Posted on 06/18/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by Fay
GOPUSA Editor's Note: This story was included in today's lineup so that people could be made aware of the comments of Pope Francis. Reading this story is also a good exercise in sifting through liberal bias. Just note the sentence above for one example. According to the Associated Press, people who disagree with the liberal notion of "climage change" (used to be "global warming") are now called "climate doubters." VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he calls the "structurally perverse" economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth." In a sweeping manifesto aimed at spurring action in U.N. climate negotiations, domestic politics and everyday life, Francis explains the science of global warming, which he blames on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that he says harms the poor most. Citing Scripture and past popes' and bishops' appeals, he urges people of all faiths and no faith to undergo an awakening to save God's creation for future generations.
It's an indictment of big business and climate doubters alike. "It is not enough to balance, in the medium term, the protection of nature with financial gain, or the preservation of the environment with progress," he writes. "Halfway measures simply delay the inevitable disaster. Put simply, it is a matter of redefining our notion of progress."
Environmental scientists said the first ever encyclical, or teaching document, on the environment could have a dramatic effect on the climate debate, lending the moral authority of the immensely popular Francis to an issue that has long been cast in purely political, economic and scientific terms.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist, said the encyclical would be a "game-changer in making people think about this."
"It's not politics anymore," he said, adding that science is usually difficult for people to understand but that people respond to arguments framed by morality and ethics.
The energy lobby was quick to criticize the encyclical and its anti-fossil fuel message.
"The simple reality is that energy is the essential building block of the modern world," said Thomas Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research, a conservative free-market group. "The application of affordable energy makes everything we do - food production, manufacturing, health care, transportation, heating and air conditioning - better."
Francis said he hoped his effort would lead ordinary people in their daily lives and decision-makers at critical U.N. climate meetings later this year to a wholesale change of mind and heart, saying "both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor" must now be heard.
"This vision of `might is right' has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources end up in the hands of the first comer or the most powerful: the winner takes all," he writes. "Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus." http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/06/18/pope-francis-urges-revolution-to-save-earth-fix-perverse-economy/
Meanwhile, Christian children continue to have their heads lopped off in ISIS-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria.
Don’t say anything about THAT, “pope.” Wouldn’t want to upset your moon-god worshipping pals now, would you?
As a member of the Jesuit order he has already taken an oath of poverty. That does not stop him from spending other people’s money.
I am not Catholic, so my theological views are often polar opposites of the pope. Until now, I always respected the various popes that I didn’t agree with - I assumed they were good men and well-intentioned. Not this guy! Something is rotten in Rome!
There is a wrongful notion that "the rich" exploit "the poor". No such dynamic happens, and it is only a matter of perspective that this seems to be the commonly accepted explanation.
Face it, poor people give rich people money, and make it possible for "the rich" to exist as a class apart. In every society, there are some few that command a certain degree of distinctive difference over their fellow human beings, that a genuflection is made in their direction. Call it submission, call it admiration, call it a genuine feeling of awe, but the phenomenon does exist. Whatever level in the hierarchy an individual ends up at, that is the one that the peers of that individual have generally, by consent or just non-assertion, permitted the person to rise to in the structure.
Now, of course, we have all seen the effects of "the Peter Principle", that within a hierarchy, the individual rises to the level of his (or her) incompetence, after which there are no more promotions. And every society, admitted or not, is a hierarchy.
There is one glaring exception to this order of events, and that is what is known as the "post turtle". A protege is taken under the wing of a much more powerful individual in the hierarchy, and the promotions, for whatever reason are swift and sometimes result in the "post turtle" being artificially elevated to a position so far beyond any possible expertise, that others can only wonder how the exalted position was ever achieved.
For those of you who may still be puzzled at the term "post turtle", he didn't get up there by himself, and he sure as heck doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do up there and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him up there in the first place.
“It’s not politics anymore,”
Hope, it’s a religion, just like Islam.
Francis goes after the planet molesters.
Why don't you Mr. Pope fix your ‘perverse’ Vatican?????
So an economy based on sugar cane fields, cigar rolling and prostitution is not perverse ? (Communist Cuba).
What bullshit. Read the document.
Since Satan now an inside Vatican plant somewhere Papa Francisco now plays with balloons.
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