrity status through the publication of his 1968 doomsday bestseller, The Population Bomb.
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Same could be said for any soul before that soul is born again.
You serve God or the devil. Whatever colorful language you want to state “devil” in, this stark truth remains true.
Be prepared to do what?
You have an utterly distorted perception of that, I fear.
And you are going to KEEP on having an utterly distorted perception of that, until you experience the gospel desire in your heart.
The desire can wax and wane, but if you refuse to cherish even a memory of it, you’re going to be storing things of privacy and hate, rather than sharing and love. The Christian should be a walking advertisement for Christ.
And so as for me... I hunger that the world might be saved.
Maybe you hunger that you will be able to hole up as a lone soul somewhere in this lost and damned world, and fend off all others so you can die as such a lone soul, unbothered, unburdened.
The devil is giving the advice for the latter. Call him Satan, Moloch, whatever... the devil may be in the details, as to what very good thing is pointlessly sacrificed... but a very good thing in fact is. Here’s a big secret: No meeting that the Christian has is a random meeting. Each person met means something chosen by the Lord. I have found much of my protection to be supernatural rather than initiated by me. And the more filled with Christ a person is, the more of his or her protection will be supernatural.
I speak to you as one who warns. The warning may be heeded or spurned, but I warn.
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