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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, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday June 17 2015, @03:49PM
To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her"
Interesting... God is all powerful but puny little humans get to boss him around and tell him he can't be trans if he wills it. I find this a common social pattern to declare their God as all powerful and then turn around and tie him down and limit him always coincidentally matching the limiters own beliefs. If your god is all powerful, why can you limit him to such narrow tiny weak little ranges? On the other hand, if the proposed god is not all powerful and is completely under the control and limitations and utter domination of some contemporary rich old men, why not ignore the wimp, and if you're ignoring the old men too, well...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_of_God_in_Christianity [wikipedia.org]
I find it interesting that the more I research this the more likely God is a she or an it. The type that thinks the bible was originally written in modern american english is 100% certain their god is a he, but original texts seem to disagree.
When you factor in the legendary misogyny of later ancient, middle, and modern cultures, any evidence at all of their god not being a total 100% pure bro is staggering and would imply the truth is likely pretty far the other way. Given an extreme filter, if the output of the filter looks kinda girly, the input must look rather extreme, like... maybe a woman?
Lets just be honest here based on practical human behavior. Most dudes are pretty mellow on average, nut cases and roid rage aside, etc. If you really want to see a human going all "old testament" on someone or something, you are far better off finding a (angry) woman. Its probably an evolutionary adaptation for being small wimpy and often pregnant, once you get one fired up theres not much to do but get out of the blast radius, like an angry tasmanian devil... or like a momma bear protecting her cubs. If the old testament god did the bro equivalent of getting drunk and punching a dude in the face once and then making up and becoming besties again, like once, just because of all that beer, then I'd say thats evidence of stereotypical male behavior. But no the old testament fire and brimstone stuff reads like only a scorned woman on the warpath could act. You talked to another chick, I don't care if she was your waitress, you get a plague of locusts... I mean seriously, you're still not talking to me for three days because I left the toilet seat up? That's total female behavior, gonna scorch the earth no matter how long it takes and how bad it looks. Women, not men, behave like old testament god. I don't think it a stretch to claim that might imply old testament god is a girl.
(Score: 5, Funny) by isostatic on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:03PM
The type that thinks the bible was originally written in modern american english is 100% certain their god is a he, but original texts seem to disagree.
I thought that the bible was written by Adam and George Washington as they sailed their ark with dinosaurs on 4000 years ago at the dawn of the American protectorship of the planet?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:45PM
Thats just what the illuminati want you to think.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:19PM
Blasphemy! Xenu had a part too...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:27PM
I was under the impression that Jehovah was a local tribal war god who was later adopted by the Israelites. I should have bookmarked my source on that, because now (of course) I can't find it...