Pope Francis: Climate Change Action Can’t Wait

CBS Baltimore ^ | 23 Sep 15 | AP

[xzins]

Jumping into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that “can no longer be left to a future generation.” President Barack Obama, in turn, hailed the pontiff as a moral force who is “shaking us out of our complacency” with reminders to care for the poor and the planet.

The White House mustered all the pageantry it had to offer as the pope arrived at the White House before an adoring crowd of thousands and a nation that seemingly cannot get enough of the humble pontiff who is rejuvenating American Catholicism while giving heartburn to some of its conservatives.

Speaking in a soft voice and halting English, Francis delivered a strong message against those who doubt the science of climate change, saying that the warming planet “demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition” of conditions awaiting today’s children.

It was a message sure to delight the Obama White House, and liberals in general. But the pope’s message had something for conservatives, too, with a pointed call to protect religious liberties — “one of America’s most precious possessions.”

[daniel1212]

What we need is a huge fire extinguisher to put out that big ball of fire in the sky.

The only global warming that is to be feared (the trumped up kind would overall ultimately be positive) is that which God speaks of:

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. (Revelation 16:8-9)

[Cymbaline]

Global Warming - We MUST ACT NOW!!!
The extermination of Christianity in the middle east - Meh.

[manc]

Then stop going around the world in your plane and stop all A/C in the Vatican.

[RetiredArmy]

The false prophet arrives to join the anti-christ of Amerika so they can begin to figure out how to trim 7 billion off the rolls of the living so they can get the world population down to 500 million, the figure the one worlders believe is the population the world can sustain. That is why the love abortion so much. To cull the population.

[manc]

He seems to not understand that he is not my religion, nor does he have to spout this global warming crap. That is politics. He needs to shut the hell up and preach his religion like abortion , marriage etc, not a fake science called global warming.

[donna]

...Genesis 8:22, we’re told of a promise by God never to use global floodwaters again as a means of destroying life on Earth. In that promise, the Bible explicitly states:

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/11/44378/#CBSC0smZspQvS7gB.99

[RetiredArmy]

Yes, he has. He did when he said that all atheists will go to heaven by their works!!! NOBODY goes to heaven by works. You only get to heaven by believing in the LORD Jesus Christ and His death, burial and resurrection!!! Defeating death, hell and the grave. The Catholic Poop is dead wrong, and unless he repents, he is headed to the same place as the atheists are, hell.

[EEGator]

My mistake, thank you for the correction.

[Jmouse007]

This so-called "vickar of Christ on earth" is nothing but a FOOL and HERETIC according to Romans chapter 1:18 - 25

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was DARKENED. 22 Professing to be WISE, they became FOOLS, 23 and EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD FOR AN IMAGE in the form of CORRUPTIBLE MAN and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 FOR THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE RATHER THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOREVER. Amen. (Romans 1:18 - 25 NASB [Emphasis Added])

Roman Catholic's and the world at large have exchanged God, for a "corruptible man": the so-called" heretic "pope".

The so-called heritic "pope" does not honor or give thanks to Almighty God; the sovereign creator of the universe. Therefore, Almighty God has in judgment allowed this mere, mortal, "corruptible man" to become "FUTILE in his speculations" because his "FOOLISH HEART" has been "DARKENED" by God. He professes to be WISE, but has became a FOOL, because he has "EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD FOR AN IMAGE": in this case; the glorification of himself and "mother earth"!

This so-called "pope" has EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE, AND WORSHIPPS AND SERVES THE CREATURE RATHER THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOREVER. Is it any wonder then that he speaks these blasphemous statements and leads countless millions to hell and to a Christless eternity all the while posing as the so-called "vicar of Christ on earth"? Tagline

[generally]

I agree with you 100%.

The government needs to get out of the “charity business.”

I miss John Paul II.

[Lucky9teen]

2 things to note:

The Atlantic reports the circling and delaying of the Pope’s landing at Joint Base Andrews was due to Obama and Biden’s tardiness.


And then Obama has the nerve to say this?

[Jmouse007]

Not so stunning when you realize this man does not know The Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Jesus said: “by their fruits you shall know them”; this so-called “pope’s” “fruits” testify to this fact and speak for themselves.

[bassmaner]

The great philosopher Geezer Butler once posed this question:

Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?

I think the answer today is unequivocally yes.

[HKMk23]

“Will have to read the book of Job tonight.”

Try 2 Thessalonians 2 with special focus on verse 10.

[Tau Food]

I guess I could have said (plural)

I'm not Catholic, but it's rare to see that kind of comment about a pope. Obviously, it's not coming from a very happy place. So, I just hope that things can get better for you.

