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A Catholic Perspective on Climate Change
americanthinker.com ^ | 5/17/2015 | Bruce Colbert

Posted on 05/17/2015 7:11:48 AM PDT by rktman

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said, “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years since the Industrial Revolution.” For the U.N., it does not matter that the report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change shows that human activity is not causing climate change. Climate change is actually about changing capitalism.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: alexnewman; arneduncan; commoncore; conservation; gangreen; globalwarminghoax; popefrancis; romancatholicism; unesco
So, in the confessional, will you confess that you're a denier? What's your penance? Now, about those dung fires and grass huts.
1 posted on 05/17/2015 7:11:48 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

The barf alert is implicit in the first sentence.


2 posted on 05/17/2015 7:12:37 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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To: 9thLife

Hey, Christiana Figueres, drop dead. You just want to steal the resources that Americans worked hard for and died for to give them to worthless countries that cant get their act together.


3 posted on 05/17/2015 7:17:26 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: rktman
Climate change is actually about changing capitalism.

Committing to memory.

4 posted on 05/17/2015 7:23:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rktman

There is no doubt in my mind that this woman lives well, flies constantly on jets, eats food from the other side of the earth. She enjoys every single blessing of capitalism.
She is a tool of the NWO and sees destroying America as part of her mission to remake the world economic order.


5 posted on 05/17/2015 7:25:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: rktman

Please, Lord, do not allow the leaders of Your Church to go on record as opposing economic development.


6 posted on 05/17/2015 7:25:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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The UN needs to be evicted from New York. This would be a powerful move as it would make the UN “foreign” in more peoples minds. The edicts would be from somewhere in Europe or Asia and could be ignored more easily. They gain legitimacy just because of their physical location.

Nothing would help us more than to evict them from America.


7 posted on 05/17/2015 7:28:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: rktman

The Church needs to deal wit the spiritual realm and “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”...


8 posted on 05/17/2015 7:35:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (More blacks are aborted every week than have been lynched in the entire history of the country-Rush)
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To: 9thLife

You might want to consider actually reading the article.


9 posted on 05/17/2015 7:43:45 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Agreed. The article is proof positive that The USA is the answer.


10 posted on 05/17/2015 7:45:29 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Shady

Really? How did something like this ever get published?


11 posted on 05/17/2015 7:46:57 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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To: rktman

To rephrase a scripture: What good does it do you if you cool the whole world and lose your soul?


12 posted on 05/17/2015 8:29:02 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: rktman
There is not, and will not be, any Catholic moral doctrine on "climate change" --- nor can there be, since "climate change" is a geophysical topic, not a moral one.

The moral question would arise only for acts of negligence or malice, harmful to your neighbors or to future generations, e.g. negligently or maliciously harming the water supply. But the technical specifications of "Did this happen" or "How did this happen" are matters of natural science, not moral law.

13 posted on 05/17/2015 8:34:58 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially as always.)
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If climate change is man caused:
1. Why won’t the left debate it?
2. Why does the data have to be faked?
3. Why do only capitalists create green house gases?
4. Why are only Americans to blame?
5. How is a scientific ‘consensus’ suddenly infallible?
6. What caused ice ages and why are those kind of climate fluctuations extinct?
7. How come every time I ask these questions I get bombarded with insults and hate?


14 posted on 05/17/2015 8:50:06 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: rktman

Why can’t FReepers READ THE ARTICLE before commenting?

The author’s point is that the Vatican has the wrong focus.

My point is that the Vatican needs to recognize that in buying into manmade global warming, they are PROMOTING POPULATION CONTROL and its key mechanisms, ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION.

The Vatican needs a real world assessment of the power of FREEDOM, ENERGY PRODUCTION, & CAPITALISM, in combating poverty throughout the world.

Fight the oppressive dictators and quit pretending capitalism and energy production are the problem.


15 posted on 05/17/2015 9:44:46 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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