Posted on 10/09/2023 9:12:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible.
But then I read Pope Francis’ updated encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is fallible. In fact, the declaration is so filled with anti-Christian fallacies that one has to wonder whether we have a pope that is actually Catholic.
Pope Francis was full of doom and gloom as he warned that the Earth is “collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point” because of climate change. He takes a metaphorical ruler and whacks the knuckles of climate “skeptics” who are preventing the draconian/statist actions that are apparently necessary to cool the planet off. What comes next for the “deniers”? A knock on the door from the Spanish Inquisition.
The pope has given a new voice to the “blame America first” globalists and denounces Americans’ “irresponsible lifestyles” for the ruination of the planet.
What about China? Amazingly, the pope pointedly gives the world’s greatest polluter a free pass. He declares that “emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries.” This is naked appeasement to a country with some of the worst human rights violations on the planet. President Xi Jinping is loving life right now.
It’s also intentionally lying with twisted statistics. Yes, the U.S. has more emissions and uses more energy than many other nations, but that is because we produce far more output per capita than all other nations except China. It’s the reason the United States is the breadbasket of the world. Africa doesn’t use much energy. And that’s why it is a desperately poor continent. The solution isn’t for the U.S. to consume less energy, but for poor nations to have access to much more energy.
As Catholics, we are taught to help the least among us to help end poverty, hunger and deprivation, but the primary victims of the environmentalists’ crusade against fossil fuels will be those in the poorest nations of Africa and Asia — deprived of cheap and reliable power from coal and natural gas.
China, meanwhile, emits two times more greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere than America — but we are the problem, not them.
Worst of all, we now have a Vatican that has aligned itself with the radical “limits to growth” theology of leftist environmentalists. The radical greens view human beings as the problem, not the solution, which is contrary to Catholic dogma that there is dignity in every human life.
Has the Vatican forgotten that the more radical voices of climate change hysteria have come right out of the sinister population control movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when we were told that the world was running out of everything and that the only solution was fewer people? This movement led to some of the most barbaric government actions of modern times: forced abortions, mandatory sterilizations of women, and brutal one-child policies.
The theology in the Pope Francis letter called “Laudate Deum,” which means “Praise God,” is a direct contradiction of the teachings of our greatest pope in modern times, John Paul II, who magnificently declared that economic freedom and human ingenuity have always been the solutions to our planetary problems and the sometimes winds of change that Mother Nature throws at us. People, he reminded all Catholics, are the greatest resource.
Another way of saying this is that the Western world’s economic affluence and our advanced “lifestyles” haven’t held back the poor countries or jeopardized civilization. We have made life on Earth profoundly better for everyone. The pope’s call for energy poverty is a call for everyone to get poorer. That hardly seems to be a very Christian solution.
If climate change really is the existential threat that the pope sermonizes that it is, we will confront this challenge the way humans have combated every problem since the days when human life on Earth was nasty, brutish and short: We will harness human know-how and new-age technologies that will tame Mother Nature’s savage outbursts.
Thanks to the freedom agenda and scientific advances, deaths from natural disasters have fallen by 90% over the past 100 years. Has anyone in the Vatican told the pope that?
Of course they are! Just as the Old Testament Kings chosen by God were human and eventually betrayed the Lord God…I have been reading the OT and find much disappointment in the human failty, especially David and Solomon. So very sad.
Human frailty….
Ping
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Says the guy who lives in the kind of *poverty* most of us could only dream of.
It smells like I stepped in something. Nope! It’s just the Pope.
The best thing that could happen to the Catholic Church is if Franky dies soon. He’s a heretic of the worst kind.
God has allowed 40+ anti popes to head the Catholic Church ,since its beginnings...Frankie is just the latest one....Annnnd the church is still standing.....
The Pope is using the image of his fugal lifestyle as a means to prop himself up in self-righteous self-importance.
Matthew 23
“The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
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So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
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They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
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“Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries [1] wide and the tassels on their garments long;
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they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
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they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.’
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“But you are not to be called `Rabbi,’ for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.”
Off his meds?
I’ll be satisfied if and when he takes a dirt nap!
He makes me wanna puke!
Some kind of cabal saw to it, he replaced the true Pope!
Absolutely disgusting human being, let alone appointed head of the Catholic faithful!
I’m not Catholic, but doesn’t the Vatican get most of their funds from the USA? Isn’t he killing the golden goose with his remarks?
FU Frankie the Fake.
The Pope has only spoken infallible on two occasions in all of Papal history,.
yes. The high price of diesel and the huge increase in the price of fertilizer is making it hard for our rice farm here in the Philippines to make a profit.
The stupid bishops officially oppose investment in Fossil Fuel... which means that they are ignoring the huge natural gas fields off the coast of Palawan within the EEZ of the Philippines that China has been trying to steal.
Yes, but IMHO this particular Pope is the product of coordinated efforts by the global left to neutralize the anti-Marxist role played by the papacy, and JPII in particular, in bringing an end to the USSR. When the USSR fell, and so many thought this was the beginning of the end for Marxism / Communism in the world, the global left went into battle mode.
They analyzed all the reasons the US and the West prevailed, and among them was religious faith and belief in the sanctity of individual human life as God's creation. They decided one way to counter this was to try to promote the ascendency of clerics with Marxist / Communist sympathies and anti-West / anti-US sentiments into positions of influence in the Church leadership.
Another reason the US and the West prevailed was the economic strength of the US, a product of Capitalism. So the global left decided to use Capitalism as a tool (e.g. China's 'state-sponsored Capitalism' competing in the world market) in order to neutralize the US and the West's economic advantages over Marxism / Communism. The political leadership of the West incorrectly thought that the controlled tolerance of nascent Capitalism and private ownership in Communist nations (most notably China) would lead to a further deterioration of Communist totalitarian power. Instead, it gave these Marxist / Communist nations greater economic power with which to push forward their agenda and tighten their totalitarian grip.
Then follow them to their destination cities and see the filth and destruction they wreak on them.
Then have a look at the rapes, drug and child and female trafficking and drunk driving vehicular homicides that they do as illegals on innocent Americans, Italians, and other Europeans where they end up.
And remember, this is all with his organized support and repeated encouragement.
PS Frank is not the legitimate pope. The whole Benedict resignation was fishy and invalid.
commie fake phoney fraud
If the dope would have said that Americans SEXUAL IMMORALS have ruined the world, I would agree with him......BUT HE DIDN’T!! He’s nothing more than a marxist1
Along with his science illiteracy, the Holy Father lacks an understanding of economics. Improvements in lifestyle have paralleled improvements in stewardship.
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