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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Belle on June 16, 2015, 09:51:31 AM
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The Pope is asking for this to tackle "the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions."
The draft was leaked early by L'Expresso magazine.
Pope Francis "...will align himself with the environmental movement and its objectives. While accepting that there may be some natural causes of global warming, the pope will also state that climate change is mostly a man-made problem."
"Humanity is called to take note of the need for changes in lifestyle and changes in methods of production and consumption to combat this warming, or at least the human causes that produce and accentuate it,†he wrote in the draft. “Numerous scientific studies indicate that the greater part of the global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases … given off above all because of human activity.â€
"The pope will also single out those obstructing solutions. In an apparent reference to climate-change deniers, the draft states: “The attitudes that stand in the way of a solution, even among believers, range from negation of the problem, to indifference, to convenient resignation or blind faith in technical solutions.â€
Oh, oh, I'm an affirmed denier. I believe global warming is caused by Mother Nature. There, I said it.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/pope-francis-destruction-ecosystem-leaked-encyclical
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This one jumped right out at me. This pope is not a spiritual authority at all. He is a south American socialist with a political agenda. This guy is the biggest mistake the catholic church has ever made.
Atheists and socialists love this pope...not enough to convert, but enough to brow beat Christians with. Its only a matter of time before this pope welcomes gays into the church in clear violation of scripture. Pope Francis may not be the false prophet, but he is laying the groundwork for clear apostasy.
Forgive me if you are Catholic...but this man needs to stop replacing God with politics.
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I'm not a Catholic either; nor am I an Alexander Hislop or Jack T. Chick style Catholic basher.
Pope Francis needs to learn from history, Part 1. The League of Nations and the UN were and are abject and monstrous failures. Not because they were/are too weak or too small, but because the price of getting something close to all nations' participation is giving up the moral standards by which a Stalin or a Hitler or a Mao or a Castro ... or a Saddam or the Iranian Mullah-cracy or Sudan or ... can be condemned. Accepting monsters as members entail accepting their monstrosity ... and even letting monsters sit in judgment of decent nations.
Pope Francis needs to learn from history, Part 2. Giving credit where credit is due, the Church of Rome (as distinct from the Greek Church of the Byzantine Empire) was the unifying social force that rose above the rubble of the Roman Empire, preserved much of Greek and Roman thought and civilization, mitigated the violence and chaos of the Middle Ages, and pointed to a path back to civilization. The Renaissance and "Enlightenment" did not arise ex nihilo.
That said, the socio-political power that the Catholic (Roman) Church brought arrogance, corruption, and decadence. Even a Catholic source such as the Catholic Encyclopedia doesn't try to mitigate events such as the comedy of horror often called the "Corpse Synod"; nor does it pretend that Pope Leo X was a great spiritual leader. Those are but two examples.
The lesson Pope Francis needs to learn from history, including that of his own church, is that world government cannot but devolve into a horror, because the humans it would govern do the governing. The sinful human beings who would be governed would be governed by sinful human beings.
In terms of the US Constitution, "Separation of Powers" was incorporated so that, in the extreme, there would be chances for decent people in one branch to bring a halt to corrupt persons in another branch. Efficiency was intentionally sacrificed to put in place checks against human sin.
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This one jumped right out at me. This pope is not a spiritual authority at all. He is a south American socialist with a political agenda. This guy is the biggest mistake the catholic church has ever made.
Atheists and socialists love this pope...not enough to convert, but enough to brow beat Christians with. Its only a matter of time before this pope welcomes gays into the church in clear violation of scripture. Pope Francis may not be the false prophet, but he is laying the groundwork for clear apostasy.
Forgive me if you are Catholic...but this man needs to stop replacing God with politics.
I was baptized in the Catholic church and also confirmed into the Episcopal church. I have also attended a non-denominational church. I now attend neither because of the changes that have transpired over the years; from women priests to gay priests to all the sexual abuse, financial corruption and immorality. Enough is enough! I for one will NOT be brow beaten into changing my beliefs for the sake of political correctness. God and I are just fine without the "church" structure and I sure as heck don't need the Pope to rearrange my relationship with the Almighty.
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Oh, hell no.