Mr Ratzinger’s Zinger
Well, well, well. Another pronouncement from on high. It appears that climate change, according to the Vatican, is being over hyped by those doom spewing scientists and environmentalists. The exaggeration and hyperbole is not to be believed. Everything is under control. All that scare mongering about melting ice caps and unprecedented disasters are dogmatic opinions and distortion of the facts. The world is really fine. We’ll set you straight in the new year when the Vatican hosts its own climate change conference.
Hmmm. Let me see. Scare mongering? Now who could have a lock on that? Remember the Jews? The Vatican looked the other way during the holocaust, letting those Nazis paste yellow stars on six million, Jesus killing Juden. And what the Inquisition? Hell anyone? What about purgatory, birth control, repentance, damnation of your immortal soul? Who is scare mongering? What about the expressions “Fear of God”, “Vengence is Mine”?
The Vatican has a inglorious history. From its wars against Protestants, the Crusades, witch hunts, its Inquisition, persecution of scientists, its quite a list which I would say gives the Catholic Church the lock on what is scare mongering and what is not. It takes one to know one.
The Catholic Church burned Giordano Bruno at the stake for studying science and having erroneous opinions about the Catholic Church. Copernicus waited until his deathbed before publishing his Earthshaking treatise on the orbits of the Earth around the sun out of fear of the Church. The Church blacklisted that one. And what about Galileo? The fear of the stake made him recant. But under his breath he still had the courage to say “And yet it does move!”. A blind, old, brilliant scientist in fear during the last days of his life.
And now we have a pontiff again pontificating. If not that, what else I suppose? In a way I should be grateful. With a club like this, one with a history of so many miscues, mistakes and misadventures, I should happy that God’s rottweiler is not trumpeting an end to our climate changing ways. If he had issued a statement that would call for us to do something that would curb the melting of the icecaps, sea level rises and environmental extinctions, I would think it truly would be time to worry.
No Mr Ratzinger, stay the course. You and your Church with your pronouncements directly from God are what I would expect. More of the same. And after the disasters to our north and to the poor of the world, you will have so many more souls to minister to. Yup, another Zinger from the ol’ Ratzinger.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:34 am
This is an organization that operates on faith and is very regularly at odds with science. Why is this so shocking to you?
January 30th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Micheal Crichton wrote a fictional book on the environment and climate change. I believe it is called Disclosure. Definitely worth reading. Put a whole new slant on things.