{"id":3337,"date":"2015-06-17T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:31:20","slug":"saint-joe-biden-is-a-laudato-sii-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joe Biden is a ‘Laudato Sii’ Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the good side, yes?<\/p><\/div>\n

The world is so confusing and there’s always a new twist.\u00a0 It’s hard to discern truth from lies in a fog of liberal spin and manipulation.\u00a0 There’s one reality that always betrays the truth though.\u00a0 Liberals play for the same team.<\/p>\n

This is because liberals play to win.\u00a0 Like Our Lord told the Pharisees about a house divided, there’s no disorder on the bad side.<\/p>\n

For God’s sake, look at the Pope’s team<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Vice President Biden issued a sweeping endorsement Tuesday of Pope Francis a day after publication of the Vatican\u2019s draft encyclical on climate change, saying of the pontiff, \u201cWe have a good one now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden, the first White House official to comment on the leaked draft, credited the pope for helping to move public opinion on a problem that both the church and the Obama administration have sought to frame as a moral issue.<\/p>\n

The remarks came during a speech that was Biden\u2019s first public appearance since the funeral services for his son, Beau Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a consensus growing,\u201d Biden said, after quoting from media\u00a0coverage of the leaked encyclical, the official version of which is due to be issued Thursday. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t only have a moral component to it. It has a security component to it, as well as an economic component.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House had declined Monday to respond to the leaked draft, in which the Vatican accepts the scientific consensus linking human activity to global warming and calls on the world\u2019s wealthy nations to reduce consumption and cut back on the use of fossil fuels. The draft document chastises climate-change deniers and says the \u201cpoor and the Earth are shouting\u201d for action on addressing the causes of warming.<\/p>\n

Biden, addressing a White House-sponsored forum on clean-energy investment<\/a>, noted the recent activism on climate change by a wide range of religious communities, \u201cfrom leading evangelicals \u2026 to the pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a practicing Catholic. I always joke \u2014 they say, \u2018Why am I a practicing Catholic?\u2019 I say, \u2018Because of the nuns and Jesuits,\u2019 \u201d Biden said. Then he added, referring to the church\u2019s first Jesuit pope: \u201cWe have a good one now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden went on to read excerpts from an article about the leaked draft from The Washington Post, which in a verbal slip, he referred to as \u201cThe Washington Pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPost. Pope, heh,\u201d he said, correcting the error. \u00a0\u201cThey sometimes think they\u2019re \u2018pope.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Echoing several of the draft encyclical\u2019s themes, Biden warned that the world was rapidly approaching a \u201cpoint of no return\u201d for preventing severe impacts from climate change, and he berated members of Congress and climate-change skeptics for blocking progress on reducing greenhouse gases. At Tuesday\u2019s forum, the White House announced several initiatives designed to encourage private investment in technology to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not only the morally right thing to do, it\u2019s also a smart economic play,\u201d said Biden, describing climate change as the \u201csingle-most important\u201d challenge facing the administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s morally right to lean on businesses or to pour more confiscated money into green slush funds. The Pope is in league with thugs.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has spent his entire life ignoring popes and smearing Catholics.\u00a0 Now he’s a pope wonk, ‘echoing themes’ and outlining ‘components’ of encyclicals!<\/p>\n

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