Is Catholicism merging with another religion?
July 12th, 2008 at 02:08pm Pat Cunningham
To hear some people tell it, belief in global warming is a KIND OF RELIGION, one to be shunned as demonic and antithetical of all that is good in our world — like Hummers and snowmobiles.
If so, this weird denomination has an unlikely new member: Pope Benedict XVI.
The pontiff DECLARED today that he wants to “wake up consciences” about the challenges that climate change pose to humankind.
Said Benedict: “We have to give impulse to rediscovering our responsibility and to finding an ethical way to change our way of life.”
One wonders how the global-warming deniers will respond to this apostasy by the pope.
Will they seek to measure his carbon footprint and then mock him for it?
Will they renounce him as a tree-hugging enemy of free enterprise?
Will they tell him to stick to Catholicism and leave matters of climatology to the experts, like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter?
Entry Filed under: Pope Benedict XVI, Ann Coulter, global warming, religion, Rush Limbaugh
4 Comments Add your own
1. Menlo Bob | July 12th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Pope Benedict seem to be of two minds on the topic of climate change–unless he’s settled on a single position.
2. Pat Cunningham | July 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Single position? Of course. He’s a priest. Some priests have been known to fool around a little, but they’re all single (except for the former Episcopalian clergy who converted to Catholicism; they’re marriages are kind of grandfathered by the Vatican.)
3. Q Jordon | July 13th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Did not the Catholic church try to merge with another religious ideology in the forties?
That is if you consider Nazism as a religion.
I will bite my tongue on how I feel about the Evil Alliance that was formed during WWII.
4. Echo4Charlie | July 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Interesting outlooks. Combined with eschatolgical studies, and the potential involvement the Catholic Church is purported to have in reference to the Antichrist in the “end times”, there are a lot of points of interest and disparity with the Catholic Church.
And, I’m Catholic.
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