Many readers and myself have become quite dismayed by the Vatican’s new position on the junk climate science-based, anti-humanity movement against fossil fuels.
Interestingly today I read a report in the Catholic Herald here where it is clearly miffed by how Britain’s UKIP party “now commands the support of an estimated one in six Catholics” and is “causing increasing alarm among Church leaders.” My, how could that be!
Well, we all understand that things move glacially slow at the Vatican, and we don’t expect them to see the light any time soon, even though it’s staring at them straight in the face. These things can take centuries.
Catholics reject intolerance and hatred
One reason Catholics are rejecting the positions held by the Church is no better illustrated than by the following article appearing in the The Daily Mail:
I’ve never supported the British National Party or the Ku Klux Klan. I’ve never belonged to the Paedophile Information Exchange, or denied the Holocaust, or made a penny from the banking crash.
But if you read The Guardian newspaper’s website, you might think otherwise. A commentator on it urged my own children to murder me.
He did so because of one of the many stories I’ve written for this newspaper about climate change. I first reported on the subject nearly six years ago: my article was about the ‘climategate’ scandal, where leaked emails…”
[…]
…”But ultimately, where are they taking us? Citing climate change is certainly an effective way of making schoolchildren feel fearful and guilty, much as preachers once used to.”
Read more at the Daily Mail.
Leaders will have to learn to face one fact: thanks to the Internet followers are much better informed today and many can see the cliff up ahead which their leaders are blindly leading them to. The Catholic Church is part of that green movement.
Catholics want nothing to do with and are appalled by the hate and bigotry that gets aimed at honest dissenters such as David Rose. And we reject the deception-riddled plot to deny the world of life-giving fossil fuels as well as the mentally ill hysteria of a world coming to an end.
If anything what we need is an encyclical on the necessity of fossil fuels.
It’s truly stunning that the Church can be so tolerant of the bigotry and intolerance on one side of the debate, yet be so quick to condemn honest dissent on the other.
Well said. Bravo!
as a franch i don’t know much about david rose
so i goggled this https://www.google.fr/search?q=David+Rose+(journalist)&oq=David+Rose+(journalist)&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=David+Rose+(journalist)&safe=off&start=10
wow …he is the aim for sure…
Interestingly, the first information revolution was that of the printed book, and who was the big loser? The Catholic church which then saw its authority challenged by a group of sceptics who looked for the evidence at source in the bible (sound familiar?)
Now the internet has created another information revolution, because now you don’t even need a printing press to get your views out to the public, but instead anyone with a PC and a hour can spend can write a blog article.
So, suddenly the world is awash with ideas and views – not from those press barons & politicians who controlled the flow of information from government -> press -> public. But now the information flows is public public. (and now no need for government nor the press).
So, now the internet is doing to these establishment institutions what the printed word did the Catholic church.
And in 1520 the church issued a decree against sceptics … and now in 2015 … the last bit of “the church” will issue another fatwa against sceptics.
I think this is the decree you are referring to: http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/L10EXDOM.HTM
An excerpt from the decree (the pope speaking with the royal ‘we’):
“Moreover, because the preceding errors and many others are contained in the books or writings of Martin Luther, we likewise condemn, reprobate, and reject completely the books and all the writings and sermons of the said Martin, whether in Latin or any other language, containing the said errors or any one of them; and we wish them to be regarded as utterly condemned, reprobated, and rejected. We forbid each and every one of the faithful of either sex, in virtue of holy obedience and under the above penalties to be incurred automatically, to read, assert, preach, praise, print, publish, or defend them. They will incur these penalties if they presume to uphold them in any way, personally or through another or others, directly or indirectly, tacitly or explicitly, publicly or occultly [i.e., secretly], either in their own homes or in other public or private places.
“Indeed immediately after the publication of this letter these works, wherever they may be, shall be sought out carefully by the ordinaries and others [ecclesiastics and regulars], and under each and every one of the above penalties shall be burned publicly and solemnly in the presence of the clerics and people.”
Book burning indeed.
That’s a weird but expected smear piece by that CatholicHerald
“Out of this political wasteland has emerged Nigel Farage, whose chief attraction is his very unpolitical way of saying what many think”
It is unpolitical to say what many think? Well obviously the catholic church has its arrangement with the establishment and doesn’t care one wit how antidemocratic their pseudo reasoning sounds, exactly like the current utterances of German state-subsidized churches against PEGIDA.
The strains are showing; a re-arrangement is imminent. The power holders fear that moment.
As for the climate hierarchy, or climate chain of command, I understand that it is now something like this:
Kevin Trenberth reports to the IPCC.
The IPCC reports to WWF.
WWF reports to the Potsdam Institute.
The Potsdam Institute reports to the World Bank.
The World Bank reports to the Pope.
The Pope reports to God.
God reports to Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.
And Schellnhuber reports to Kevin Trenberth; that’s called divine information loop.
Should anyone be listening on scientific issues to a church that just recently pardoned Galileo….. I think that says it all.
Nicely said. I’ll likely be using that line in the future. Indeed they ought to stick to the topics of life and morality.
I am a Catholic and I am disgusted that the Pope has aligned the Vatican with the ‘Church of Man-Made Global Warming’.
It seems the Church has not yet learned its lesson from the days of Galileo.
In 1992, 350 years after Galileo died, the Vatican acknowledged the overturned the Inquisition’s ruling against Galileo was and acknowledged that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct.
The heliocentric theory was supported by Galileo, which is why he was tried for heresy. Sir Isaac Newton proved it was correct… yet those great ‘scientists’ in the Vatican left it until 1992 to admit they were wrong.
That’s the Vatican for you!!!