Posted on 04/25/2020 7:10:28 PM PDT by ebb tide
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day yesterday, Pope Francis issued a weird sort of papal confession to Pachamama during one of his increasingly bizarre Wednesday Audiences: "We have sinned against the earth,” confessed His Holiness, prompting Christians around the world to lament: Wouldn’t it be great if Francis cared this much about aborted babies?
Understandably, several news agencies rendered this as a kind of blasphemous play on the words of the Our Father: “Pope says nature will not forgive our trespasses.”
Speaking from his library to empty churches all over the world, Francis warned that harming the earth puts us all at risk: "There is a Spanish saying that is very clear about this. It goes: 'God always forgives; we humans sometimes forgive, and sometimes not; the earth never forgives.' The earth does not forgive: if we have despoiled the earth, its response will be very ugly."
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I never knew a little feeble man calling himself pope could do so much damage to humanity and actually shake my faith.
Michael Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
http://principia-scientific.org/crichton-environmentalism-religion/
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