Is this a new Catholic Church? Wait, I don’t see kneelers.
At ‘Blog for Dallas Area Catholics’ Tantumblogo has no illusions about the origins and ends of the Global Warming offense.
Some of the very, very first laws the Bolsheviks put into effect upon taking power in the former Imperial Russia were laws not just allowing, but encouraging divorce, contraception, and abortion. Why in heavens would that be one of their earliest moves? What could they possibly have to gain from diabolical efforts? Control.
The left, most admittedly in its pure and distilled form of communism, but in all its forms, seeks to control people on a level never dreamed of by the most benighted despots of the past. They seek not just control over your political activities, or your economic life, or of your social involvements, but all these things plus much more besides. They seek to control your inner thoughts and your relationship with God. The left, as I have argued many times in the past, is ultimately at war with the Christian God and has been for hundreds of years.
How is religion most intimately and effectively communicated from one generation to the next? The family. How can the left ever pry us stubborn God-botherers away from our magic talks with God unless they destroy the family and stand up the state in its stead? And how can one destroy the family, anyway? Well……turning sex into a competitive sport and loosing all the checks and balances God provided on human reproductive behavior was, and remains, a great place to start. So you legalize divorce, fornication, contraception, and especially baby murder, and go from there. As we have seen in this country, a few decades of such legalization will lead society to the precipice of self-destruction. And even after the regime that foisted such evils on the people goes away, the evils remain for decades after. Witness Russia today, with still one of the world’s highest abortion rates, and general death-wishing nihilism driving incredibly high rates of alcoholism and drug addiction, producing one of the lowest life expectancies for men of any largely developed nation.
Communism is nothing if not relentless. They tried the direct method of competition with the more capitalist West and failed. So now they are trying manifold other, less obvious but more insidious methods, like cultural marxism and environmentalism. But these replacements are no different from their predecessor, and contain all the same assumptions and desires that the old Soviet state did – total control over the lives and thoughts of everyone on earth, the destruction of the family, the “death” of God. Cultural marxism and environmentalism are of course as tied up in the sexular pagan death cult as the most fire-breathing Bolshevist of Stalin’s days.
Which brings me to the main point – this recent highly publicized and very important “climate conference” or “conference on sustainable development” at the Vatican. Yes there have been highly unfortunate flirtations with the left wing socialists at the UN and in the environmental movement by the Vatican before, but never with such official approbation, and never with so much influence on official papal documents of doctrinal import. I say influence, because the Vatican itself widely reported that the meeting between Pope Francis and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, as well as the entirely one-sided conferences organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, were oriented towards providing input for the upcoming papal encyclical on “climate change” and sustainable development. As I noted in the link above, the conferences featured some of the most prominent pro-aborts and population control zealots in the world today. That pro-abort maximalists like Jeffrey Sachs (abortion on demand at public expense and without apology) were given a platform to speak – even if “only” on a subject intimately related to their population control obsessions, “climate change” and sustainable development – is hugely scandalous in its own rite. But to openly tie this platform with the upcoming encyclical is completely unprecedented.
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This ugly unity between the worldwide Left and the NewChurch, emerging at Benedict’s abdication, and clear since Francis walked out on the balcony; is impossible to ignore. It is not the place of the Christ’s Bride to collaborate with these actors and enable their murderous worldy goals and frauds. That is simply not Catholic. It’s the opposite.
What do we do with this encyclical then? What will it mean for our Church?