Posted on 04/19/2020 6:06:32 PM PDT by ebb tide
April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family wishes to communicate that Catholics and all reasonable men and women must beware the infiltration of a pagan, earth-centered New-Age sentiment subtly making its way into certain levels of our culture.
The present-day proponents of the primitive belief in an “Earth Goddess” have advanced their once simply ecological obsession to a personalization of their ‘deity’ and various agents have innocently and not so innocently provided echo of this archaic religion.
The idea that “Gaia”, Pachamama, the Earth, is “angry” and punishing humanity for the felling of trees and pollution of various kinds is a backward step into the paganism which once held mankind in slavery.
Man, submitted to God, is the pinnacle of creation. The earth was created as a stage on which men were to be tested. It is not an end in itself. To speak of it as such is childish anthropomorphism. To impute to it human characteristics such as the earth “feels”, or the earth “heals” leads to the belief that the inanimate earth and the beauty of nature blooming upon it has a spirit of its own. This is tantamount to a retreat into the pagan worship of things.
“That men should die so that earth could be reborn”, which is the implicit message in an article, recently and briefly appearing on the Vatican website, is akin to celebrating human sacrifice to placate pagan gods angered by man's abuse or inattention, in this case the goddess Gaia.
It is immensely sad that Pope Francis should have encouraged this worldview by speaking of the “earth having a fit” or being angry, while simultaneously denying that God’s Justice includes the punishment of Hell so clearly forewarned by Our Lord.
The Church founded by the Risen Christ, Jesus, believes as always in the Last Judgement and in the Mercy of God, who does most certainly send calamities as warnings to His children on earth.
Ping
So it’s not revenge for tossing the Pope’s idol into the Tiber?
The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family — Wasn’t this the group that Pope Francis gutted and filled with his own people? Anyways, I’m glad they’re speaking out against Gaia worship in the Church.
It is the work of man and it is not a public health issue!!
It’s not revenge for tossing the Pope into the Tiber ....
There are a number of institutions that share the same name and did share the same mission. Some have been gutted. The two most important are in Rome, which was gutted shamelessly not too long ago, and Washington D.C., which for the moment is still in the hands of the angels.
U.S. law is of some use in protecting the Church from itself.
The new statutes said the defense of life must include “the care of the dignity of the human person at different stages of life,” as well as “the promotion of a quality of human life that integrates its material and spiritual value with a view to an authentic ‘human ecology’ that helps recover the original balance of creation between the human person and the entire universe.”
Definition of human ecology
2: the ecology of human communities and populations especially as concerned with preservation of environmental quality (as of air or water) through proper application of conservation and civil engineering practices
Live by Gaia, die by Gaia.
Francis is an idiot.
I’d like to go confess that…but I CAN’T.
Regards,
60 MILLION DEAD BABIES in this country only brought on GOD’S WRATH!!
I never want to hear another word about “Roman Catholic” bashing.
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