Pope takes sides in a science debate

The Pope has every right to speak about it - and protecting one of God's creations is pretty integral to his faith, no?

What a silly thread.
 
christiefan915 said:
Has he spoken against AGW?
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yes......Job 38
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?
 
Thing1 said:
The Pope has every right to speak about it - and protecting one of God's creations is pretty integral to his faith, no? What a silly thread.
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Who said he had no right to speak, HOSS?

Just as you, the High Oracle of Situational Selectivity are free to bless the plebeian masses with your somber pronouncements, all who pretend to represent a higher power are free to opine.

And are equally free to be mocked.
 
Irish said:
I agree with you on the ISIS part. However, I don't have a problem with a religious figure promoting environmental issues. I think they can be morally equated.
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But atmospheric SO2 is an environmental issue whereas CO2 hasn't proven to be. AGW is a *theory*. The link between SO2 and acid rain is a fact.

No one is going to 'destroy the planet' with CO2. The Pope essentially weighed in on a science debate.
 
“All of us have a responsibility, all of us, small or large, a moral responsibility. We have to take it seriously. We can’t joke about it,” he said. “Each person has their own. Even politicians have their own.”
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I agree. We have a personal responsibility to make changes. Does that mean we must be dictated what to do, or should we make these choices?
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1
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Francis has to admit that God gave us free will, free will to make decisions far more important than climate change, which, if he read the Bible, he also has to admit has been happening since the beginning of time.
Francis is a good guy and has his heart in the right place. He is a man who was put in place by mere humans to pope Catholicism. Many adore and admire him more than the creator, which is, imo, the very idolatry so frowned upon in the word. Let God be his judge and let Francis say what he thinks he must. I don't have a pope, I only have one God.
 
Darth Omar said:
But atmospheric SO2 is an environmental issue whereas CO2 hasn't proven to be. AGW is a *theory*. The link between SO2 and acid rain is a fact.

No one is going to 'destroy the planet' with CO2. The Pope essentially weighed in on a science debate.
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Isn't CO2 a greenhouse gas?
 
Irish said:
Isn't CO2 a greenhouse gas?
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Yup, it's not nearly efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere as water vapor but it's an important constituent. SO2 poisons the water because it's forms sulfuric acid in the presence of water vapor.

Big difference.
 
Isn't methane a greenhouse gas?

Has Al Gore given up steak?

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Darth Omar said:
“All of us have a responsibility, all of us, small or large, a moral responsibility. We have to take it seriously. We can’t joke about it,” he said. “Each person has their own. Even politicians have their own.”

Ahead of the Paris summit in 2015, Francis wrote a major encyclical, or papal letter, on the care of the environment which backed the gradual elimination of fossil fuels to stem global warming.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...a82b&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Shouldn't the Pope be preaching about Christianity? Or if he wants to delve into politics, radical Islam has committed genocide on Christians in parts of the Middle East. Why not comment on that?

The AGW debate is fundamentally about climate science and not politics or morality. I presume Francis' background is in theology and not atmospheric physics.

His is just an opinion---and it's no better than mine.
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Pope Francis was a practicing chemist before entering seminary, and I agree with his interpretation of the Biblically established duty of Christians to be good stewards of the Earth.. but his encyclical is based on bad science, in my opinion.

We are all called to be good stewards of the Earth, but we are not all called to be stewards in the ways suggested by the Pope.
 
It's hilarious when godless liberals try to cloak their hoaxes in Papal vestments by pretending they are pious.

They don't seem to do the same when Francis says marriage is only between a man and a woman and abortion is murder.
 
Darth Omar said:
“All of us have a responsibility, all of us, small or large, a moral responsibility. We have to take it seriously. We can’t joke about it,” he said. “Each person has their own. Even politicians have their own.”

Ahead of the Paris summit in 2015, Francis wrote a major encyclical, or papal letter, on the care of the environment which backed the gradual elimination of fossil fuels to stem global warming.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...a82b&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Shouldn't the Pope be preaching about Christianity? Or if he wants to delve into politics, radical Islam has committed genocide on Christians in parts of the Middle East. Why not comment on that?

The AGW debate is fundamentally about climate science and not politics or morality. I presume Francis' background is in theology and not atmospheric physics.

His is just an opinion---and it's no better than mine.
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So climate alarmism really is a religion.
 
God bless America said:
It's tragic when hypocrites think they can trick our Father in Heaven by deciding that the parts of Scripture they find pleasing are the valid parts and the others can be safely ignored.

It's even sadder when they apply their own situational morality to their use of the Scriptures. If a Scripture is convenient for them one day, they cite it. If it's not the next day, they ignore it, or pretend it's irrelevant.
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Tell us about virgin birth, men walking on water, raising the dead and a boat with all the animals in the world on it.
 
God bless America said:
They are in error who preach death and pain in the name of God.

Do you condemn Muslims who've executed and tortured millions, or is your faux outrage reserved for Christians whose political leanings offend you?

Rhetorical question. We both know the answer.
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"The Bible is the word of God"
"How can you be sure it's the word of God?"
"Because the Bible tells us so"
"Why believe the Bible?
"The Bible is infallible"
"How do you know it's infallible?"...

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