Climate Change and the Mark of the Beast
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COVID-19, global warming and diminishing Catholic guilt
COVID-19 and global warming are enough to make me long for the days of clerical power and Catholic guilt. In those good/bad old days, the church's hierarchy was able to issue thunderous edicts and most Catholics would follow its directions like sheep. If the laity did not, they would feel guilty and fear going to hell.
The church used to have the power to make and break kings; the power to shape cultures and command people's actions. Too bad it does not have such power to save humanity from itself today.
Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
This would be quite a change from the days when Galileo and Darwin were considered heretics. This time clerical power would be backing up science.
Nothing would give me more illicit pleasure than having the governors of Florida and Texas, along with the leaders of the oil and coal industries, excommunicated, just as kings and nobles were excommunicated in the past.
And rather than organizing crusades against Muslims, as it did in the past, the church could mobilize its people to protect the health of the Earth and humanity. But today, the children's crusade is led, not by the church, but by Greta Thunberg. Hopefully she will be more successful than the Children's Crusade of 1212, which ended in disaster.
There was a time when Christianity had the ability to do great things (some good, some bad).
We marvel at those Christians in the past who dug the foundations of great cathedrals, the completion of which they and their children would never see. The idea of taking on a project, like building a cathedral, that might take centuries to complete is incomprehensible to us.
Today, we find it impossible to make sacrifices (wear masks) that will benefit us in a few months, let alone make sacrifices (cut carbon emissions) that will benefit our grandchildren in future decades.
"Millions of us are going about our business worrying about our daily lives while Catholic bishops and elites (myself included) argue about the Latin Mass, Communion for politicians and Grindr, rather than the coming climate apocalypse"
Pope Francis, in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si', called the world to individual and systemic conversion to prevent the disaster that is quickly approaching. There are some who have responded, such as the Laudato Si' Movement (formerly known as the Global Catholic Climate Movement).
But millions of us are going about our business worrying about our daily lives while Catholic bishops and elites (myself included) argue about the Latin Mass, Communion for politicians and Grindr, rather than the coming climate apocalypse.
Francis is right. We need both individual and systemic conversion.
Our lifestyles must change, and our carbon-based economic system must change. We must turn the thermostat up in the summer and down in the winter. We must recycle and use less energy. But we also need government regulations and a carbon tax so that the entire economic system becomes less carbon dependent.
This will not be easy, but it must be done. The church has lost its clerical power, so I guess we will have to depend on Catholic guilt. But this time, the hell we face will be of our own making.
Written by Jesuit : Thomas Reese's
Original Link: COVID-19 and Global Warming
In those good/bad old days, the church's hierarchy was able to issue thunderous edicts
The church used to have the power to make and break kings; the power to shape cultures and command people's actions.
Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Jesuit Thomas Reese has just pointed the reader to historic facts called The Dark Ages !!!
Now lets dissect a piece of this article so you can examine the context within the present day !
Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Many individuals do not understand why all these censoring have occurred since early 2020 , there is a group of individuals call q that are trying to make it seem that it was trump doing that the censoring occurred , but the reality has nothing to do with the ex president , For he himself is playing the part he was assign to play Jesuit Theater ...
If you read Pope Francis Fratelli tutti it is all there for the reader to see where this censoring of information originated from , it is a papal ruling that has created the censoring ...
The Waldensians wrote also upon the little horn persecution ...
But many church Leaders in this present day , will not point you to History but lies ...
When a Jesuit acknowledges and agrees to what Protestant Reformers wrote upon the little horn
( Papacy) ungodly laws its serious ...
In those good/bad old days, the church's hierarchy was able to issue thunderous edicts
The church used to have the power to make and break kings; the power to shape cultures and command people's actions.
Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Jesuit Thomas Reese has just pointed the reader to historic facts called The Dark Ages !!!
Now lets dissect a piece of this article so you can examine the context within the present day !
Would that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Many individuals do not understand why all these censoring have occurred since early 2020 , there is a group of individuals call q that are trying to make it seem that it was trump doing that the censoring occurred , but the reality has nothing to do with the ex president , For he himself is playing the part he was assign to play Jesuit Theater ...
If you read Pope Francis Fratelli tutti it is all there for the reader to see where this censoring of information originated from , it is a papal ruling that has created the censoring ...
The Waldensians wrote also upon the little horn persecution ...
But many church Leaders in this present day , will not point you to History but lies ...
When a Jesuit acknowledges and agrees to what Protestant Reformers wrote upon the little horn
( Papacy) ungodly laws its serious ...