Pope Francis warns of destruction of Earth's ecosystem in l
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I wonder if he will mention that we need to stop immunizing people from deadly diseases. Less people on the planet would ease the environmental burden. Perhaps ease the restrictions on contraceptives and advocate people only have enough children that they can care for financially.
Not in your lifetime.....
Why don't we just start killing them all. It would be faster.
Radiant1
Soul Probe
That's a bit of a stretch. If I call my car "she" am I worshiping it?
I think we should start with the retirees. They're a waste of oxygen.
b23hqb
Well-Known Member
good stewardship of the planet and its resources are one thing ...... this is just plain wired
it is a planet, not a woman
.... same chit the tree hugging hippies do Gaia worship
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/30/james-lovelock-environmentalism-religion
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frogman123
New Member
You are hung up on the Pope calling earth a "she"? Wow. I think you missed the ENTIRE point of the story and don't fully grasp that this is a big deal for the Pope to take a stance. But hey, that would go against your crazy rhetoric and we can't be having that!
b23hqb
Well-Known Member
How about we just grandfather in the retirees who have already reached that exalted status, and just eliminate, say, 15 years from today back all those who would be eligible to retire any time after today? Not only would that save a lot of oxygen, but would eliminate all the hot air belching from them, subsequently cooling the planet.
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Chuckt
Guest
I am forced to buy products that are poorly made, they break and they go bad so we have to constantly throw products out.
wtf are going on about
Radiant1
Soul Probe
You didn't answer my question. If I call my car "she" am I worshiping it?
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Chuckt
Guest
Radiant1
Soul Probe
You didn't answer the question either.
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Chuckt
Guest
If giving more importance to a non-living object worship? It all depends on the definition being used and a case could be made upon the actual definitions.
Only you and God knows.
I know what I know.
Ecology Theology
I am not Catholic and I am not overly concerned about Pope Francis’s encyclical. But even us Protestants should remember that the Bible does have an ecology theology in it.
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Remember though Gen 8:22: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Arguably this makes the case against global warming as something we must genuinely fret about. We have to be responsible, but remember we are to have dominion. We do not serve the earth. The earth serves us. We are to take care of it as a master is to take care of his servant. That means we must not abuse it, but that does not prohibit us from commanding it.
Christians, according to John Stott, should avoid the extremes of deification of the planet and the full exploitation of the planet. We should be concerned about excessive waste disposal, deforestation, etc. Yes, we should recycle when we can. What we should not be concerned with is the idea that we will destroy ourselves or the planet. That is not so and the Bible contradicts that. The end of civilization comes when the return of our Lord Jesus to create the new heavens and the new earth, not with mankind creating artificial intelligence that exterminates us, or wiping ourselves out through environmental catastrophe, etc. The people who have set the world up as our god are idol worshippers.
Christians should show their care of the planet through their care of each other and their faithful stewardship of world resources.
I am not Catholic and I am not overly concerned about Pope Francis’s encyclical. But even us Protestants should remember that the Bible does have an ecology theology in it.
[clip]
Remember though Gen 8:22: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Arguably this makes the case against global warming as something we must genuinely fret about. We have to be responsible, but remember we are to have dominion. We do not serve the earth. The earth serves us. We are to take care of it as a master is to take care of his servant. That means we must not abuse it, but that does not prohibit us from commanding it.
Christians, according to John Stott, should avoid the extremes of deification of the planet and the full exploitation of the planet. We should be concerned about excessive waste disposal, deforestation, etc. Yes, we should recycle when we can. What we should not be concerned with is the idea that we will destroy ourselves or the planet. That is not so and the Bible contradicts that. The end of civilization comes when the return of our Lord Jesus to create the new heavens and the new earth, not with mankind creating artificial intelligence that exterminates us, or wiping ourselves out through environmental catastrophe, etc. The people who have set the world up as our god are idol worshippers.
Christians should show their care of the planet through their care of each other and their faithful stewardship of world resources.
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Chuckt
Guest
Will the pope sway Catholics on climate change? Not if evangelicals are any indication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hange-not-if-evangelicals-are-any-indication/
Evangelicals have been there, tried that. Didn't work...
The minority cannot change climate change because you would have to adopt a one child per family policy in the world and what you would be doing is saving the resources of the world for the rich; make sure there are enough resources for the rich so they don't have to wait in line and so forth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hange-not-if-evangelicals-are-any-indication/
Evangelicals have been there, tried that. Didn't work...
The minority cannot change climate change because you would have to adopt a one child per family policy in the world and what you would be doing is saving the resources of the world for the rich; make sure there are enough resources for the rich so they don't have to wait in line and so forth.
ProximaCentauri
Member
Hmm, methinks your rationalizations just might be bordering on the clinical insane...
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Chuckt
Guest
You have to provide more context in order for me to have an intelligent conversation with you.