Freepers hate the Pope pt. II: Environmentalism

I hear that, like just about everyone who isn't a Freeper, the Pope believes in global warming. I'm not sure about the manmade part, but he also believes that good Catholics care about the environment.

Here's the anodyne quote that set the Freepers off on a righteous rageapalooza:

the powerful of the Earth that God will call them to judgment one day, and there it will be revealed if they really tried to provide for him in every person, and if they did what they could to preserve the environment so that it could produce this food."

Sacajaweau knows what this quote is!

full blown communist

HomerBohn just hates anything after the 1950s, and the Church is no excpetion

God will judge the ‘popes’ subsequent to Vatican II and rather harshly I would think.

This current heretic is probably the worst of the bunch, but that’s not saying anything as they’re all complicit in creating a new religion based on secular humanism.

The Catholic Church are secular humanists?!

winner3000 questions the Biblical authority for the Pope's pronouncement:

Which commandment was that again?

Nervous Tick agrees - there ain't nothing in the bible about caring for the poor or Earth!

God will judge them on whether they fed the poor and cared for the Earth

Maybe we should send the po-po a Bible.

I’m not sure he *has* one.

Nervous Tick follows up by noting the Pope didn't give specifics:

No drilling for oil? No burning fossil fuel of any kind? No dumping at sea? No eating meat? No GMO? No air travel? All of those things can be, AND HAVE BEEN, proscribed for us unwashed masses by our betters in the environmental grievance industry and at the UN... to which chorus the good pope is also lustily lending his own voice.

Who draws the line, and where? You? The Pope? Obama? Kofi Anan? Who?

MrB thinks they key is to act environmentalist, but not care about it.

Satan always perverts the good that God proclaims.
We are to take dominion and make the earth fruitful,
but we are not to worship it,
nor do we derive any righteousness by how much we care.

No one out-crazies editor-surveyor! This heretical craziness is promptly ignored, alas.

Nothing in God’s word tells us to care for the Earth.

We are specifically instructed to subdue the Earth.

Feeding the poor is another story, and this is where the catholic church has failed miserably, by spending Yeshua’s money on massive buildings with satanic phalli puncuuating their roofs, and man worshiping art treasures covering the walls.

CA Conservative mixes judging God by man's standards with a bit of strawman fun:

Since God "destroyed" the earth once already with water, and the Bible says He will do it again with fire, I don't think that you can make a case that preserving the earth is God's highest priority. Now, we are to be good stewards of what He has given us, but that is a far cry from destroying our economies and impoverishing billions in the name of "protecting the earth" as the left would like to do...

Finny explains how when the government cares for the poor, it causes evil:

Charity is a moral act. It requires voluntary sacrifice on the part of the giver. The receiver is morally indebted, knowing that someone else chose to go without for his own in order to help the receiver to go with. The giver is exercising mercy and kindness.

When government usurps the duty of charity, it removes "voluntary" and degree of sacrifice, mercy, and kindness, and converts it to an AMORAL act, zero reference to morality. AMORALITY and all its evil results. Givers become slaves, and receivers become entitled dependents supported in sloth and promiscuity without material consequence.

Makes you yearn for the moral heights of the private charity-run Victorian England, eh?

Harmless Teddy Bear noted the Pope only exhorted those with means:

So the poor, who do the most damage to the earth, get off?

justa-hairyape revels in dickish know-nothingism.

And the more CO2, the more food, and the greater the diversity of life.

By not mentioning ISIS in every sentence, Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America infers the Pope loves ISIS.

Being nice to mother Earth trumps stopping ISIS and their brutal crusade of raping and torturing Christians?

bramps isn't big on humility:

Feels good to know more than a Pope.

Nervous Tick:

“The Pope is a Socialist and is coming after our money.”

In other words... is the pope catholic? Yep.