On Earth Day, pope says nature
will not forgive our trespasses
Reuters,
by
Philip Pullella
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
4/22/2020 3:12:39 PM
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for protection of the environment on Wednesday’s 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, saying the coronavirus pandemic had shown that some challenges had to be met with a global response. Francis praised the environmental movement, saying it was necessary for young people to “take to the streets to teach us what is obvious, that is, that there will be no future for us if we destroy the environment that sustains us”.(Snip)Recounting a Spanish proverb that God always forgives, man sometimes forgives but nature never forgives, Francis said: “If we have deteriorated the Earth, the response will be very ugly.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jean123 4/22/2020 3:16:46 PM (No. 387952)
People in glass houses... The pope doth protest too much, methinks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pilot222 4/22/2020 3:19:04 PM (No. 387954)
So God forgives anyone ,anytime but nature will not forgive. This idiot communist nut case is why people are leaving the Catholic Church
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/22/2020 3:24:46 PM (No. 387962)
Please in future name a pope with common sense and at least average intelligence. Otherwise, just leave the office vacant.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snapper451 4/22/2020 3:29:16 PM (No. 387968)
God will not forgive this Pope for his communist beliefs. Enough said about this immoral Pope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/22/2020 3:32:24 PM (No. 387971)
Jeez, where did they ever find this “Pope?”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
synchronicity 4/22/2020 3:35:33 PM (No. 387977)
Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln's comment on receiving a warm beverage that was either coffee or tea, he couldn't tell by taste: If this is the Pope, bring me a heretic. If this a heretic, bring me the Pope.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/22/2020 3:36:56 PM (No. 387980)
Has he not noticed how nature, i.e., animals, air and water, are reverting to their natural state? Canals in Venice are so clear now porpoises are returning to it. Sheep in Scotland are filling in the now vacant streets. You can actually see Los Angeles now that smog is gone. This sad excuse of a pope has it completely backwards. Nature will always win in the end.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 4/22/2020 3:42:30 PM (No. 387985)
As a catholic, I’m extremely disappointed that this propagandist/socialist is our Pope. Totally undeserving. Doing great damage to our faith.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/22/2020 3:43:47 PM (No. 387986)
SO Pope Frankie, DO the Pedo Priests you have protected SIN when they molest children or is it just something they do?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
baxter1 4/22/2020 3:55:16 PM (No. 387998)
No doubt standing in front of a Pachamama idol. He needs to go.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/22/2020 4:00:41 PM (No. 388004)
Pope Libtard the First is a first class nut and an embarrassment
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 4/22/2020 4:01:42 PM (No. 388006)
Slippery slope to Paganism... careful, Frank. Nothing in the physical dimension is eternal. And the environment is not our Judge.
Didn't your upbringing include (in some language or another) the adage, "To err is human, to forgive is divine."? Forgiveness is not natural. That's a little piece of the foundation of the teachings of the faith you have been chosen to lead. Don't lose it, or the rest of that foundation may start to crumble.
If that process hasn't already begun, that is...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/22/2020 4:15:50 PM (No. 388019)
"Nature" will still be chugging along the way it always does, long after the last human dies off and the bricks of the vatican revert to the clay and sand from which they were made.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/22/2020 4:21:49 PM (No. 388023)
isn't there something in Genesis about subduing the earth and the creatures upon it?
Does the Pope have a bible? Jimmy Swaggert will send him a free one...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
M Stuart 4/22/2020 4:47:44 PM (No. 388039)
Why do followers of Jesus support this "Father"? He has turned many people away from the catholic religion, and my hope is that they don't throw out Jesus along with his doctrine of communism, green gaia worship, servitude.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/22/2020 4:54:27 PM (No. 388045)
Hey Pope, read the King James Bible for once... turn to Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/22/2020 4:59:45 PM (No. 388049)
Arrogant man thinks that HE determines the future of earth, when in reality, it is earth that consumes everything man can ever make or do, as if it were a giant composter. Even the Sphinx and the Pyramids were eroding in the wind and buried in sand to be forgotten forever. What it can't deteriorate it topples or buries. The earth holds the record as the greatest homicidal murderer ever.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ladycatnip 4/22/2020 5:03:44 PM (No. 388054)
I believe this pope is creating stronger more conservative Catholics who know the truth, and will not back down from it. Pope Francis does not define my faith, the Mass or the Eucharist - he is no different than a president I disagree with. I do pray for him every day, but thankful for good priests and Bishops who watch out for their flock. Some day the Lord will separate the tares from the wheat - and the Vatican is full of tares - in the meantime I love going to Mass (at least when the doors were open before the pandemic).
