-By Warner Todd Huston
From now on, Pope Francis should be utterly dismissed as an important leader of the world. His latest global warming “encyclical” has proven he subscribes to a risible, anti-western and anti-capitalist theology and is less a Catholic than a communist.
I have been saying that this disastrous pope is a commie since his first few public addresses, but Catholic apologists who can’t get past their fealty to their “god on earth” have always found little outs, ways to dismiss the criticism of their pope by claiming that Francis is really just badly stating longstanding Catholic doctrine.
But with Francis’ new encyclical On Care For Our Common Home, the pope’s latest paean to the religion of global warming leaves no doubt that he stands against western values in most cases.
In this message–which lays out this terrible pope’s absurd ideas on his new religion of global warming–says that we need to stop buying things and turn the world back several thousand years to a time when life was brutal, uncomfortable, and short. He is essentially calling for an end to capitalism in this rambling paper.
Pope Francis goes on to claim that wealthy countries need to stop being wealthy and give away everything to the supposedly poorer nations but he doesn’t spend a second coming to term with why they are poor. He just assumes that rich nations are greedy and evil and must stop being so wealthy. This is quite a communistic theme.
Francis rails about all sorts of things in this jumble of nonsense. In paragraph 55 Francis even rails about the evils of air conditioning, of all things.
Get a load of this left-wing nonsense in paragraph 23 of his blather:
The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. At the global level, it is a complex system linked to many of the essential conditions for human life. A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it. It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth’s orbit and axis, the solar cycle), yet a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity. Concentrated in the atmosphere, these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun’s rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space. The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system. Another determining factor has been an increase in changed uses of the soil, principally deforestation for agricultural purposes.
Now, Francis tries to hide his anti-modernity behind claims that the Church has always called for man to be better “stewards” of the earth. This is true and not a bad point. But his screed goes quite a bit farther than past popes and their idea that we should not be greedy, destroyers of da earf.
In this thing Francis gloms onto all the crazy theories of the global warmists which puts him well past the “good steward” phase of environmental care and into the flat out, commie-styled ludditeism of the left.
And to show how confused this silly man is (and he’s just a man, Catholics) he contradicts himself in his own screed. On one hand in number 61 he says not to sell out to the left’s penchant to wallow in “doomsday predictions,” but then goes on a few pages later in number 161 to claim that man can no longer look on the left’s environmental doomsday claims with “irony or disdain.” So which is it, dude? Should we reject doomsday predictions, or look upon them with favor?
This coming from a guy who believes in the ultimate doomsday of the Book of Revelations, I might add!
One thing that we on the right can find agreement with in this latest papal screed is his point that you can’t claim to love nature and the environment yet remain a supporter of abortion. The two positions, the red pope says, are incompatible.
The red pope told the left that caring about the environment goes hand-in-hand with supporting the pro-life movement and climate change and abortion are “interrelated.”
“Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion,” the encyclical says. “How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties?”
I find this logic irrefutable, really. So, this is one area where we can agree with Francis.
Still, that tiny bit of solace aside, pope Francis is a disaster for the west in general and Catholics in particular. He is anti-capitalist, anti-west, and favors ideas that are responsible for murdering more people in the last century than any ideology in human history including the murderous past of his own creed, Catholicism.
Lastly, it is important to note that we can separate what this horrible pope says and the religion he represents. Not being a Catholic, I don’t have to worry about the nonsense that he is some sort of god on earth like Catholics are unfortunate enough to be stuck with. But we can understand that this nut case isn’t really changing Church doctrine with his latest loathsome encyclical.
We can mark this new message as the blather of a fool without saying the Catholic Church itself is wholly at fault. Now, what Catholics do with this foolish man is another case. If they embrace him and continue to make excuses for him, they will put themselves at fault.
This pope should be excoriated and his words ignored from this point forward. Right thinking Catholics simply can’t continue to make excuses for this red pope. Those of you making excuses for this man are making yourselves look foolish.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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