When A Pope Goes All Politically Correct SJW and Also Goes Against It

In an impassioned address Friday, Pope Francis denied the existence of Islamic terrorism, while simultaneously asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.”

While denying the existence of Islamic terrorism, Francis also seemed to condemn the denial of global warming, asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.”
“A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system,” he said.
We know “what happens when we deny science and disregard the voice of Nature,” the Pope said. “Let us not fall into denial. Time is running out. Let us act. I ask you again—all of you, people of all backgrounds including native people, pastors, political leaders—to defend Creation.”

But also the Pope goes anti-PC:

In his address Friday, the Pope denounced “the guise of what is politically correct or ideologically fashionable,” which he described as a “hypocritical attitude,” while urging real solutions to unemployment, corruption, the identity crisis, and “the gutting of democracies.”

Breaking News: "God Is Not a Magician": Pope

The pope has demoted God. Apparently that's what God told him to do.

The Pope Spins Jesus to Placate Muslims

Pope Francis Just Compared the Great Commission to Jihad

"Yes, you read that right. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, the pontiff who speaks for 1 billion Christians, said that Jesus's call to "make disciples of all nations" can be considered equivalent to the Islamic conquest of nations following the death of Mohammed. This conquest is a primary motivation for radical Islamic terrorism today, and the biggest Christian leader said "the same idea of conquest" can be linked to the Great Commission in the Gospel of Matthew.

In an interview on Tuesday with the French magazine La Croix, Francis minimized the difference between Islam and Christianity, arguing that the religions share a concept of subjugation.

'Today, I don't think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam. It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew's Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.'

This connection is so asinine, it can only be explained as a deduction from the liberal tenet that all religions are morally equivalent. Here is the passage, in Matthew 28, where Jesus issues the "Great Commission" to his followers (New International Version).

16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Jesus does say "all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me," but in context this does not mean every nation should surrender to his political leadership. He explicitly asks his disciples to do something different -- to "make disciples" of all nations, not to make colonies of them."

This Pope is certifiable.

Muhammad said, "follow me, obey my laws, or die."

Jesus said, "If you are not accepted, then kick the dust off your sandals and move on".

Disregard this article: The evidence is false. "Pushback on Papal Politics: The Log Jam in His Eye".

CORRECTION: After closely examining the google satellite map of the Vatican, I've concluded that there appears to be no continuous wall, although there is a huge wall partially on three sides, and closed-courtyard buildings. No complete surrounding wall. I fell for the photo. I'm not sure about the immigration policy, either. So disregard the following poorly researched post.


Yo! Pope! Tear Down That WALL!

VATICAN SURROUNDED BY WALLS...

Vatican has most restrictive immigration policy

Sessions: ...I think he probably is not sufficiently informed, and I would say that despite some of the biblical things, Nehemiah went back to Jerusalem and the Lord commanded him to build a wall.

Not informed? So... No one told him about the huge wall around the Vatican?? He needs a better staff or God-connection.

If anything could discredit this papacy, this pope will find it and assert it. Maybe the other pope should come back on board.

Atheists Misunderstand the Pope

Atheist wishful thinking: "Yeah, I'll go to heaven without believing it exists: Cool!"

Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven

“You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying – and this is the fundamental thing – that God’s mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience.

“Sin, even for those who have no faith, exists when people disobey their conscience.”

Of course, what this really says is, "Go to him" sincerely and contritely; that is the condition for receiving God's Mercy. And that is not Atheism any more, is it?
[A: no it is not].

Further, to obey one's conscience is another way of saying, listen to the God inside you - the Holy Spirit. Atheists listen to their appetites and proclivities, then declare that to be "rational". And most have long since declared their superiority, intellectually and morally, not only to believers, but to God and certainly the Pope.

The false belief that the Pope says they need not believe in order to receive access to heaven will only serve to confirm their "specialness" in their already elitist minds.

Most actual Atheists have no chance of meeting the Pope's criteria. That's because these critieria are defining a believer, not an Atheist.

Continuing Adventures of an Insane Pope

Vatican signs treaty with "State of Palestine"

" VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican signed a treaty with the "State of Palestine" on Friday, saying it hoped its legal recognition of the state would help stimulate peace with Israel and that the treaty itself would serve as a model for other Mideast countries.

Vatican Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher and his Palestinian counterpart, Riad al-Malki, signed the treaty at a ceremony inside the Vatican."

It Makes Sense... Now

I was bemused by the Pope's assumption of the Truth value in AGW, to the point of having Skeptics banned. It turnss out that the Pope's "science" adviser is a pagan pantheist who believes that the earth is alive and is called Gaia. In other words, the Pope is endorsing an Atheist Scientistic pseudo-religion.

