{"id":2134,"date":"2015-05-05T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2015-05-05T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:15:52","slug":"francis-effect-al-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=2134","title":{"rendered":"Francis Effect: Al Gore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m startled and thrilled to the marrow of my bones by the clarity of the Pope’s moral force.<\/p><\/div>\n

At Climate Depot, Marc Morano brings up<\/a> the tragic and relentless figure of Al Gore, yet another frightening admirer of the Vicar of Christ today.<\/p>\n

Al Gore announced on April 29, 2015 that\u00a0Pope Francis\u2019s global warming advocacy<\/a> could turn the former Vice President into a Catholic. Gore was speaking during the\u00a0Dean\u2019s Speaker Series<\/a> at the University of California Berkeley.<\/p>\n

Partial transcript of Gore\u2019s remarks<\/strong>: \u201d I think Pope Francis is quite an inspiring figure really. A phenomena. I\u2019ve been startled with the clarity of the moral force that he embodies. He kind of raises in a new context the old question: \u201cIs the Pope Catholic?\u201d (laughter)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a joke by the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They say every joke has some truth to it.\u00a0 This one has too much for laughs.\u00a0 Let’s unpack.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis is inspiring:<\/strong> He is stirring my spirit, affecting me spiritually.<\/p>\n

He is a phenomena:<\/strong> He has a supernatural quality which can’t be named or explained through science.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been startled with the clarity of the moral force that he embodies.”:<\/strong> This is excellent liberal-speak.\u00a0 On it’s face it is meaningless babble but it is stated for it’s intended effects.<\/p>\n

Like St. Paul on his horse my high liberal intellect was struck and shocked somehow by Pope Francis.\u00a0 We know that the Church is not only a source of moral laws, but a force<\/em> which we have always attacked, and nothing more than a succession of popes wielding influence.\u00a0 Pope Francis embodies that moral force since he is now the Church itself<\/em>, only this time the force is clear and reasonable not murky and confused, and everyone can follow it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell I\u2019ve said publicly in the last year, I was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition, I could become a Catholic because of this Pope. He is that inspiring to me. And I know the vast majority of my Catholic friends are just thrilled to the marrow of their bones that he is providing\u00a0this kind of spiritual leadership.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Francis embodies such a startling, thrilling NewChurch that even Al Gore is ready to join up. If we can get him, imagine what kinds of converts we can dredge up!\u00a0 Keep watching those numbers.<\/p>\n

Al Gore is no more a Catholic than he was a Baptist.\u00a0 They don’t need him either, but he’d make a great bishop these days.<\/p>\n

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At Climate Depot, Marc Morano brings up the tragic and relentless figure of Al Gore, yet another frightening admirer of the Vicar of Christ today. Al Gore announced on April 29, 2015 that\u00a0Pope Francis\u2019s global warming advocacy could turn the former Vice President into a Catholic. Gore was speaking during the\u00a0Dean\u2019s Speaker Series at the …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,277,276,251,19],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-gore","tag-catholic-convert","tag-climate","tag-global-warming","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}