Posted on 05/02/2015 4:04:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Catholics are going to have to save the planet by themselves.
have there been “peaceful demonstrations” for “earth’s rights” yet?
imagine “the planet” wearing a black shirt....bearing the words no justice no peas!!
PFL
Earth rights mean nothing other than empowering governments with totalitarian powers to violate human rights.
Anyone who believes something else is a child.
Bingo. I was listening to ‘sermon’ last night by Jim Jones. He spouted the same ‘sustainable’ crap. Straight from the Kremlin.
Such a move is nonsense on its face. How does one ever discern a demand of the earth? If we even wanted to recognize such a thing?
God wants mankind to honor God with what they have. That would mean fighting gratuitous pollution. It would mean addressing every concern of the earth that good science could illuminate that would hurt the ability of humanity to thrive (this is what global warming pretended to be, but the “science” was a total crock). We might want to preserve perishing rare animals and plants in zoos and parks for future generations’ admiration of God’s work.
But we can’t worship every nook and cranny of the earth, especially when that inexorably leads to the notion that mankind doesn’t even belong.
The question is, sustaining just what.
The ‘top leaders’.
Which so conveniently speak up for “CERTAIN” things about the earth.
Yep. All for THEM......little for US.
Like Al Gore and the carbon footprint he has that surpasses thousands of peons’ carbon footprints.
The premise that nature possesses intrinsic value-that nature is valuable in and of itself, apart from all contribution to human life and well-being is an anti-man premise because it logically implies hatred for man and his achievements.But the nature of man as a rational being is God-given.It is the application of his reason in the form of science, technology, and an industrial civilization that enables him to act on nature on the enormous scale on which he now does. Thus, it is his possession and use of reason-manifested in his technology and industry-for which he is hated.
These are clearly the very end times.
And the worst thing is not just the “little for us” but the “nothing for God.” It arrogates to set the whims of men in God’s seat... exactly what I thought the religion-haters were aghast at seeing.
Gone down a veritable rabbit hole of philosophy.
The Pope has no authority to do this, and nobody in the Church has any obligation to accept it.
This Pope is a leftist, a fool and probably only got to be pope through chicanery and politicking. (Also, I’ll never be convinced that he wasn’t involved in forcing BXVI to resign.)
Whatever he says that conflicts with or does not support the established doctrine of the Church can be dismissed. It’s just his opinion.
He’s very autocratic and has intimidated and silenced many people, in addition to the opposition he has just (borderline illegally) removed and sent to Siberia. So people are scared of him.
But nobody has to accept anything he says unless it is in harmony with Catholic doctrine...and this would not be. Man is the gardener of the garden, and while creation may be his responsibility, it has no rights of its own. Especially as defined by an elderly Argentinian who hasn’t had a real job in his life where he supported himself, and who lives in a clerical residence in Rome, tended by nuns.
Exactly.
4:3 he makes an ex cathedra proclamation.
I’m old enough to remember when the only politics the Pope would engage in is to condemn slavery, political oppression, and person-on-person violence.
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