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Posted on 01/15/2015 6:38:43 AM PST by Citizen Zed
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Thursday he is convinced that global warming is "mostly" man-made and that he hopes his upcoming encyclical on the environment will encourage negotiators at a climate change meeting in Paris to make "courageous" decisions to protect God's creation.
Francis has spoken out frequently about the "culture of waste" that has imperiled the environment and he elaborated en route to the Philippines. While there, Francis will meet with survivors of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, which the government has said was an example of the extreme weather conditions that global warming has wrought.
"I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face," he said. "We have in a sense taken over nature."
"I think we have exploited nature too much," Francis said, citing deforestation and monoculture. "Thanks be to God that today there are voices, so many people who are speaking out about it."
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Can we weather the storm with this pope? He’s like on another planet.....looking for Utopia....and apparently he has a pen, too.
I just wish he’d shut up and not say anything about anything. He reveals himself more every day to be a completely vacuous, publicity hungry leftist.
Is “not slapping nature in the face” one of the Commandments?
Is it in the Bible somewhere?
This pope.... he needs to stick to Catholicism and stay out of economics and environmentalism and politics.
This pope.... he needs to stick to Catholicism and stay out of economics and environmentalism and politics.
I’m waiting for Il Papa to pontificate on the turmoil religion has perpetuated on mankind.
It’s like Prince Charles became Pope...
Is nature gonna punch us in the face now?
"If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said, throwing a pretend punch his way. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."[...]
-- from today's thread Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to freedom of expression when faith is insulted
Maybe he can explain to me how a methane percentage of 0.00017% in the earths atmosphere can dramatically warm up the earth because I sure as hell don’t. I had a chemist tell me if I drank a glass of water that contained 0.00017% cyanide, I would live, wouldn’t even feel it. That’s how small that number is. Yet Obama has no problem regulating the crap out of oil and gas companies using that absurdly small figure as an excuse, and is in fact doing it again. All for a gas that is a phantom he is stealing your money.
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I’m getting sick of Francis.
Another Pope fail...
The Catholic Church that I grew up in believed that man was not capable of such things. That only God had power over the climate.
This former catholic can. He's not MY "spiritual leader."
No, it’s not. God did appoint Man as the stewards of the planet. I think the Christian nations have done a good job of improving our stewardship over the past decades. Of course, we have no control over the communist (atheistic) nations like China where most of the pollution is coming from.
The Pope’s greater blindness in this matter is in thinking that Man can destroy God’s creation. We cannot. Even if we unleashed every destructive force and element we have in an attempt to destroy the earth—no doubt we could inflict some serious damage—but that damage would be temporary and the earth would endure.
Apparently, the Pope is not familiar with the amount of pollutants each moderate volcanic eruption puts out (the equivalent of all of Mans’ industrial output for the past 100 years) and that the earth has at least 17 such eruptions every year.
So, the little leftist with the funny hat gets it wrong again.
No one slaps nature in the face quite as hard as nature herself.
The Pope is committing the sin of excessive “pride” if he views man as being that omnipotent.
Taxing people trillions of dollars to fix a mythical problem will impoverish hundreds of millions, despoil the country by wind machines, kill countless birds and animals, cause rampant government corruption due to tax inflow, and lead to enslavement by tyrants as our God-given rights are trampled. That is far, far worse than anything that might be caused by a few more ppm of CO2 in the air.
So much for the infallibility of a pope. The man is an idiot.
Please, Westboro Baptsit Church: make yourselves useful and protest this moron.
He is giving Catholics a bad name.
Give it time. I wouldn’t doubt if his “Second Vatican Council” will “acknowledge” that non-Christian religions are legitimate means to sanctification.
I also wouldn’t doubt if he opens the door to unrepentant sin by declaring that salvation does not require an effort to resist temptation.
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