Posted on 03/14/2014 9:51:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I am the editor of our tiny monthly parish newsletter. My pastor, with whom I have a pretty fair relationship, has just directed me to devote the April issue to Earth Day, the Environment, and Climate Change. He included a link to a compostable, shovel-ready statement by Bp Stephen Blair. I am aghast.
I don't wish to fight my pastor about this --- being a busy man, I doubt he has much of an opinion on "Climate" one way or the other, aside from what parish Greenies tell him. Bless their hearts.
Therefore I'm looking for articles which will take a recognizably Catholic point of view (i.e. opposite of Bishop Blair's boilerplate Earth Day cheerleading) --- distinguish between prudential judgments and moral absolutes, explain the limits of episcopal competence, and generally equip us against Enviro-Fraud, IPCC totalitarianism, and Eco-Idiocy.
I've heard that Benedict XVI had some good stuff about a non-Leftaroo, prudent Stewardship and Biblical Creation Care in several encyclicals, but I need to know exactly where to find it.
Please send me your best links to articles I could link to, crib from, or be guided by.
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Trusting your quick minds and good judgment.
Hm?
Gensis is a good place to start where God tells us to take care of the earth as we use it wisely. Let your Gaia worshiping folks think about that for a while.
Why don’t you resign from your post in protest?
6:12-21 God told Noah his purpose to destroy the wicked world by water. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, Ps 25:14. It is with all believers, enabling them to understand and apply the declarations and warnings of the written word. God chose to do it by a flood of waters, which should drown the world. As he chooses the rod with which he corrects his children, so he chooses the sword with which he cuts off his enemies. God established his covenant with Noah. This is the first place in the Bible where the word ‘covenant’ is found; it seems to mean, 1. The covenant of providence; that the course of nature shall be continued to the end of time. 2. The covenant of grace; that God would be a God to Noah, and that out of his seed God would take to himself a people. God directed Noah to make an ark. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted to float upon the waters. It was very large, half the size of St. Paul’s cathedral, and would hold more than eighteen of the largest ships now used. God could have secured Noah without putting him to any care, or pains, or trouble; but employed him in making that which was to be the means to preserve him, for the trial of his faith and obedience. Both the providence of God, and the grace of God, own and crown the obedient and diligent. God gave Noah particular orders how to make the ark, which could not therefore but be well fitted for the purpose. God promised Noah that he and his family should be kept alive in the ark. What we do in obedience to God, we and our families are likely to have the benefit of. The piety of parents gets their children good in this life, and furthers them in the way to eternal life, if they improve it.
People, fix your wicked ways or there will be global warming, melting ice bergs, and viola — FLOODS.
Is a pastor different from a Priest?
“Subverting the Dominant Paradigm” and “Speaking Truth to Power” can be a lot more rewarding than merely resigning in protest.
Try some typical searches “global warming catholic”, “catholic view global warming” etc.— I did a quick search and it’s amazing how much material is out there, and even more amazing that somehow many Catholics seem to think global warming is part of their religion, but there are a few others out there, you will need to week through the hits.
...”weed through”...
Vatican invoked on climate change
US cardinal urges Catholics to take ‘St. Francis Pledge’ on climate change
Nature Must Not be Valued Above Man, Pope Warns
Pope calls for action on climate change
Encycli-bites for reading “Caritas in veritate”
Climate forest makes Vatican the first carbon-neutral state
Interfaith Power and Light: Protecting God's environment
Why is the Vatican Backing Climate Change Theory?
Pope Issues New Green Message for World's Catholics
Religious groups see environmentalism as moral issue [Unitarians/Catholics/Evangelicals]
Bishop warns of 'collective sins,' urges Catholics to protect the environment
Lent a time to "decontaminate" souls, Pope says
Take care of nature and nature will take care of you: Papal envoy
Pope warns against environmental damage, says it burdens world's poor
I always make it a point to say that I support defending the environment. The Bible basically indicates that man is the highest of God’s earthly creatures, which doesn’t mean that he can do whatever he wants but that he has a duty to act as a caretaker of all the beasts and plants under him.
But support for the environment is one thing. Letting yourself be taken in by bad science and crony capitalists who make tons of money on stuff like “carbon credits” is something else. It is our responsibility to think for ourselves, not be taken in by climate scammers.
I don’t know how much you can say along those lines, but I would be clear that you are NOT condoning damage to the environment. Just lemming-like behavior.
God also commanded us to seek wisdom, and not to just follow the latest trend.
A science-based rebuttal to global warming alarmism
Could data rebut global warming?
Record Freezing Weather Puts Serious Crimp In Global Warming Argument
Does New Tree Ring Study Put the Chill on Global Warming?
Freeze pushes Great Lakes ice cover toward '79 record
[Lord] Monckton’s Schenectady showdown
"The news that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the university’s environmentalists into a turmoil. The campus environmentalists set up a Facebook page announcing a counter-meeting of their own immediately following Monckton’s lecture. There is no debate about global warming, they announced. There is a consensus. The science is settled. Their meeting would be addressed by professors and PhDs, the “true” scientists, no less. Sparks, it seemed, were gonna fly."
That last article is at the Watts Up With That? … website, which could be a worthwhile resource for you.
Are you the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
???
I don’t remember him regurgitating leftist academic claptrap, but I wasn’t a regular viewer. Maybe I missed something?
Or maybe “a week to weed through the hits”.
2006: Catholic Cardinal George Pell: ‘In the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in Co2 emissions’
Climate Depot Flashback: ‘Faith-Based Climate Astrology’: ‘Events which used to be called ‘acts of God’ or Mother Nature, are now being blamed on mankind’s emissions of a trace essential gas (CO2) in the atmosphere that we exhale from our mouths’
I actually considered saying I’d gladly let the Greenies take over the April issue as guest editors. but then I thought, No. I want to have a hand in this: specifically, an editor’s hand. It doesn’t make any sense for me to forego the opportunity to choose (and unchoose) what we publish as I see fit. After all, it’s my job.
As T. Jefferson said, "Error may be tolerated as long as Truth is free to combat it." Or, as it is rightly noted: the cure for bad speech is good speech.
Pope Benedict trumps Bishop Blaire any day: and I think Benedict wrote some stuff in encyclicals that's directly relevant, if I can find it. That's why I'm hoping smart FReepers can link me some links or cite me some quotes.
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