Posted on 11/28/2014 8:34:45 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
Oh, and the name-brand Protestant denominations (the largest) as well. Well, actually, it’s the view of most organizations in general.
Of course, many “sheeple” fall for the canard that poverty CAUSES violence and theft.
Probably the majority of sheeple, however, will admit, at least in private, that the idea is nonsense, since, well, duh, there are many people who are dirt poor and they don’t steal or commit acts of violence. And many people who do steal and commit acts of violence are not poor.
Sadly, many leaders won’t admit these simple truths.
They’d have to acknowledge the fallen state of man.
They think that admission is not good for marketing and fundraising.
It actually convicts the listener of their own sin and need for Christ’s atoning sacrifice.
I hear that often.
“It actually convicts the listener of their own sin and need for Christ’s atoning sacrifice.”
....As well as BELIEVING which LEADS to the above.
That’ll work. Osama was just a poor man scratching for his two meals a day.
“grave persecutions”“terrorist violence”
“It is licit, while always respecting international law, to stop an unjust aggressor,”
“What is required is a concerted commitment on the part of all … [to] enable resources to be directed, not to weaponry, but to the other noble battles worthy of man: the fight against hunger and sickness.”…
“It is essential that all citizens – Muslim, Jewish and Christian – both in the provision and practice of the law, enjoy the same rights and respect the same duties,”
This guy is a flippin’ moron.
“Interfaith dialogue” with a false, diabolical religion. Oh what Vatican II hath wrought. Until a pope comes along to fix the disaster that is Vatican II, we will continue to see these pathetic attempts to dialogue with the Devil.
If nothing else, the Pope’s methodology would serve to help carry the message of Christianity. Doomed to fail on large scale but may possibly reach a few and save some souls. What else would one have him do - call for the extermination of some of God’s children (wayward for sure, but still God’s kids)?
The phrase “God’s children” gets thrown around a lot. Actually, only the baptized are “God’s children.” I.e., only the baptized have the theological virtue of charity. I.e., only they participate in the form of God.
No, the Pope doesn’t need to call for the extermination of anybody. What he COULD do is stop lying and TELL THE TRUTH about Islam and tell the truth about what motivates jihadists.
I’m starting to think Pope Francis is Catholic the way Barack Obama is American.
The unholy alliance between leftists and Islamists would never tolerate such honesty.
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"...The history of Islam and the modern Left is one of cooperation when there is some obstacle to their divergent concepts of “social justice” and the perfect society. These are always marriages of convenience, enduring no longer than the enemy that drives them into each other’s arms. But, reliably, it is they — the Islamists and the leftists — who come together when there is a third party in the mix. Rarely will one collude with a common enemy against the other. Today, the common enemy of Islamists and leftists is individual liberty, especially the social, economic, and political freedom guaranteed by the American Constitution, as conceived by the Framers. Conceived, that is, by men who saw government as a necessary evil to be rigorously limited lest it devour true freedom — not as an essential good to be empowered for the very purpose of enforcing servitude..."
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261366/jean-jacques-jihad-andrew-c-mccarthy
Pray for the CONVERSION of ALL to CHRIST, including Muslims.
Maybe the Pope is suggesting food laced with something.
This article is relevant. The Pope is part of the fantasy-driven Western Left.
Both tell the lies that the elite want told. Each occupies a high office for which he is unqualified, and is using to dismantle the society he “heads.”
This article points to the increasing lack of food for the increasing world population as a probably cause of war. It is interesting that Jihadists come from desert countries that are already overpopulated relative to agricultural land and water. Only oil which is now losing value keeps some of them relatively secure.
http://fortune.com/2014/12/21/why-the-next-world-war-will-be-fought-over-food/
Here is one of the comments pointing out one method for attacking the problem. Other comments point out the dangers of excessive births in places lacking resources. It is unfortunate that this compassionate man who has never been married does not support the right of his billion followers to plan their own families.
“50% of the world is obese, whilst 50% is hungry.
Huge tracts of land are used to grow sugar: how does that “feed” the world?
Even larger areas are used to grow cereals/soya/corn simply to feed livestock, often kept in the most horrendous corralled conditions causing pollution at the same time.
Growing most of these crops uses ridiculous quantities of fresh water: do we need to really remind ourselves how scarce that is becoming? It’s arguable whether some of the war is being fought at the moment aren’t because of increased tension in arid regions where water is the number one resource that they are majorly deprived of.
Cutting out or cutting down meat will lead to the following immediate bonuses.
1. Less soil loss. In case you hadn’t noticed it’s disappearing rapidly, and when gone there will be no way of producing any food. 2015 is the International Year of Soil.
2. Much less freshwater needed to grow crops easing tension for that resource.
3. Much less in the way of hydrocarbons needed by agriculture, both to field machinery to grow crops and also produce chemicals/fertilisers.
4. Huge tracts of land can then grow grass and to be grazed: there we are, was still producing meat for the carnivore, but they’re going to eat less and it will be better quality.
5. Further huge tracts of land can then be re-afforested, massively enhancing the carbon budget for the world and returning weather cycles to something nearer to normality.
I appreciate that this all seems a little utopian to some people. However, what is wrong with the proposal?
Naturally, the big resistance will be the airheads in government obsessed with their own power base, and the short-term election cycle that stops making the essential and radical decisions needed for us to have a planet worth living on in 30 years time, and one which will feed as all, equitably. The other major resistance point is of course the corporate world which has stitched up most of the political world. Who is going to do something about that? Or do we have to leave it so late that we end up having a war?”
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