[Lucky9teen]

I keep this link handy, whenever there is a Global Warming thread going on on Facebook. I love to post what Rush says (without saying it's from him, since people see his name and won't read), but because he's such a genius when he puts things together, I like that most people stop responding to me, after I post it.

There isn't anything, we're not close to replacing oil, not even close.  It's going to be, I don't know how long it's gonna be, but to these people oil is the modern evil. There's no thinking.  All of this is political.  They never address the fact that there's no evidence. They never address that the only concern for any of this is predictions in computer models. 

Let me ask you, if you're watching TV tonight, and your local weatherman told you what the weather was gonna be 25 years from today, would you believe it?  No!  So why do people believe what a computer model says is gonna be the climate all over the world 25 years from now?  And the only way some people could be forced to believe it is if they politicize it and tailor the message to already existing political sensibilities and opinions. And then get people in groups that liberals happen to be approve of, like world bodies like the UN or the IPCC or the National Academy of Sciences, every corrupt liberal interest group you can, get them endorsing the idea, and bammo, you turn it into a political issue, and it is unequivocally true. 

You leave it as a science issue and it doesn't exist, it falls apart, there isn't any evidence whatsoever.  And of course my big question that nobody, no liberal has ever called here to try to explain to me, and the invitation's there every day, would somebody please explain to me how you know that the climate at this moment is what is natural, normal, was intended by God, or Gaia, or whoever.  If you can explain that to me, then maybe we can talk about why any change from what it is now is a crisis.  But why, who says, how do you know that whatever the climate's doing now is what is normal?  Why is this the baseline? 

And then after you explain that, you can tell me what caused any of the ice ages.  And then after you explain that to me, you can then tell me why those ice ages ended, permitting us to live.  And then after you explain that, I'll give you something else I'm confused about that you can explain.  The point is, you can't, none of you advocates of global warming can explain any of this.  You cannot answer any of these questions.  So it has to be framed as a political issue, and you have to use the usual liberal ingredients of fearmongering and scare tactics and fascism and totalitarianism and force people, all your buddies, to accept the premise of something that isn't happening.

You start young. You infect and infiltrate the minds of young, impressionable kids. You get them scared to death that their world isn't gonna exist by the time they become adults. You got your own little army out there advancing your political agenda, and we're not even talking about science, and that's all this is.  Next you can tell me why in 1979 Newsweek's cover was The Coming Ice Age, and then five years later all of a sudden I'm watching This Week with David Brinkley, and to hell with the ice age, now we're talking global warming, in 1985.  We only had 20 years back then in 1985.  We only had 20 years.  If we didn't deal with it the next 20 years, which have come and gone, we weren't gonna be here. 

You can explain to me how in 1988, I was told we only had 10 years to save the oceans.  Last I looked, they're still there, and there's an airplane in 'em that CNN can't find.  So everything that you people on the left have been saying politically or quasi-scientifically about this is just a bunch of BS, un-provable, and only survivable if you turn it into a political issue, as you have, and tailor it to fit your already prejudiced, bigoted notions of your enemies:  corporations, conservatives, religions. Anything that has to do with God cancels out everything you believe, right?  So you gotta get rid of that, too. 

It just burns me up that they've got so many young people scared to death that the world's not gonna be here when they grow up. They're traumatized over this, and they're using fraudulent pictures of polar bears on little pieces of ice that were just made up, which has been proven, by the way, uncovered. 

[daniel1212]

And you have statements (formatting mine) as.

“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of God of the first class!

We are created children in the likeness of God and the Blood of Christ has redeemed us all! And we all have a duty to do good. And this commandment for everyone to do good, I think, is a beautiful path towards peace. If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there.”" - Pope Francis — http://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/father-the-atheists-even-the-atheists

And which Francisology is consistent with other interpretive statements subject to interpretation by RCs:

"Don't proselytize; respect others' beliefs. "We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyzes: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you,' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytizing," the pope said. — http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1403144.htm;

Plus from the first controversial interview of Francis by Scalfari, of questionable value (http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/dolan-confirms-error-scalfari-interview - yet published with Vatican permission and which the pope seemed happy with as he granted Scalfari two more interviews), are these reconstructed recollections:

"Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us." "Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good." "And I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place." - http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2013/10/01/news/pope_s_conversation_with_scalfari_english-67643118/?ref=search

[Chode]

stuff a sock in it already...

[XenaLee]

Zero mention of Jesus in his entire White House presentation. Stunning.

Oh, I'm sure this pope didn't want to insult or offend the Muslims and/or Obama by talking about Jesus.

[EternalVigilance]

I checked, and sure enough, “thou shall not steal,” has still never been amended or repealed.

That’s all the global warming scam is: Attempted theft on a gigantic, biblical, historic scale.