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Pope Francis: Environmental Destruction A Sin, Will Write Encyclical On Climate Change
Inquisitr ^ | 12/30/2014

Posted on 12/30/2014 5:11:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/30/2014 5:11:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Pope is going to bed with some mighty evil people.


2 posted on 12/30/2014 5:13:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
It means respecting each of God’s creatures and respecting the environment in which we live.”

This is not exactly genuflecting to Al Gore.

3 posted on 12/30/2014 5:16:09 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of *them*.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This will cause a massive evacuation of the church, which is supposed to look after the spiritual wellbeing, not getting into political drama.


4 posted on 12/30/2014 5:17:02 PM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dang, I wish somebody had kept him from watching that stupid Noah movie!

Also, if he’s so convinced that possibly one degree of warming is so concerning, I’d like to ask him why he thinks God has allowed so much warming AND cooling since the creation?


5 posted on 12/30/2014 5:21:54 PM PST by mtrott
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To: SeekAndFind

“Do you agree with Pope Francis that harming the environment is a “sin?””

the problem is the pope is attempting to define sin, rather than God defining it.

The definition from God comes from Genesis:

“26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”


6 posted on 12/30/2014 5:22:06 PM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Because this pope is a mighty evil person. We were told we’d know them by their fruits afterall.


7 posted on 12/30/2014 5:22:12 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: Jim Robinson

this pope guy is screwing up big time but in the same way devote libs worship their anointed ones devote catholics will stick by him no matter what foolishness come out of his mouth


8 posted on 12/30/2014 5:26:30 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: SeekAndFind

I have no problem believing in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It’s always my fellow man that gives me problems.


9 posted on 12/30/2014 5:31:25 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The Obama visit.


10 posted on 12/30/2014 5:32:44 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s hard to know what is wishful thinking and what is factual reporting... on the part of the news agency. Francis has gotten this kind of news treatment before and some of it was just vapor.

Because the Pontiff is famous for, well, pontificating, folks wants to portray him as pontificating in their direction.

I CAN say I hope he doesn’t take modern AGW theories as gospel. That would get a furious thing going.


11 posted on 12/30/2014 5:33:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has distinguished himself from previous popes in his progressive views on such topics as evolution

Francis' "progressive views on evolution" are identical to those of previous popes going back at least to Pius XII and possibly Pius X.

12 posted on 12/30/2014 5:34:28 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Jim Robinson

So you can’t mention protecting the environment of an unborn baby, just the environment of a monkey?

smh


14 posted on 12/30/2014 5:37:11 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, we are supposed to be good stewards. Part of good stewardship involves not being stupid though, so I think the fallen-angels are in the details of exactly what is meant by “protecting the environment”.


15 posted on 12/30/2014 5:37:49 PM PST by BlackAdderess
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Religion Moderator
I certainly would not count you as a maven of anything Christian. Scat!

Discussions of creation and evolution and of Biblical integrity are not the sole purview of chrstianity, since the Bible pre-existed chrstianity.

This is not your forum. You have no business telling me which threads and I may and may not post on. I suggest you simply ignore me if every word I type so disagrees with you.

16 posted on 12/30/2014 5:39:03 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: SeekAndFind
AGW is a sin but we need to take our focus off abortion and homosexuality?

Dude - I want my church back!

18 posted on 12/30/2014 5:40:11 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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If AGW were possible it might be a sin, but that’s like saying riding a unicorn is a sin. Show me that there is such a thing first.

As for “focus on abortion and homosexuality” even that could be a misleading factor — when substituted for core devotion to the Lord. You can focus like laser on such things and STILL miss heaven.


19 posted on 12/30/2014 5:42:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure this is just a mistake, with translation corrections to follow. /sarc/


20 posted on 12/30/2014 5:44:19 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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