Pope calls on all Catholics to revolt to stop climate change

[Spike]

This is going to be interesting!!!

How to solve world hunger. By Sam Kinison

You want to help world hunger?

Stop sending them food.

Don’t send them another bite, send them U-Hauls.

Send them a guy that says, “You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn’t BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A ****’ing DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW HERE!

Come here, you see this? This is sand.

You know what it’s gonna be 100 years from now? IT’S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A ****’ing DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don’t LIVE in them, ********!”

 

[Spike]

When the Pope cracks the whip...the bishops jump...



Archbishop of Canterbury trumps Pope in climate crusade

The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday launched a crusade against climate change

The Most Reverend Justin Welby issued a green declaration signed by British faith leaders, which asserted that climate change has hurt the poor of the world...

The Anglican statement called on people of all faiths to ‘recognise the urgency of the tasks involved in making the transition to the low carbon economy’ and demanded that national leaders make laws to ‘limit the global rise in average temperatures to a maximum of two degrees celsius’...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-statement-issue-saying-hurt-poor-world.html

 

[Spike]

I will believe it,,,......when I see it,,,

Pope Francis: 'Revolution' needed to combat climate change

(CNN)—Pope Francis warned Thursday that a broad sweep of human activities -- from a blind worship of technology to an addiction to fossil fuels -- has brought the planet to the "breaking point," calling for a "cultural revolution" before the Earth is polluted beyond repair.

"Doomsday predictions," the Pope said in a sharply worded manifesto, "can no longer be met with irony or disdain."

The Pope denounces big businesses, energy companies, short-sighted politicians, scurrilous scientists, laissez faire economists, callous Christians and myopic media professionals. Scarcely any area of society escapes his probing pen.

"We are not faced with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social," Francis writes, "but rather one complex crisis which is both social and environmental."

Broken into six chapters, "Laudato Si" begins by cataloguing a host of ills wracking the planet: dirty air, polluted water, industrial fumes, toxic waste, rising sea levels and extreme weather.

The problem is "aggravated," the Pope says, "by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels."


Read the full encyclical (PDF):

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/06/18/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf


http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/world/pope-francis-climate-technology-encyclical/

 

[Spike]

just like I predicted



US Catholics ready to follow Pope's 'marching orders' on climate change

Leaders of the Catholic Church in America took their “marching orders” from the Pope’s encyclical on Thursday, fanning out to Congress and the White House to push for action on climate change.

The high-level meetings offered a first glimpse of a vast and highly organised effort by the leadership of America’s nearly 80 million Catholics to turn the Pope’s moral call for action into reality.

“It is our marching orders for advocacy,” Joseph Kurtz, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of Louisville, said. “It really brings about a new urgency for us.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us...-marching-orders-on-climate-change/ar-AAbNjZ8

 

[Confluence]

For the first time in literally a thousand years Catholics are led by a man with collectivism in his heart and many of you think that is bad?

I might be wrong, but I had thought that the branch in the tree that separated Judaism from Christianity was punctuated by a man that was clearly about the collective group of people, equality for all and espoused the downtrodden. What about all that "the meek shall inherit the earth" stuff?

That about 48 different Pius ******* John Pauls and the like had tricked the collective into a ****** up gold-inspired union-tithing politicial structure is no reason to be critical of the guy returning to the message of the many over the few.

 

[ark steel]

For the first time in literally a thousand years Catholics are led by a man with collectivism in his heart and many of you think that is bad?

I might be wrong, but I had thought that the branch in the tree that separated Judaism from Christianity was punctuated by a man that was clearly about the collective group of people, equality for all and espoused the downtrodden. What about all that "the meek shall inherit the earth" stuff?

That about 48 different Pius ******* John Pauls and the like had tricked the collective into a ****** up gold-inspired union-tithing politicial structure is no reason to be critical of the guy returning to the message of the many over the few.

I feel like there is a vast difference between forcing people to comply rather than asking. This pope seems to be all in on getting the government involved in forcing compliance. I ain't all into that.

