Posted on 09/02/2016 8:44:44 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Pope Francis is imploring Catholics to confess their sins against the environment, calling the degradation of the climate a “sin against God.”
In his message marking the World day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on Thursday, the pontiff said climate change is caused in part by human activity, leads to extreme weather and disproportionately affects the least advantaged around the world.
He added that “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.
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To allow the Earth to continue on in God's plan as it should is what then?
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:28
This Pope’s really going round the bend.
That rings a bit hollow from someone whose tagline advocates nuking Saudi Arabia.
Is the Pope is a babbling moron who actually believes in the pseudo-science of “Climate Change”? Or is the Pope just another leftist who believes in using a disproven theory to bludgeon the world’s economy to “redistribute the wealth”? Or is he a bit of both? Only God knows, but one would assume that the Pope spewing this type of nonsense must cause many Catholics to question their faith.
“You feel there is no particular moral issue with dumping a few tons of battery acid and sewage into the nearest river?”
Do you really think that’s what he’s talking about? Does the average Catholic go around doing such things? If not, why would he be exhorting them to confess?
You feel there is no particular moral issue with dumping a few tons of battery acid and sewage into the nearest river?
I don't like arguing with people here, but I have to say, I really don't think mia meant that at all. I think our fellow FReeper was just indicating that if everything is a sin, including using carbon-based fuel, then nothing is a sin. So the Pope is cheapening the term.
Also, with all due respect, I think whatever point you meant to make is at odds with your tagline.
Nuclear radioactive contamination lasts for a very long time and spreads wherever the wind blows. On the other hand, I think the U.S. has done a good job of cleaning up polluted rivers. But there's nothing you can do, as far as I know, to clean up radioactivity. I may be wrong on that, and if so, I apologize.
Would it be wrong if there were no God and the universe had just willed itself into existence?
Saved by Grace is definitely in Catholic teaching.
But you really have to dig for it. It is buried beneath
two millennia of ceremony and process and misguided tradition.
My parents believed that you might not be saved if you didn’t make Mass on all of the First Fridays. That is not actually Church teaching, but they sure didn’t work very hard to disabuse anyone of the notion.
"Without God, anything is permitted" -- Dostoyevsky.
Please, take a little time to look at what the Church actually teaches about salvation.
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/why-does-the-church-teach-that-works-can-obtain-salvation
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/we-can-work-it-out
Nah, nuking Saudi Arabia would be good for the environment and the planet. Gaia herself would thank us.
Back in 1942, MGM filmed a short TRAVELTALKS on Glacier National Park and Waterton park.
It was mentioned that the glaciers had been receding since the last Ice Age and “IF there is NO CLIMATIC CHANGE, they will be gone in a thousand years.”
So, calling for Climatic Change to save the Glaciers is now a SIN?
Please Pope Francis, if you excommunicate Mother Nature, perhaps she will stop changing the planet’s climate. Of course, if you looked that the millions and billions of years that the climate has changed, apparently because of God’s own plan, perhaps you are in error and telling God that his plan is wrong.
A pack of lies purporting to state that humans can wreak long term harm on the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels (or so called fossil fuels)... now THAT is a sin. SCIENCE is not there. It would not be able to be — we know far too little about the earth and sun. PSEUDO SCIENCE is.
I thought that this Pope was cool with crimes against nature.
Who said what the ideal temperature average is for this ball of mud, anyhow? If someone can find it in the bible, I’d sure like to know where.
badoom TISH!
Seems to put the glory on us (as Part Of That Church, If We Belong To It).
This is why Luther complained, and eventually walked out. He saw that it did not work that way.
It is not the first time the church has stood in opposition to actual science, nor will it be the last.
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