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
droopydog 4/22/2020 5:11:28 PM (No. 388061)
Wasn't Earth Day conceived of by that live-sentence murderer, who just went to hell? Isn't there a saint of something that the Pope could be celebrating instead?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/22/2020 5:50:36 PM (No. 388090)
Won't someone please relieve the world of this deranged idiot. Where is the previous Pope?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Harlowe 4/22/2020 6:22:11 PM (No. 388110)
God’s creation was perfect (Genesis 1:31). Adam and Eve’s sin impacted mankind and nature; they would have to toil the earth to survive. Because of man’s sin, God destroyed mankind through The Great Flood; only Noah and his family were saved, along with the animals God instructed Noah to bring aboard the ark. God controls the universe—including nature.
Without question, the magnitude of sin permeating the world is horrific. Rather than the pope calling for young people to take to the streets demanding protection of the environment, perhaps calling for young people to take to the streets and demand the powers-that-be of the entertainment industry put an end to the destructive, desensitizing garbage being presented as “entertainment” and return to wholesome motion pictures, television programming, and music would be a better priority. Even more importantly, call young people to return to churches and turn their lives around; put an end to abortions, alcohol, drugs, pornography, free sex; return to morality--put God back into lives—put reverence for God back into the world.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
zuker5 4/22/2020 6:22:19 PM (No. 388111)
Deifying the earth again, eh? I guess that one true God thing wasn’t that important after all.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
clipped wings 4/22/2020 6:26:51 PM (No. 388115)
Only God can forgive sins. If this pope hasn't recognized that fact, he should join his predecessor in a monastery and shut up.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/22/2020 6:28:49 PM (No. 388117)
Shut up and pray!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2020 7:11:50 PM (No. 388151)
"Nature".....does this guy even believe in God
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 4/22/2020 9:02:27 PM (No. 388217)
This waste of protoplasm been visiting with Mother Gaia again????
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2020 9:13:28 PM (No. 388227)
stopping italics.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/22/2020 10:00:07 PM (No. 388263)
The unbiblical pope (they all are) is perhaps unaware that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Il Papa wouldn't is even if written on a stone tablet.
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Given the history of priests molesting boys, I would zip it. Your church destroyed their childhood.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/23/2020 1:50:25 AM (No. 388353)
From commie to Gaia Earth Goddess worship, what wonders Satan works.on credulous fools.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LaValette 4/23/2020 2:10:24 AM (No. 388362)
Of course Nature will not forgive. Neither will it bear a grudge or feel happy or sad because Nature is not a personal entity like the Christian God. This Pope is like many Christians who today have one foot in Creator worship and one in creation worship.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
LaVallette 4/23/2020 7:27:25 AM (No. 388482)
Can anyone point out in a rational manner what in what is reported that the Pope said in that Paragraph is wrong or even debatable. It s so obvious it is a "motherhood statement". Foul up the environment, the laws and balance of nature and it has a has a bad habit of kicking back very hard. The biggest problem facing the world and WHICH WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT is the pollution of our environment, our waterways in particular.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Harlowe 4/23/2020 12:13:55 PM (No. 388849)
#35- FTA: “...saying it was necessary for young people to “take to the streets to teach us...” Inciting to riot.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/23/2020 1:23:40 PM (No. 388977)
I've always thought of violating the laws of nature like travelling too fast on wet pavement with bald tires. Yes. You will pay if you do stuff like that. AIDs is a good example of an optional plague.
But a pan-dem-ic ( you know, panic with dems in it) as a result of driving cars? I don't find that in the Bible anywhere.
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