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Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this weeks encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade.
The prospect that the pope, from his perch at the pinnacle of the Catholic church, will exhort humanity to act on climate change as a moral imperative is a direct threat to a core belief of US conservatives. And conservatives anxious to hang on to their flock are lashing out.
The pope ought to stay with his job, and well stay with ours, James Inhofe, the granddaddy of climate change deniers in the US Congress and chairman of the Senate environment and public works committee, said last week, after picking up an award at a climate sceptics conference."
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/climate-change-conservatives-catholic-teaching
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)tell another group of people about the forest under their eyelids.
Still, it's nice to hear Mr. Inhofe say, as a Republican, he'd prefer a stronger separation of church and state. That's a first, for sure...
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)in 2012 on an anti-birth control platform, and it came out in an article that his wife in her 20s had lived with an older boyfriend who was a doctor who had an abortion clinic. But she didn't let that get in the way of her Sugar Daddy and traveling around the world with him, entertaining his friends, and remodeling his homes, and being the woman of the house without the benefit of marriage. The article even said she and Rick had lived together before they got married. But once they had children and baptized them into the Catholic Church, I guess they developed a conscience and felt they had to start practicing what they would soon start preaching. Hypocrits.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)He has been legislating the rapture for years. http://www.preteristarchive.com/dEmEnTiA/2002_corn_inhofe_pro-armageddon.html
He is no more an advocate of the No Establishment Clause then Santorum.
onecaliberal
(33,016 posts)Destroying the economy the environment and all the people you possibly can while enriching your bank accounts?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)"Leave science to the scientists!" as the Frothy Mixture put it, or, a la Inhofe, to the politicians.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)They should of kept religion out of politics but did not
No right to say much but they are hypocrites so they will shout about it
niyad
(114,003 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)the Vatican has a long history meddling in things political.
But you're right. Repubs should actually try to do something rather than whine about others doing something.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,029 posts)that it is indeed the Pope's "job" to urge the world to act on climate change "as a moral imperative." It will be interesting to see whether this encyclical is issued as "infallible" (many of them are not designated as such).
Infallibility is a guarantee that neither the pope teaching individually as the Churchs supreme pastor nor the pope teaching in communion with the whole college of bishops can mislead the faithful on an issue essential to salvation.
Encylicals remain very important teaching documents. No pope since 1870 has designated an encyclical as an exercise of papal infallibility, which requires three conditions: 1) the subject is a matter of faith or morals, 2) the pope must be teaching as supreme pastor, and 3) the pope must indicate that the teaching is infallible.
http://www.stanthonymessenger.org/AskAFranciscan/Question.aspx?Question=176
I know very little about Catholic theology, so I have no idea whether the Pope would consider the need to act on climate change to be a crucial issue "concerning faith or morals," but if he believes climate change is likely to cause great suffering and destruction, and if failing to act on it would violate God's directive to care for the earth, maybe he will go all infallible. I would, if I were the Pope. And wouldn't that put the GOPers in a pickle?
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)And I love it.
treestar
(82,383 posts)To repeat their opinions as they instruct?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)If you're not going to do that then STFU
The GOP
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I've known comatose paraplegics who could do what you do. I'm confident the Pope wouldn't strain himself to do whatever it is you do.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)you're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites at best, terrorists at worst!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)acknowledge that capitalism was God's plan for us mortals
he was not pleased
Matariki
(18,775 posts)or same-sex marriage.
Coventina
(27,227 posts)Inhofe has some nerve making such a statement when the new meme in Republican politics is to say, "I'm not a scientist....." and proceed to use that as an excuse to ignore climate change.
But now suddenly climate change IS your job?!?!?
I don't have words strong enough to express my contempt for these guys.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)With anyone who dares spread the idea that assuredly killing the biosphere for just a tad more pixels of fake money they will never use isn't honorable, desirable or what Jesus would do.
Shareholders of those corporations demand satisfaction against such affronts. Hordes of lobbyists descend upon Washington and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Enlightened candidates proclaim "Manifest destiny!" and "The drinks are on me!"