In addition, I don't believe in collective salvation.

 

[Spike]

For the first time in literally a thousand years Catholics are led by a man with collectivism in his heart and many of you think that is bad?

there's lots of gems in those 184 pages...right out of the socialist manifesto


Is the Pope giving up fossil fuels? Is he riding a horse these days?

you better read this


Laudato Si’ – Chapter Five: Lines of Approach and Action

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/06/18/laudato-si-chapter-five-lines-of-approach-and-action/


165. "We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels – especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas – needs to be progressively replaced without delay"


this leaves Canada out in the cold - back to whale oil lamps and blubber furnaces for you!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

The Pope will have a problem in 20 years or so when the earth isn't any warmer and then people won't believe other stuff he says either.

 

[Confluence]

I feel like there is a vast difference between forcing people to comply rather than asking. This pope seems to be all in on getting the government involved in forcing compliance. I ain't all into that.

In addition, I don't believe in collective salvation.

there's lots of gems in those 184 pages...right out of the socialist manifesto


Is the Pope giving up fossil fuels? Is he riding a horse these days?

you better read this


Laudato Si’ – Chapter Five: Lines of Approach and Action

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/06/18/laudato-si-chapter-five-lines-of-approach-and-action/


165. "We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels – especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas – needs to be progressively replaced without delay"


this leaves Canada out in the cold - back to whale oil lamps and blubber furnaces for you!

Gents, don't get me wrong: the Catholic church has been used for evil purposes for many, many years.

This new Pope is refreshing in that he is espousing a mantra more like the collectivist the Church is supposed to be modeled on -- that guy who fed the entire crowd on the side of that hill way back. That same guy used actions, stories and illustrations to show people a better way. He didn't seem to demand government action, though he did get excited at the temple when he had to confront regulators (tax collectors). The symbolism of Jesus washing the feet of regular people has never, ever been consistent with the cathedrals, crusades, art collections, gold bars, statues and chalices.

I would greatly prefer that this Pope put into practice that which he believes, first, to show his flock, and then attempted to describe his, and the Catholic Church's actions after the fact --- but that is not how modern business plans, marketing events or good socialist manifestos come about.....

 

[Rod Farva]

******' micks.......where's a Viking horde when ya need one?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Is the Pope giving up fossil fuels? Is he riding a horse these days?

He is rolling in a Ford Focus for his daily ride instead of a Mercedes limo.

 

[Spike]

Catholics, stop looking at your phones - it's made out of petrochemical plastics the Pope wants to abolish

 

[Spike]

******' micks.......where's a Viking horde when ya need one?

Speaking of immigration

you are now a sinner if you oppose illegal immigration


Pope Francis: nations that block illegal immigration should seek God’s forgiveness

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for respect for migrants and suggested that “people and institutions” who close doors to them should seek forgiveness from God.

The pope’s appeal, made at the end of his weekly general audience, came amid growing debate in Europe on how to deal with an immigrant crisis that has included clashes at the French-Italian borer between police and migrants.

France and Austria have stepped up border controls on migrants coming from Italy, turning back hundreds and leaving growing numbers camped out in train stations in Rome and Milan…….

……The pope said “these brothers and sisters of ours are seeking refuge far from their lands, they are seeking a home where they can live without fear.”

http://timesinitaly.com/news-in-eng...-reject-migrants-should-seek-gods-forgiveness

 

[Confluence]

Speaking of immigration

you are now a sinner if you oppose illegal immigration


Pope Francis: nations that block illegal immigration should seek God’s forgiveness

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for respect for migrants and suggested that “people and institutions” who close doors to them should seek forgiveness from God.

The pope’s appeal, made at the end of his weekly general audience, came amid growing debate in Europe on how to deal with an immigrant crisis that has included clashes at the French-Italian borer between police and migrants.

France and Austria have stepped up border controls on migrants coming from Italy, turning back hundreds and leaving growing numbers camped out in train stations in Rome and Milan…….

