Dominic Lawson writes in the Daily Mail:
Pope Francis’s new encyclical is in stark contrast to the style of his predecessor. While Pope Benedict’s works were in Latin, entirely spiritual in tone, and written by the man himself (a great scholar), his Argentine successor has produced something impossible to render in a classical language.
In fitting with its theme — saving the planet from man’s depredations — it is, for much of its great length, indistinguishable from any number of United Nations environmental briefings. In fact it is acknowledged to be the work of a series of pontifical committees.
To save you the trouble of ploughing through it, I offer a new take on the Lord’s Prayer, designed to encapsulate the Holy Father’s message:
Our Gaia, Who art in danger,
Sustainable be thy name,
Thy renewable energy resources come,
Thy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s will be done
On Earth as it is in the upper atmosphere
Give us this day our daily organic ciabatta
Forgive us our carbon emissions
Though we can’t forgive those multinationals who emit against us
Lead us not into excessive plane travel
Deliver us from genetically modified crops
For thine is the moral high ground
The onshore wind farms and the subsidies
For as long as the taxes can be raised. Amen.
H/t The GWPF
Fantastic. Sad that we even believe in a “god”
Mark says “Sad that we even believe in a god”
I am glad that you do for so do I. I do not understand being “sad” but your mileage obviously varies.
Spiritual belief is a mental illness. I have a theory it’s from eating grains and sugar. “Gut brain connection” 🙂 . Someone between seeing ghosts and schizophrenia.
I just love those windmills. Someone needs to draw an extreme warmist being crucified on one.
mark says “Spiritual belief is a mental illness.”
So that explains your sadness. I am very happy with my spiritual beliefs. Without it, I would be merely a machine like this computer I am using right now. It has no spiritual beliefs.
“I just love those windmills. Someone needs to draw an extreme warmist being crucified on one.”
Done! But I forget the link to the picture. It isn’t clear by inspection whether the person being crucified is a warmist.
I would note that all of the previous Popes have ceased to
exhale CO2 except this one.
Yet this one says it is not a good thing.
What’s Up With That???
As a Christian I have read a little about Islam. My default positionis that all Muslims believe what their prophet wrote and all support Islamic law and support of Jihad is common. Muslims, like Obama, tend to blame all Christians for the Catholic response to the Islamic invasion of Spain etc. We are probably both wrong but as the comments here indicate, non Christians often blame all Christians for the acts of the Pope. And they tend to asign to all of us the doctrine of Rome.
Any statement by the Pope not based on sound interpretation of scripture is an offense to true believers. That includes AGW, evolution, big bang and aliens. But like our Surpreme Court power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Pope’s position on AGW is as tortured as the Supreme’s on Obamacare.
+ A Bunch.
or in other words…
“Please God make this world intolerably warm so I can be correct.”
Shouldn’t it read:
…
Forgive us not our carbon emissions
As we forgive those other nations who emit against us
…
Jeez, guys, could you please stop waffling on about religion, and instead say something about this brilliant cartoon?
…about a man on his knees praying?” There. Fixed it fer ya.
It is a brilliant cartoon.
What is “natural” (the tree stumps) sacrificed to what the elite pray the wind-thingies will bring. The only one left is on his knees.
In prayer or subjugation? Time will tell.
The Lord’s Prayer is so called because Jesus himself created it, as is well described in the New Testament.
Perhaps (we do not know) He will be unhappy at anyone corrupting it in any way, whether for “humour” or not.
There is something else in the Bible.
It says, “..Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
I know what the Mona Lisa was smirking about. And it’s not what you think!
1) Free speech.
You have a right to it. Why squander it on actions and words that axiomatically hurt the sensibilities of others, particularly for amusement? Seems predacious to me.
2) Free speech
Josh didn’t posture his religious adherent similar to a Muslim. Likely as a result of fear, so this free speech is free in that the consequences of his use of it is, at worst, some people may feel saddened.
If he insulted a Muslim in prayer, he may pay for his free speech with his life.
So… was this free speech? neh…it was scaredy-cat lame free speech.
3) Free speech
Is important to people who’s speech is so toxic that the principle of free speech is necessary to protect them. The concept of free speech isn’t needed if everyone agrees with what is said.
4) Free speech
As a valued principle does not protect one from proportionate ridicule in response. Everyone is entitled to free speech. Everyone should expect it.
I happen to agree that the windmill is a 21st century object of veneration, like a cross. However, nothing in the green movement can compare with the sermon on the mount, which in may ways has served as the foundation to western philosophy and culture, worthy of our respect.
A crucifix is a depiction of a cross with an executed corpse on it, whereas a cross is.. simply a cross. FYI
This debate boils down to a simple equation. The cartoon + Free speech is good when it prompts us to ponder = We are pondering = Good free speech.
