Peter Foster: Vatican becomes an arm of godless United Nations with climate statement

There was no discussion at this week’s Vatican “conference” en route to Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change. What’s to discuss? Anybody who disagrees is an apostate, destined for damnation. The important point is to stop them bringing climate hell to earth.

The event — along with an accompanying statement — confirmed that the Vatican has become an arm of the godless United Nations, and an unabashed shill for its murky Sustainable Development Goals.

The encyclical is due to land in September to rally climate True Believers ahead of the U.N.’s giant policy shindig in Paris.

I am Catholic and I'd hate to see the current or future collection of bishops and cardinals in charge of a one world religion. They are bureaucrats who can't handle what they have responsibility for now. No one should have such power. It isn't going to happen.

Look to the Secularists, Progressives, Communists, Nazis, Pagans, and Mohammedans to form up a loony bin one world religion with a logo of a rainbow coming out of Obama’s arse.

I’m afraid the Pope has fallen into an insidious intellectual trap.

The philosophy of socialism is essentially a parody of Christianity, but with man at the center of the universe, not God. Going very far back, socialists and proto-socialists have tried to rationalize The Bible to serve their ends, rewriting it without God, but just man. And though they despise Christians, they crave to subvert their faith and turn it to the ends of socialism.

So it is easy for Christians to become confused, thinking that they have a natural “alliance” with socialists, because the goals of Christians seem similar to the ends of socialists.

But it is a deal with the devil, which is a very good analogy.

If you look at various socialist political parties around the world, including the US Democrats, a striking feature is that they do not just reject morality, good and evil, as ideas; but they go out of their way to *embrace* evil.

If you consider the traditional seven deadly sins, in some form or another they are almost the foundation of the Democrat party platform.

In South America, the Catholic church tried very hard to help the poor, for the purpose of helping the poor. The socialists always claim that they want to help the poor as well, yet their purpose is so that the poor will give them political power.

Now, socialists claim to love the Earth, with the idea that if socialists are given money and power, all the problems of the world will be automatically solved, without the socialists having to do anything. The Christians also love the Earth, but because they want to improve it, and make it better, and a better place to live.

These are not the same ends. And beware a deal with the devil, even if it seems like your ends are the same.

"Anybody who disagrees is an apostate, destined for damnation."

Anyone who thinks that,Catholic or not, is a fool cubed.

The encyclical in question will not be published for at least a month yet (last winter they were saying March, yesterday they were saying June, but this article says September? Interesting...) Shrewd guesses aside, why is everybody so sure they know what's in a document that nobody has seen?

Over the next 6 weeks or so, you can expect a multiplication of this kind of drum-beating, tendentious "pre-coverage coverage".

No matter what the Pope says, it'll rarely break through all the elaborately constructed "framing."

My #1 prediction: Pope Francis makes a big case for natural sex/gender and natural marriage, natural procreation and the natural family as part of a wider respect for God's natural creation.

My #2 prediction: Nobody in the EneMedia will mention much of Pope Francis' defense of natural sex/gender. Nor will they make the salient point that the Pope has no authority to make magisterial statements about "climate change." Geophysical science is outside of his competence.

My #3 prediction: you won't be able to separate "what he said" from "what they said he said" unless you read the whole thing in Spanish or Italian (or whatever language he's writing it in) and do your own translation.

Frankly, by the time it gets into English, I won't trust the page numbers unless I count them myself.

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