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In this Pope there’s hope…
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Seriously, he is going to have to start wearing a bullet-proof vest and having people check the brakes on the Pope-Mobile.
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Time for conservative hypocrisy. Either align yourself with your pontiff and support his notion while alienating big oil, or align with big oil and distance yourself from your pontiff.
Let the games begin.
OMG where to start…
Hmm…reminds me of a pretty popular - and often mis-quoted - book about some libby liberal dude who railed against this exact sort of thing.
Would that the last one there was enough to convince people, but here we are. Good thing we have the right Pope at the right time to give the much-needed moral authority to scientific fact. <rolleyes> I’m sincerely pleased that Francis did this, but at the same time depressed that it was required.
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But faithicizing your politics is still, OK, right? And besides this isn’t politicizing faith, it’s moralizing the science and anti-Jesusifying your asshattery.
Whoa now…let’s not get carried away. What if my AC is powered solely by a molten salt solar power station? It’s not, but what if it were?
Seriously, though, this is the outline of a strawman conservatards use to shut down conversation. “Oh, you want us to give up everything and live in sweltering tent-cities!” I think we can make great progress in wealthy nations without necessarily giving up air conditioning. Not that a more austere lifestyle is necessarily a bad thing, just that proposing it tends to shut down the discussion.
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“I don’t think we should politicize our faith,” U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, a Catholic convert, said on the eve of the encyclical’s release. “I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.”
Then keep your religion out of my uterus, hypocrite.
God bless Francis for this; hope he has a food tester.
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Yes, I wonder if JEB! objected when some priests said they would not give Ted Kennedy, and later John Kerry, communion.
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“I don’t think we should politicize our faith,” U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, a Catholic convert, said on the eve of the encyclical’s release. “I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.”
So, I guess I’ll put Jeb (no last name please) as a no when it comes to Religious Freedom Restoration laws?
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I’m glad to see the Pope go so far in recognizing the problem of global warming. Sad that he is still in denial about population growth being part of that problem.
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A pile of filth, that is a bit hyperbolic by his Popeness but it does make his point.
Back in the day, a term I despise but use, this was the norm, speaking wisely on a subject and informing the masses. Intelligence was all that was accepted and the Pope was golden, so to speak. Dumb didn’t fly.
Now we are at dumb first and dumb forever. Doubt all forms of intelligence, even the one passed on through God’s mouthpiece.
It isn’t science denying, it’s sticking to a losing fight no matter what. Being hardheaded, never saying die. The deniers are really just not agreeers (word), they know better but don’t give a flying fig, the facts get in the way of their monay. Greed is a powerful potion. The disagreers (word) crave money more than the basics of life, clean water and air, a livable environment, sustainability.
Their savior had no need for wealth or greed but they still hoard money and destroy Earth to amass wealth because it will supposedly get them back to God. What, think about that. The supposedly religious defy the word of their savior and all of his messengers, destroy the home that he made for them, then expect to be welcomed into the sky Kingdom with their fat bank accounts and destructive ways. Deniers please!
The wealthy, the ultra-religious and the Armageddon army had best get together and build their own heaven, on top of a rainforest would be apropos, because the Sky Heaven reserves the right to deny them service.
A pile of filth in a warmer climate is going to reek to high heaven also too, so I’m thinking, invest in air fresheners and incinerators. The Pope has spoken.
if progressives got together a chorus of voices calling on the Pope to found a new religious order – just as many urged John Paul II to start an order fighting against abortion rights – devoted to the natural and human ecology issues in this encyclical, such an order could be a REAL game changer on this issue
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You don’t have to wait; just, if you can, drive threw one of the the “gated communities”.
Shorter Conservative Denialists: Killing a single fetus is murder,killing all of them is free enterprise.