{"id":4773,"date":"2015-08-12T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2015-08-13T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:04:43","slug":"new-sins-in-francischurch-just-keep-accumulating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"New Sins In FrancisChurch Just Keep Accumulating"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope Francis has made his universally broad new environmental Catholic doctrine mandatory.\u00a0 Obey or you’re not a true Christian!\u00a0 You have no choice in the matter because I’m the Pope of course.<\/p>\n

How do we specifically comply with this new teaching from God?\u00a0 There are millions of media outlets, government funded institutions, and ‘Catholic’ establishments who will provide the necessary action items<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For two years I taught social studies at an inner-city high school; for six years I ran a Catholic Worker shelter for homeless families. Then, almost 20 years ago, I became a full-time animal advocate, confident that such labor is integral to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

As one might expect, I received plaudits from fellow Catholics for my anti-poverty and educational work but less support for my animal protection work. Most Catholics I\u2019ve encountered seem to think of such do-gooding as fundamentally removed from religious imperatives.<\/p>\n

Yet Pope Francis begs to differ.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving our vocation to be protectors of God\u2019s handiwork,\u201d Francis wrote in his latest encyclical, \u201cis essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Get out your FrancisChurch notebook.\u00a0 Full-time paid animal advocacy fits the bill as being ‘essential to a life of virtue!’<\/p>\n

On the day Francis released the encyclical, he tweeted, \u201cIt is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. #LaudatoSi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaving aside the modern method of transmission, this statement is not actually remarkable. It\u2019s a quotation from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

But what does it mean that we should not cause animals to suffer or die needlessly? Surely this admonition demands more of us than that we not personally injure and kill animals. I\u2019m convinced that we are also obligated as Catholics to avoid paying others to kill or harm animals, absent some exceedingly compelling justification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is a chicken sandwich exceedingly compelling?\u00a0 I’m not sure but I definitely feel guilty.\u00a0 I was hungry but I wasn’t exceedingly compelled<\/em> I must admit.\u00a0 I wish I could ask Pope Francis but he probably just eats beans.<\/p>\n

Put another way, \u201cpurchasing is always a moral \u2014 and not simply economic \u2014 act.\u201d That line also comes from the encyclical, in a paragraph in which Francis applauds consumer boycotts focused on pushing corporations to engage in more ethical practices.<\/p>\n

Thinking about consumer choices in the context of animal rights, consider that by far the most needless suffering comes at the hands of the meat industry, which kills about 9 billion land animals annually. These creatures are treated in ways that would warrant cruelty-to-animals charges were dogs or cats similarly abused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you know why purchasing is always a moral choice in FrancisGospel?\u00a0 It’s because he’s an anti-capitalist and his hackles rise when anyone is able to do something with money.\u00a0 Making money a moral choice gives him jurisdiction over every tiny decision people make.\u00a0 It robs those foolish enough to believe him of their God-given freedom.<\/p>\n

Communists think you should get what they give you when they want you to have it and they think they should own everything you’ve got.\u00a0 Pope Francis Communists (Liberation Theologists) are the same, but they pretend it’s Christian morality and not just pride, envy, and thievery.<\/p>\n

Why does FrancisChurch seem to inevitably lead to putting left wing environmentalist pressure on every tangible industry in the world?\u00a0 Miners can’t mine; Farmers can’t farm.\u00a0 Ranchers can’t slaughter cattle.\u00a0 We can’t eat the meat they sell us.\u00a0 Nobody can have any money or property that someone else doesn’t, regardless of their choices or rights.\u00a0 And if you have enough to do something really productive, then you’re really in trouble.<\/p>\n

You’re money belongs to you, not to Pope Francis and his false preaching on moral choices.\u00a0 Buying poison or a mafia hit is a bad use of money, not a steak, or a gun, or an acre of land. We used to understand this was foolishness and tyranny.\u00a0 Why must we now pretend it’s our Faith?<\/p>\n

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