The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis

"St. Francis of Assisi’s hymn Laudato Si’ spoke of “Brothers” Sun and Fire and “Sisters” Moon and Water, using these colorful phrases figuratively, as a way of praising God’s creation. These sentimental words so touched Pope Francis that he named his encyclical after this canticle (repeated in paragraph 87 of the Holy Father’s letter).

Neither Pope Francis nor St. Francis took the words literally, of course. Neither believed that fire was alive and could be talked to or reasoned with or, worse, worshiped. Strange, then, that a self-professed atheist and scientific advisor to the Vatican named Hans Schellnhuber appears to believe in a Mother Earth.
Gaia

The Gaia Principle, first advanced by chemist James Lovelock (who has lately had second thoughts) and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, says that all life interacts with the Earth, and the Earth with all life, to form a giant self-regulating, living system.

This goes far beyond the fact that the Earth’s climate system has feedbacks, which are at the very center of the debate over climate change. In the Gaia Principle, Mother Earth is alive, and even, some think, aware in some ill-defined, mystical way. The Earth knows man and his activities and, frankly, isn’t too happy with him.

This is what we might call “scientific pantheism,” a kind that appeals to atheistic scientists. It is an updated version of the pagan belief that the universe itself is God, that the Earth is at least semi-divine — a real Brother Sun and Sister Water! Mother Earth is immanent in creation and not transcendent, like the Christian God.

What’s this have to do with Schellnhuber? In the 1999 Nature paper “‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution,” he said:

Ecosphere science is therefore coming of age, lending respectability to its romantic companion, Gaia theory, as pioneered by Lovelock and Margulis. This hotly debated ‘geophysiological’ approach to Earth-system analysis argues that the biosphere contributes in an almost cognizant way to self-regulating feedback mechanisms that have kept the Earth’s surface environment stable and habitable for life.

Geo-physiological, in case you missed it. Cognizant, in black and white. So dedicated is Schellnhuber to this belief that he says “the Gaia approach may even include the influence of biospheric activities on the Earth’s plate-tectonic processes.” Not the other way around, mind you, where continental drift and earthquakes effects life, but where life effects earthquakes.

He elaborates:

Although effects such as the glaciations may still be interpreted as over-reactions to small disturbances — a kind of cathartic geophysiological fever — the main events, resulting in accelerated maturation by shock treatment, indicate that Gaia faces a powerful antagonist. Rampino has proposed personifying this opposition as Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.

Mother Earth gets the flu and instead of white blood cells and a rise in temperature to fend off the infection, it sends white ice and a decrease in temperatures. How? Geophysiologically! I remind the reader that our author, writing in one of the world’s most prominent science journals, does not use these propositions metaphorically. He proposes them as actual mechanisms.

Schellnhuber echoes the theme of a cognizant, i.e. self-aware, planet in another (co-authored) 2004 paper in Nature 2004, “Climbing the co-evolution ladder,” suggesting again that mankind is an infection, saying that mankind “perturbs … the global ‘metabolism'” of the planet."

It's still not clear if the Pope actually is driving this, or if he has been duped by his underlings. It might be either, because he is an SJW, and AGW is a Social Justice issue.

Another Pope Goes Off the Deep End

Pope says weapons manufacturers can't call themselves Christian

"People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.

Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.

"If you trust only men you have lost," he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.

"It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" he said to applause."

As I recall, the Vatican has its armed guards, although they might be ineffective in their pantaloons and spears... but maybe not, if all they oppose is a mob with pitchforks and torches. Still, not too effective against Islamic AK47s, one would think.

More to the point, Christianity - as I understand it, anyway - is purely between an individual and God, with God actually being within the individual as the Holy Spirit, and with God being the sole judge of the individual.

But here the Pope is condemning classes of people, as Popes and SJWs do, this time the class of people who are involved in the evil activity of manufacturing weapons. Let's see. If the Jews were armed and prepared to use them, they might have at least forced their escape from NAZI provinces, and the Pope wouldn't need to regret the Holocaust. And if the Allies had not ramped up arms manufacturing, the Pope would be German, be speaking German and admiring the Fuhrer.

But maybe the Pope means that it is the gun which is evil, perhaps possessed? To produce an object which automatically becomes possessed would be evil by association, apparently. Now, I have not personally seen the evil which the Pope apparently thinks inhabits the many guns I have witnessed, held, and shot. Still, maybe the Pope could order a massive exorcism for all weapons, similar to the mass exorcism for the entire nation of Mexico which was just performed. He's in charge; he could get it done. So it is actually up to him, isn't it? Why does he talk about evil in weapons when he could do what's necessary to take care of the issue?

From a calmer viewpoint, of course, the issue is not the weapon or the manufacturer. The problem is in the souls of men. The Pope is on the wrong path. He's following the path of modern Social Justice Warriors. That path is not biblical, at least by my readings.