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Despite the santorum splattered about, the Pontiff of the Church Universal and Triumphant [EDIT: This is actually referring to the Roman Catholic Church, not the Church Universal and Triumphant] is going to agree with the climate change consensus in an encyclical to be released on Thursday. Early leaks give some idea of the content.
Pope Francis is preparing to declare humans as primarily responsible for climate change, call for fossil fuels to be replaced by renewable energy and decry the culture of consumerism, a leaked draft of his much anticipated statement on the environment suggests.
The source for this somehow concerns Australians, but we will take any indication of infallibility where we can get it.
So the humble submitter has to wonder, does this mean that climate-change deniers are now to be considered heretics, rather than just Petro shills or anti-environmental conservative conspiracy theorists? It does add a entirely new dimension to the debate, and I hope that God will forgive your Conservative asses for screwing up Her creation in the quest for profit.
UPDATE - janrinok 18 Jun 12:36UTC
is it possible to update/append aristarchus' post "Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming" (https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/17/0317256), as follows:
Update: The encyclical can be read and downloaded here.
I am not affiliated with the submitter, aristarchus, or the pope. I have a slightly paranoid reason for asking for this update; it is my experience that, whenever politically important documents are published, the actual document often gets overshadowed by an enormous load of blog commentary, providing a bit of "damage control" and "spin". It is my fervent opinion that the readership of Soylentnews deserves to read the actual source documents. (It's only 82 pages long, in this case, anyway).
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Informative) by khallow on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:31PM
the Pontiff of the Church Universal and Triumphant
The Church Universal and Triumphant [wikipedia.org] is a Montana-headquartered fundamentalist Christian sect which I gather claims to be a spiritual successor of Christian Science founder, Mary Baker Eddy. They have nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Church. According to Wikipedia, the Roman Catholic Church some considerable time back popularized [wikipedia.org] the phrase "Church Triumphant" as referencing to the faithful in Heaven. The "Church Militant" refers to those who reside on Earth. So at best, Pope Francis is the pontiff of a significant portion of the Church Militant.
climate-change deniers [...] Petro shills [...] anti-environmental conservative conspiracy theorists [...] God will forgive your Conservative asses [...] screwing up Her creation [...] quest for profit
It's good that we're going to approach this all scientific-like, you commie, Luddite bastard.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday June 17 2015, @03:20PM
Yeah, this should be tagged as "seriously misleading summary". I am going to guess intentionally so.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NoMaster on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:19PM
I'm looking forward to the ability to moderate posts - not just comments - in a forthcoming version of rehash.
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...
(Score: 2) by NoMaster on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:34AM
Read the original submission [soylentnews.org]:
Your guess is correct.
Really, Eds, this sort of deliberate trolling belittles SoylentNews, and does nothing to promote intelligent discussion. As I said in a comment to a very similarly-styled post 6 months ago, "it's a pretty weak-sauce dumb non-story for SN - at best, it's trolling the theists; at worst, it's outright mocking them. Neither is a particularly mature attitude". That goes double when the poster tells you they're deliberately baiting the hook...
(No, I'm not a Catholic, Christian, or a theist. Not even an agnostic. I'm just not a militant anti-theist arsehole...)
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:22AM
I am an anti-theist, but not militant about it, and I am still highly against the wording of the post and especially the original post. The poster might not think he was deliberately trolling, but I can't see this as anything else.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Touché) by Appalbarry on Friday June 19 2015, @12:10AM
Really, Eds, this sort of deliberate trolling belittles SoylentNews
I for one genuinely appreciate a well trolled submission.
Or at least the oh so earnest people who argue with it.
(Score: 1) by Alyssey on Wednesday June 17 2015, @04:02PM
I thought it had to do with a bad joke done with the Emberverse series, who have serious issues with the C.U.T.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:51PM
It's good that we're going to approach this all scientific-like, you commie, Luddite bastard.
Love you too, khallow! By the Way, I thought the Prophet cult went out of business after the apocalypse didn't happen and Elizabeth Claire passed.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:58PM
Love you too, khallow! By the Way, I thought the Prophet cult went out of business after the apocalypse didn't happen and Elizabeth Claire passed.
The apocalypse business never ends. There's always a new date. For example, one can trace the roots of modern Seventh Day Adventists to a doomsayer from the early 19th century whose predictions (SPOILER ALERT) failed hard repeatedly.
(Score: 1) by darnkitten on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:36AM
Naw, there's still a few around, though they've spread out--even one or two families in my town, judging from the lit that gets donated to the library I run.