I suppose “pondering” is the greatest human virtue for which we can abandon good manners, civility, the fragile emotions of many, and taste. So let us ponder since it so worthwhile. Hmmmm Pondering pondering…Here is something to ponder about: a hysterical woman with no principles, and no self restraint, viciously and sadistically enjoying the pain of other people to alleviate the pain of a daddy complex, and the absence of male potency. Since pondering is the ultimate human action…ponder that caricature.
“Why squander it on actions and words that axiomatically hurt the sensibilities of others…”
Free speech that takes into account “the sensibilities of others” (which are entirely subjective) isn’t free speech. It isn’t even speech. It’s silence.
Fortunately, most Catholics have a sense of humor, or so I believe. 🙂
“So… was this free speech? neh…it was scaredy-cat lame free speech.”
Um, so anything not written at peril of life or limb is “scaredy-cat lame free speech”? Like Paul Westhaver ‘s comment?
BTW, I don’t recall the author boasting of being particularly brave or heroic or anything. Did I miss something?
“Free speech is important to people who’s speech is so toxic that the principle of free speech is necessary to protect them.”
It’s also important to people trying “to speak truth to power”. Kind of like our host here at WUWT.
“The concept of free speech isn’t needed if everyone agrees with what is said.”
Indeed. I’ll bet there wasn’t a lot of free speech in Jonestown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Fortunately, most Catholics aren’t brainwashed cultists, or so I believe.
“A crucifix is a depiction of a cross with an executed corpse on it, whereas a cross is.. simply a cross. FYI”
Words of wisdom. I googled “photo of church with cross” and found a number of “simply crosses”
coincidentally co-located with churches. 🙂
I doubt that green warriors really love windfarms. It’s just one of those necessary evils required to keep their politicians and cronies well fed. It pays the bills (on everyone else’s dime) Flying to climate conferences, is another necessary evil for green warriors.
If they had their preference, there would simply be less other people. They want the freeway to themselves, hence the persistence of mass transit dreams (for others of course)..
Sorry, it is funny whether you believe in god or not.
The Pope, President Obama, and “the majority of the American people” who supposedly still believe carbon is a pollutant and not the most important plant food on the planet, (1 in 4 Americans do not believe in global warming), continue to confuse naturally occurring climate change with human caused pollution. While some amount of pollution is inevitable and we should all do what we can to eliminate as much as possible, climate is, and will be for the foreseeable future, controlled by that big bright thing in the sky and our position going around it. The Pope, on the other hand, given the Catholic Churches’ somewhat ungracious history regarding the treatment of scientists, (Galileo comes readily to mind) would not be on my first list of references for atmospheric science authorities. Perhaps he would do well to remember Mark 12:17
I thought that Lawson was a “climate denier”.
Shouldn’t he therefore be excluded from access to the media.
And Professor David Nutt is a “drug denier”.
And Nigel Farage is an “EU denier”.
All the deniers need to be removed from public discourse.
And then we can begin the real debate.
In which we all agree with each other’s vapid politically correct repetition of unquestioning untruths as explained each day by the officially sanctioned BBC.
In the new Kafkaesque Britain with it’s 1200 page labyrinthine tax guide and it’s hand-out for rich solar park owners. Where we ban all cheap fun, and occasionally flood a small portion of the country by intentionally suspending maintenance of a drainage system for 20 years.
Well for those who are not drowned in paperwork, or water, then drown your sorrows with the officially sanctioned drugs – alcohol and fags.
Or have a ride on an officially sanctioned canoe in the officially sanctioned Olympic White Water theme park, powered by several megawatts of officially subsidized wind power.
In a country with a 1.5 trillion debt and a new growth sector in pretend employment.
Where you pretend to be employed whilst declaring zero income for the year in order to receive tax credit and housing benefit etc.
Welcome to new bullshit Britain, where alternative opinions are not required.
This is Dominic Lawson, not Lord (Nigel) Lawson. I think Dominic is Nigel’s son.
The Lording it over us Prayer?
I’m glad you worked GMOs into it. The anti-GMO crowd are modern day eco-Luddites, with unapologetic hostility against true scientific progress. Their anger is fueled by pseudo-scientific innuendo and heavy confirmation bias toward poor studies, which are often fully refuted or strongly contradicted by more robust studies they ignore.
Yet another version of who said what, when. Haven’t we (the world) had enough of this stuff?
Hippie horse manure, I agree! (: Obviously the psychotic side effects of Cannabis are permanent.
Sooooo…it turns out the Hippies were a secret Jesuit plot to bring down successful, open, free Protestant countries.