President Barack Hussein Obama has just come out of the closet as a gay man and has also "outed" Michelle Obama as a "man" by saying "I walk with my husband Michael and hold hands!- https://youtu.be/ejb4Uv-d1jcb
Worrying about global warming or climate change is plain and simple Creation or Nature Worship!
It is the worship of nature and the creation more than the Creator!
Fits in with Saint Francis of Asisi and his worshipping the creature.
Romans 1:22-27
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that
which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the
natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men
with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet.
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five
languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’
exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the
battle against global warming?
Pope Francis on a visit to the Philippines in January. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent
catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the
world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.
In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the
pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the
planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries, and that
the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The
much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the world’s 5,000
Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday
and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken
pontiff.
However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in
America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing
rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.
The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope,
will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes
of poverty and the threats facing nature, or “creation”.
In a recent speech widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the encyclical,
Turkson said: “Much of the world remains in poverty, despite abundant
resources, while a privileged global elite controls the bulk of the
world’s wealth and consumes the bulk of its resources.”
The Argentinian pontiff is expected to repeat calls for a change in
attitudes to poverty and nature. “An economic system centred on the god
of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of
consumption that is inherent to it,” he told a meeting of social
movements last year. “I think a question that we are not asking
ourselves is: isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate
and tyrannical use of nature? Safeguard creation because, if we destroy
it, it will destroy us. Never forget this.”
The encyclical will go much further than strictly environmental
concerns, say Vatican insiders. “Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that
the environment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an
anthropological and ethical matter,” said another of the pope’s
advisers, Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Peru.
“It will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of
resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible
exploitation of nature and the consequences for people’s life and
health,” Barreto Jimeno told the Catholic News Service.
He was echoed by Cardinal Oscar RodrÃguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who
coordinates the Vatican’s inner council of cardinals and is thought to
reflect the pope’s political thinking . “The ideology surrounding
environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to
stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their
profits,” RodrÃguez Maradiaga said.
The rare encyclical, called “Laudato Sii”, or “Praised Be”, has been
timed to have maximum public impact ahead of the pope’s meeting with
Barack Obama and his address to the US Congress and the UN general
assembly in September.
It is also intended to improve the prospect of a strong new UN global
agreement to cut climate emissions. By adding a moral dimension to the
well-rehearsed scientific arguments, Francis hopes to raise the ambition
of countries above their own self-interest to secure a strong deal in a
crucial climate summit in Paris in November.
“Pope Francis is personally committed to this [climate] issue like no
other pope before him. The encyclical will have a major impact. It will
speak to the moral imperative of addressing climate change in a timely
fashion in order to protect the most vulnerable,” said Christiana
Figueres, the UN’s climate chief, in Bonn this week for negotiations.
Francis, the first Latin American pope, is increasingly seen as the
voice of the global south and a catalyst for change in global bodies. In
September, he will seek to add impetus and moral authority to UN
negotiations in New York to adopt new development goals and lay out a
15-year global plan to tackle hunger, extreme poverty and health. He
will address the UN general assembly on 23 September as countries
finalise their commitments.
However, Francis’s radicalism is attracting resistance from Vatican
conservatives and in rightwing church circles, particularly in the US –
where Catholic climate sceptics also include John Boehner, Republican
leader of the House of Representatives, and Rick Santorum, a Republican
presidential candidate.
Earlier this year Stephen Moore, a Catholic economist, called the
pope a “complete disaster”, saying he was part of “a radical green
movement that is at its core anti-Christian, anti-people and
anti-progress”.
Moore was backed this month by scientists and engineers from the
powerful evangelical Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation,
who have written an open letter to Francis. “Today many prominent voices
call humanity a scourge on our planet, saying that man is the problem,
not the solution. Such attitudes too often contaminate their assessment
of man’s effects on nature,” it says.
But the encyclical will be well received in developing countries,
where most Catholics live. “Francis has always put the poor at the
centre of everything he has said. The developing countries will hear
their voice in the encyclical,” said Neil Thorns, director of advocacy
at the Catholic development agency, Cafod. “I expect it to challenge the
way we think. The message that we cannot just treat the Earth as a tool
for exploitation will be a message that many will not want to hear.”
The pope is “aiming at a change of heart. What will save us is not
technology or science. What will save us is the ethical transformation
of our society,” said Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel, a climate
scientist who teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
in Buenos Aires.
Pastor Doug Batchelor has recorded a brief but important
analysis of a remarkable new video message from Pope Francis to a recent
gathering
of Christians from several denominations at a gathering in
Phoenix, Arizona.
This passionate call for unity from the Vatican was
delivered to members of the "John 17 Movement," which describes itself
as "a contagious
call to all professing Christians to relate together
properly, beckoning us to embrace the final prayer of Jesus." The pope
said that Christian
division is a wound in the body and is the work of the
"Father of Discord."
In the video, Francis uses language that conspicuously
echoes biblical imagery. Pastor Batchelor believes this Papal call for
unity between
Protestants and Catholics harmonizes with Revelation’s
prophecy, especially chapter 13, regarding the deadly wound. He urges
ministry friends
to prayerfully watch and share the video.
