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To: Arthur McGowan
Since Global Warming is a hoax, and all the “moral” recommendations made by the Pope are predicated on the Hoax, none of those recommendations is relevant. The encyclical contains religious language, but it teaches nothing, because its first premise is a Hoax.

Again, no matter how assert it, it is your judgment that Global Warming is a hoax, and that the encyclical contains religious language but it teaches nothing, versus the judgement of your vicar of Christ.

And no matter how much you protest it, you are acting contrary to Catholic teaching that i have supplied, despite your opinion of it, which broadly requires submission to public papal teaching, without making distinction, except for a higher level of assent for infallible teaching, and at the least forbids public dissent.

Another RC can follow your example and judge some other papal teaching as not being valid, as many do with aspects of V2. Do you hold hold all of that as requiring submission? When RCs can and must pick and choose btwn what in an encyclical of the like they need to submit to, then it is contrary to their invocation of papal leadership as being necessary to prevent believers choosing what to believe, and for unity.

401 posted on 06/20/2015 7:16:20 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

The Pope does not have the power to add entire categories of subject matter to the teaching of the Church.

If the Pope teaches something about the Trinity, Jesus Christ, the Sacraments, the Commandments, etc., then I am bound to listen to him.

The temperature of the Earth is not now, AND NEVER WILL BE, a subject about which the Church will have any teaching. No Pope will EVER have the authority to tell Catholics anything about the temperature of the Earth—what the temperature is, whether it is going up or down, whether it is “too high” or “too low.”

It is obvious that you are simply ignoring what I say, so goodbye. I am satisfied that I have prevented you from deceiving anyone with any intelligence.


406 posted on 06/20/2015 8:25:37 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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