Posted on 03/27/2023 2:52:47 PM PDT by ebb tide
On Sunday, March 26, St. Peter’s Basilica went dark for Earth Hour. Somewhere, Pachamama is smiling.
Earth Hour began in 2007 in Australia when more than 2.2 million souls denied themselves electricity for a whopping 1/24th of the day to express their shared concern for “climate change.” Immediately thereafter, they returned to their normal (sinful?) energy consumption rates. The Vatican has participated in this quasi-pagan act of mortification every year since at least 2009.
The godless United Nations — which Paul VI once called mankind’s “last hope for peace” — has been one of Earth Hour’s biggest cheerleaders. Its inquisitors have successfully coerced nearly every global landmark into supporting it. The Eiffel Tower, Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral, and even Rio De Janero’s Christ the Redeemer Statue have all dimmed their lights as a sign of their willingness to offer incense to the green agenda in recent years.
Last month, Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a stinging rebuke of the institution that Earth Hour is a sacrament in: “the church of environmentalism.” His remarks (which can be watched here) so impressed former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, that His Excellency published a 2,400-word essay endorsing them. Paraphrasing, Viganò writes the following:
Carlson recalls that the American Constitution prohibits any state religion, but for some time the governing Democratic Party has imposed on the American people the globalist cult, with its green agenda, its woke dogmas, its condemnations and cancel culture, its priests of the World Health Organization, and its prophets of the World Economic Forum.
A religion in all respects, all-encompassing not only for the life of the individuals who practice it, but also in the life of the nation that publicly confesses it, adapts laws and sentences to it, and inspires education and every governmental action around it.
The symbolism of the Vatican’s participation in Earth Hour cannot be overstated, especially as Rome’s policies on environmental matters increasingly overlap with the eco-fascist ones advanced by the Great Reset. The “apostasy of the Catholic hierarchy,” Viganò notes in his essay, has devolved to the point where Roman clergy are now worshipping “mother Earth” alongside the “high priests” and “prelates” of the World Economic Forum.
Instead of a Holy Hour of Reparation for crimes against sodomy, other sins of the flesh, and the international COVID deception, the Vatican has chosen here to engage in a blasphemous act of ecological penance drawn straight from the Satanic catechism of the un-holy trinity of Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and Bill Gates.
At a time when the world is falling headlong into spiritual darkness, the Church has chosen to extinguish its own light, literally, by denying its scattered sheep a chance to gaze upon its glorious façade, adorned with statues of Our Lord and His beloved apostles, but also, figuratively, by substituting, since Vatican II, Christ’s mandate to go forth and teach all nations the Catholic faith with an ecumenical anti-religion rooted in the Masonic concept of the brotherhood of man.
The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. Its members, as Matthew 5:14 states, are “the light of the world.” The Vatican’s Earth Hour blackout — a sort of self-imposed cancelation that Satan, the prince of darkness, surely delighted in — reveals that it despises what Matthew’s Gospel goes on to say: “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
It is difficult to think of a more fitting verse to describe the situation at hand. Where the Gospel says, “let your light shine before men,” the post-conciliar church responds, “only if doesn’t harm the environment.”
Ping
The Vatican going dark is so appropriate. Their Prince won’t have any problem getting around.
I wouldn’t read too much into that.
God gave man dominion over the earth. Man can and should care for the environment.
How to do that and what constitutes caring for the earth is up for debate.
Has the Vatican ever gone dark on Happy Abortion Celebration Day?
I loathe this Pope more than Billy Jeff loathed the military.
MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen said this week that humanity should do “nothing” about global warming and should focus instead on “resilience.”
In a March 21 interview with Andrew Bolt of Sky News Australia, Lindzen — an atmospheric physicist and emeritus professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — declared that climate alarmism “is exploiting people’s ignorance to promote fear and use it as a lever.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said last week, for instance, that “warp speed climate action” is urgently needed to stave off the coming climate Armageddon. Every country “must massively fast-track climate efforts,” Guterres declared, because the “climate time-bomb is ticking.”
“We need climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once,” Guterres urged.
According to Lindzen, such alarmism is not shared by the bulk of the scientific community.
“A large number of scientists are saying, yes, indeed, it’s warming,” Lindzen acknowledged. “And they might even add that perhaps there is a matter of concern. Relatively few that I know of who even support the narrative would ever say that this is involving an existential threat.”
Asked point blank, “What do you think we should do about global warming?” Lindzen replied: “Nothing.”
Lindzen, known for his research on the dynamics of the atmosphere, including the study of atmospheric tides and the interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans, said that there is “pretty universal agreement” that “if the whole Anglosphere and the European Union were to shut down completely, bury all industrial activity so we don’t generate CO2 … its impact on climate would be negligible.”
“The rest of the world is going to continue and they’re now dominating emissions,” he explained. “So no matter what you believe about climate, our actions will do nothing about climate.”
Just when you think you’ve heard it all
Church of Satan
In honor of Earth Hour, nearly every private jet in the skies turned off interior lights for one hour. Those jet owners certainly take care of the environment.
Pope Greta the Simple ordered the commie acolyte to do it.
Those who walk in darkness… apparently like that darkness.
Soros and his leftist pals long ago infiltrated the church and infested it to the highest levels
Worshiping the creation not the creator.
Best Response to Global Warming Is to Do ‘Nothing,’ MIT Climate Scientist Says!
At a time when the world is falling headlong into spiritual darkness, the Church has chosen to extinguish its own light, literally, by denying its scattered sheep a chance to gaze upon its glorious façade, adorned with statues of Our Lord and His beloved apostles, but also, figuratively, by substituting, since Vatican II, Christ’s mandate to go forth and teach all nations the Catholic faith with an ecumenical anti-religion rooted in the Masonic concept of the brotherhood of man.
The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. Its members, as Matthew 5:14 states, are “the light of the world.” The Vatican’s Earth Hour blackout — a sort of self-imposed cancelation that Satan, the prince of darkness, surely delighted in — reveals that it despises what Matthew’s Gospel goes on to say: “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
It is difficult to think of a more fitting verse to describe the situation at hand. Where the Gospel says, “let your light shine before men,” the post-conciliar church responds, “only if doesn’t harm the environment.”
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