……The pope said “these brothers and sisters of ours are seeking refuge far from their lands, they are seeking a home where they can live without fear.”

http://timesinitaly.com/news-in-eng...-reject-migrants-should-seek-gods-forgiveness

Why would you not expect the Pope to oppose suffering?

Think about the opposite: would you have him come out in favor of the economic suffering and human misery of the refugee class?

 

[Spike]

He wants us all to suffer in poverty

it's the Jesuits way

 

[Spike]

He is rolling in a Ford Focus for his daily ride instead of a Mercedes limo.

Pope: "We were not meant to be inundated by cement, asphalt, glass, and metal”


Back to your straw huts, peasants!

 

[Confluence]

He wants us all to suffer in poverty

it's the Jesuits way

yes. to be the first among equals. No surprise here.

 

[Spike]

Did you know he blasted air-conditioning too?


“A simple example [of harmful habits of consumption] is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning,” Francis writes. “The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behavior, which at times appears self-destructive.”


Back to your mud huts! they were SO much more efficient

"Outsiders"? I bet the aliens are telling him to say this stuff

 

[Confluence]

Did you know he blasted air-conditioning too?


“A simple example [of harmful habits of consumption] is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning,” Francis writes. “The markets, which immediately benefit from sales, stimulate ever greater demand. An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behavior, which at times appears self-destructive.”


Back to your mud huts! they were SO much more efficient

"Outsiders"? I bet the aliens are telling him to say this stuff

Brother/Comrade Spike,

Shouldn't you look around the globe to find the others spouting this socialist manifesto?

What of the Chinese and the Russkies? What say those Commies?

 

[ark steel]

Gents, don't get me wrong: the Catholic church has been used for evil purposes for many, many years.

This new Pope is refreshing in that he is espousing a mantra more like the collectivist the Church is supposed to be modeled on -- that guy who fed the entire crowd on the side of that hill way back. That same guy used actions, stories and illustrations to show people a better way. He didn't seem to demand government action, though he did get excited at the temple when he had to confront regulators (tax collectors). The symbolism of Jesus washing the feet of regular people has never, ever been consistent with the cathedrals, crusades, art collections, gold bars, statues and chalices.

I would greatly prefer that this Pope put into practice that which he believes, first, to show his flock, and then attempted to describe his, and the Catholic Church's actions after the fact --- but that is not how modern business plans, marketing events or good socialist manifestos come about.....

IC, I misunderstood your point.

 

[Spike]

Brother/Comrade Spike,

Shouldn't you look around the globe to find the others spouting this socialist manifesto?

What of the Chinese and the Russkies? What say those Commies?

We know where they stand - but now we have an army of 1.2 billion Catholic crusaders about to carry out this attack against our way of life as ordained by their Pope.

Everyone should be forewarned of this coming apocalypse.

Wolverines!

 

[Spike]

the shakedown begins


Senators Rally Conservative Support for $2 Trillion Carbon Fee Bill

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have proposed a bill that would establish an economy-wide tax on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.

“My bill sets the fee for a ton of carbon at $45 in 2016, the central range of the social cost of carbon as estimated by OMB, and would increase it each year at a real 2 percent. When emissions fall 80 percent below 2005 levels, the annual adjustment would fall to inflation,” Whitehouse said at the American Enterprise Institute when presenting the American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/senators-rally-conservative-support-for-2-trillion-carbon-fee-bill/

 

[Spike]

I'd prefer that the South American Socialist Pope question why so many people want to leave their shithole countries in Mexico and Central America and come to the U.S. illegally.

That question is not allowed

obey


No Catholic is free to dissent from the teaching of 'Laudato Si’

What this means is that while the Church does allow for divergent viewpoints on some issues, we are simply not free to dissent from the teaching of this encyclical, any more than we are free to dissent from Catholic teaching about other moral issues. Our duty as Catholics is to learn about what the Holy Father has said and share it with others.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/com...e-to-dissent-from-the-teaching-of-laudato-si/

 

[Spike]

I wish someone would argue with me - where's Vis?