It is remarkable how completely the Pope regurgitates the beliefs of liberal elites in the West:
By failing to care for “our garden-home”, the earth, and our brothers and sisters, the Pope said, we have sinned against the earth, against our neighbours, and ultimately against the Creator. Hence, we need to look at our common home, the earth, in a new way, in order to restore a harmonious relationship with the earth and with the rest of humanity.
We should not regard the earth as a “storehouse of resources for us to exploit”. For believers, the Pope said, the natural world is the “Gospel of Creation” as it expresses God’s creative power in fashioning human life and bringing the world and all it contains into existence, in order to sustain humanity.
The Pope called on all to renew their sense of sacred respect for the earth, saying “is not just our home but also God’s home”, and that ‘we stand on holy ground’.
In this regard, he held up the indigenous people as a model saying, “they teach us that we cannot heal the earth unless we love and respect it”.
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- Ecoworship: Check.
- New fangled “sins”: Check.
- Hostility to exploitation of natural resources: Check.
- Noble savage myth of “indigenous people”: Check.
PopeWatch doubts if the Pope has ever had an original thought in his life. He thinks and speaks in the crudest of Leftist cliches. It is an embarrassment having such an intellectually impoverished creature of his time and his place as Pope.
“PopeWatch doubts if the Pope has ever had an original thought in his life. He thinks and speaks in the crudest of Leftist cliches.”
Exactly right. He is bereft of anything remotely resembling intellectual curiosity or rigor. And to whom spiritual rigor is viewed as a sin in and of itself.
Having been born upon this planet, I am, by birthright, as indigenous as any other child of God.
What’s disturbing is that 3/4 of the College of Cardinals voted for this man in 2013, as had a bloc in 2005. I think it was Clemenceau who said the Presidency of France should be allocated to the stupidest man to be found. Was that the thinking in the College?
Once again, these are my thoughts.
https://youtu.be/qLpPAz0tz98
He went ahead with promoting the international conference COP15 on Biodiversity in Kunming, China October 2020
OCTOBER 2020. In China. ???
I’m almost certain, that were he living back then, this pope would have had some spittle-fueled words to throw in the direction of poor St Joseph (the carpenter) for abusing all those trees just to exploit the wood by making things with it.
I don’t think you find this kind of romanticism about nature prior to the late eighteenth century. If “mother nature” had her way, we’d all be dead. People used to understand that.
If “mother nature” had her way, we’d all be dead.
Comment of the week Ernst! Take ‘er away Sam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXeIxtI–uc
What about our little, if ever, mentioned Heavenly home?
Everything I’ve witnessed in the last month has more or less convinced me that our Bishop’s don’t believe in it.
But then I’m bitter and cynical.
“It is an embarrassment having such an intellectually impoverished creature of his time and his place as Pope.”
and by his own free will choice