Posted on 07/17/2008 12:08:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday told a huge gathering of young people that they were inheriting a planet whose resources had been scarred and squandered to fuel insatiable consumption.
His latest appeal to save the planet for future generations came in a address to some 150,000 youths in Sydney after he rode through the city's harbor standing on the outdoor deck of a white ferry as dozens of boats blew their horns.
"Reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption," he told the cheering crowd.
The 81-year-old pope appeared in good form as he started the official part of his trip after three days of rest. He chatted with young people on the ferry and stepped off sprightly to receive a bear hug welcome by an Aboriginal on the dock.
He told the young people, some of whom had come from island nations threatened by rising sea levels or drought-hit nations such as Australia, that protecting the environment was "of vital importance to humanity."
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"It is as though one catches glimpses of the Genesis creation story -- light and darkness, the sun and the moon, the waters, the earth and living creatures," he said.
In a welcoming speech to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday morning, the pope said: "It is appropriate to reflect upon the kind of world we are handing on to future generations."
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APOLOGY TO ABORIGINES PRAISED
The pope also praised Australia for apologizing for past injustices to Aborigines, saying it was a courageous move to repair race relations and offered hope to the rest of the world.
Rudd officially apologized to Aborigines in February.
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Oh, please.
I gathered you would.
Not me. If he's preaching stuff not good for people (like a Pelosi message for example) I notice.
But why would the Pope come out in favor of some of the most important false propaganda currently advanced by the Marxists—envirowackism—especially at a time when the level of credibility of anthropogenic global warming theory is beginning to crumble?
He trowels it on pretty good.. but it still don’t stick.
squandering is part of the human thing, like it or not. not that it has much of an effect in the long run cosmically.
I do not think the Pope understands that his position is the Marxist position. He is being politically correct and spouting off when he really does not understand what he is talking about. His statements are exactly like the left and support the left. If you do not see or understand that, then you don't really understand the left’s talking points and ideological agenda and how he is spouting off their talking points.
That is not what he is saying. His message was we are damaging the earth by being consumers. It is an environmental BS message. His comment is right in line with Obama: we can no longer have our air conditioners on 72 degrees and eat what we want and expect the world to be ok with it.
Super atoms turn periodic table upside down: ..http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701092153.htm
Small, But Super http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/32948/title/Small,_But_Super
The Catholic Pope is preaching a religion far different than that of Jesus Christ. Just what does ‘global warming’ have to do with the salvation of souls? Leave this phony baloney to Al Gore.
The green lefties would have us greatly diminished and living like primitive tribes. They don’t seem to want to practice what they preach, either. (i.e., Al Gore) Now we have the Pope, who is supposed to be the leader of the Catholic church first and foremost rather than using his power as the head of the Vatican nation, on a Traveling Salvation Show.
Trouble is, he’s apparently not interested in God’s promise of eternal (spiritual) life through Jesus Christ; he seems to be much more interested in ‘saving the earth’. Doesn’t he read the Bible?
“... The Pope should be hammering his audiences with their need for Christ and let lesser issues go. Mankind needs Jesus, not a cleaner earth.”
Exactly. Besides he isn’t a scientist and he is only polluting the air with more stinking green rhetoric.
“Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge,” he said, “that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.” He then continued: “And we discover that not only the natural but also the social environment - the habitat we fashion for ourselves - has its scars; wounds indicating that something is amiss.”
He noted problems, such as “alcohol and drug abuse, and the exaltation of violence and sexual degradation, often presented through television and the internet as entertainment.”
The Holy Father returned to the theme of the “social environment” in the powerful conclusion to his remarks. He said: “But what of our social environment? Are we equally alert to the signs of turning our back on the moral structure with which God has endowed humanity? Do we recognize that the innate dignity of every individual rests on his or her deepest identity - as image of the Creator - and therefore that human rights are universal, based on the natural law, and not something dependent upon negotiation or patronage, let alone compromise?”
In the end, Pope Benedict offered a summary statement, which cuts to the heart of the liberal vs. faithful Catholic debate. While left-leaning Catholics do concern themselves with important ‘social justice’ issues, they eschew or minimize fighting for the right to life of the unborn, equating abortion with unemployment, poverty or environmentally damaging mining practices.
Faithful Catholics, however, while recognizing the importance of caring for the poor, the environment and peace, understand that the right to life is preeminent.
“The concerns for non-violence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection upon the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable,” he said.
Well fooman, if you read the speech in context, your freeper friends are correct. The Pope was actually using this as a tie-in so as to NOT trump the sanctity of life by the enviro stuff..
That makes a lot of sense -- if wered defining what one should possess no more than he actually needs. But the man preaching it doesn't exactly live in two rooms and a bath or ride around in a volkswagon bug: which, if you think about it, is quite adequate for a single man his age. And how about the Cardinals -- the "Princes of the Church?" In my mind,same should apply to them, shouldn't it? And so on down the line. I am not saying that in any way to be bashing -- only to again ask -- where does this evil over comsumption start, and who sets that line?
Then he ought to let us in on it. I would really like to know what his thinking is along those lines -- and why.
Reasonable conservation isn't what the enviro-mental movement is about. It's about socialism.
The pope should be smart enough to know that.
LOL< well you do make some interesting points there.
BTTT
Those things are much more of a danger to human beings than 'global warming'. Sorry, but it seems like the pope just bowed to pressure from the politically correct crowd.
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