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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: 2) by VortexCortex on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:50PM
To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her" - whereas in the Bible, God is *Always* referred to as "Him" or "His".
Well, you're plainly wrong. First off, the English language Bible is an interpretation. Etymologically, in English he, him, his, and man are gender neutral terms. "Man" meaning human, the other masculine form lost their masculine qualifiers while the female forms retained their gendered significance. Thus those translations of the Bible are not referring to God as masculine, excepting of course Jesus being male.
Secondly, the modern Bible was formed slowly over the ages from what was once a polytheistic belief. Let us consider The Holy Trinity (presupposing we're not Benedictine): If we suppose "The Father" is male, and "The Son" is a child, then "The Holy Ghost" is.... what? What would make the most sense here? Perhaps The Holy Ghost is a Female to complete the holy family unit. Indeed, many Bible scholars agree there was a female Goddess among the desert nomads' pantheon. She was later absorbed into the The Holy Trinity.
Finally, Wisdom is personified as Female in the Bible. [google.com] But who is the Spirit of Wisdom? Isaiah 11:22: And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom... Yes, that would be The Holy Spirit AKA The Holy Ghost, which is the Spirit of Wisdom which is personified as female, having many female qualities such as nurturing, teaching, and greatly impassioned.
Alas, it seems to be the curse of atheists to know more of a religion than the majority of its believers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday June 18 2015, @06:24AM
"Alas, it seems to be the curse of atheists to know more of a religion than the majority of its believers."
(Speaking anecdotally, as I have no hard facts to back this up.)
The majority of people I know who self-describe as atheist or agnostic, did not start out so. Nearly everyone I know in this category came to their beliefs (myself included) from actually studying the Bible, as apposed to 'biblical study groups' such as my religious wife attends who study only selected verses and simply self-censor anything unpleasant or contradictory by ignoring or not 'studying' them. Examples being Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and others which they conveniently ignore. These books I found horrifying, and the idea that you could pick and choose what to follow if it is all 'Gods word' confounded me. Not that you could follow all of it, as there are so many contradictions. (Love your neighbor, but kill him if he works on the wrong day or gets a haircut....)
Many (most?) of us became atheists because of actually studying the Bible.
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