He says, "The Bible predicts a false religious movement will
arise in the last days to force the world to follow after unbiblical
teachings,
all cloaked in the forms of 'united Christianity.' It will
present itself as the one true church, a religious power that was
'mortally wounded,'
but whose 'deadly wound was healed.' The whole world will
marvel and follow this beast power at the expense of Bible truth.
Christians need
to know their Bibles and draw as near to Jesus so they can
to avoid this deception."
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Putin kept the
leader of 1.2 billion Catholics waiting for 70 minutes -- a rare
occurrence at the Vatican. At their first meeting in November 2013, he
was 50 minutes late. That was about how long their second encounter
lasted.
The meeting
got off to a chilly start. Francis looked solemn as he greeted Putin in
German with a simple “welcome” in his study at the Apostolic Palace.
Putin, who picked up the language as a KGB agent in East Germany,
responded with a gesture of thanks.
The
two men sat on opposite sides of the pope’s desk, gazing at each other
in silence as they waited for journalists and photographers to leave.
Once alone, they cut to the chase.
On
Ukraine, “the Holy Father stated the need to commit to a sincere and
great effort to achieve peace, and it was agreed it was important to
rebuild a climate of dialogue and that all parties commit to enforce the
Minsk accords,” referring to the cease-fire deal signed in February,
the pope’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said in a statement.
The pope asked that aid workers be given access to address the “serious” humanitarian crisis, Lombardi said.
The
conversation then shifted to the Middle East, in particular Syria and
Iraq, where both agreed on the urgency for peace with a special
reference to the plight of Christian minorities in the Muslim-dominated
region.
The
one-on-one ended with the pontiff, conceding a slight smile and gifting
Putin a medallion with a veiled reference to Ukraine and other
conflicts.
According to Lombardi, Francis told Putin the medallion
represented “the angel of peace, which defeats all wars and speaks of
solidarity among peoples.”
Francis has repeatedly called for peace in Ukraine, but diplomatically has stopped short of mentioning Russia by name.
Earlier
on Wednesday Kenneth Hackett, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See,
urged the pope to say “something more about concern of territorial
integrity, those types of issues.”
Asked
why Putin was so late, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were
delays in Milan, where the Russian leader was visiting the Expo 2015
world fair and seeing Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Peskov said the papal meeting was “very friendly” and Putin saw Francis as a “profound’ person.
Putin
left the Vatican in a black stretch Mercedes limousine, at the head of a
13-vehicle motorcade, just in time for a quick pow wow at the airport
with an old friend, ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi.
A former federal government undercover agent confesses the truth of his involvement with the Waco Massacre, the Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, and his involvement in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, as well as 9/11.
It was just five months ago that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said he wants
leaders from the faith community to “rise up and engage America in the
public square with Biblical values.” The likely Republican presidential
candidate added, “The time has come for pastors to lead the way and
reset the course of American governance.”
This is not an uncommon sentiment in GOP politics. As the
party continues to move sharply to the right, Republican hostility
towards church-state separation has become the norm. In culture-war
debates over gay rights and reproductive rights, for example, the right
routinely argues that policymakers should heed the appeals from
religious leaders.
More generally, conservatives express alarm about the left
trying to push voices from the faith community “out of the public
square.” It’s these religious leaders, the GOP argues, that should help
guide public debate.
With this in mind, it seemed almost miraculous to see this Politico piece yesterday.
After Pope Francis moved to recognize a Palestinian state,
some gung-ho defenders of Israel suggested the pontiff should stick to
preaching and stay out of politics.
“It’s interesting how the Vatican has gotten so political
when ultimately the Vatican ought to be working to lead people to Jesus
Christ and salvation, and that’s what the Church is supposed to do,”
said Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), a hawkish defender of Israel.
Note, a variety of lawmakers expressed public disagreement –
and in some cases, deep disappointment – with Pope Francis’s move
towards officially recognizing Palestinians. And to be sure, there’s
nothing wrong with a spirited debate, with some American policymakers on
one side and the Catholic leader on the other.
But that’s not what Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said, exactly.
Rather, he suggested Pope Francis should stay out of the debate
altogether – the Vatican can focus on spiritual matters, the South
Carolinian argued, and stay out of politics.
Imagine that. When church leaders condemn abortion,
congressional Republicans shout, “Amen.” When the pope enters a foreign
policy debate, suddenly we effectively hear, “Mind your own business,
padre.”
Indeed, when President Reagan worked with
Pope John Paul II on a variety of issues, Republicans saw it as an
important diplomatic partnership. But now that it’s President Obama and
Pope Francis who are often aligned – on climate change, on Iran nuclear
talks, on diplomacy with Cuba, on economic inequality, on pay equity for
women – and some GOP officials suddenly aren’t pleased at all with the
Vatican’s interest in contemporary politics.
Over at Daily Kos, Laura Clawson added,
“Republicans have shown time and time again that they have no problem
whatsoever with religion in politics. Now we know how particular they
are about whose religion and whose politics. Catholic leaders in
politics are fine as long as they’re threatening to deny communion to
Democrats over abortion, but let a pope talk about economic inequality
and poverty and suddenly Republicans discover that they’d really prefer
it if religious leaders would keep quiet and let politicians speak for
them.”
Francis will deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress
in the fall, at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
It’s bound to be interesting.
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