Ecological Sin
Jan. 19th, 2020 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThe Pope has proposed a category of ecological sin.
I note that amidst all the dithering nobody seems to have recalled that (according to this tradition) God made the Earth and told humans to take care of it, which makes destroying God's work a very credible sin indeed. I mean, how can man name the animals if some of them have died out? They're supposed to be found and named. Surely thwarting that is a sin.
I note that amidst all the dithering nobody seems to have recalled that (according to this tradition) God made the Earth and told humans to take care of it, which makes destroying God's work a very credible sin indeed. I mean, how can man name the animals if some of them have died out? They're supposed to be found and named. Surely thwarting that is a sin.
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Date: 2020-01-20 05:54 am (UTC)This... may not be one of them.
If he could get the Catholics working on tikkun olam, that's a HUGE chunk of the population of Europe, Africa, and South America, and a sizeable chunk here and a significant part of the upper and lower Pacific Rim... add that to what China and India are up to these days, and it might make up for the amount of sacrelige Dipshiticus Oathbreakerus is committing... (Sacrelige for Catholics, Jews, western Pagans, and Buddhists alike... it's not *quite* universal, but add those populations up and you've got a goodly plurality...)
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Date: 2020-01-20 05:55 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 06:16 am (UTC)I'm still trying to figure out how Jesus managed to get His candidate on the throne for once.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 11:14 am (UTC)"Look Luci, I'll let your guy be the President with no interference, if my guy can be Pope."
"Alright J.C, you're on!" [to himself] "Sucker thinks the pope still has real power nowadays!"
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 11:17 am (UTC)You should write it up that way.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 11:20 am (UTC)*J.C grins, hiding a 'Sanders/Warren 2020' card up his sleeve*
(to himself) "Fool may win fiddle competitions but we're playing poker, and I'm looking for a full house."
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 01:12 pm (UTC)USA makes me want to sit the teenage country down and hope it can mature enough before screwing everything else up.
The not so United Kingdom makes me, Anglophile American Jew with British Jewish ancestry on one side, want to cry watching my grandparents arguing and I had divorced grandparents on both sides. :-(
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 01:18 pm (UTC)Still..fear not... Uther Pendragon is still around.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 07:22 pm (UTC)Yeah well, he's abusing the snooze button. >_< If he doesn't get his ass up, there's not going to be a future Britain left to be king of.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-20 08:11 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2020-01-21 06:14 pm (UTC)Francis, patron saint of animals and ecology
Date: 2020-01-20 01:04 pm (UTC)It's the first thing that occurred to me when I read the initial press release for the assumed name for His Holiness, and first of THAT name for the Papacy. To call himself Francis, means that his priorities are much different than any of the previous office holders. He is the first Jesuit Pope as well, and he was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem cut short when the surrounding countries started the Yom Kippur War on our holiest day. He has Argentinian community college level certificates in chemistry and philosophy.
And I'm Jewish, just grew up with a lot of Italian Catholics very fond of Saint Francis, and a Greek Orthodox priest mentor for my mom who said Jesuits were the only Roman Catholics who understood logic as well as the Greeks or the Jews. ;-)
Re: Francis, patron saint of animals and ecology
Date: 2020-01-20 07:27 pm (UTC)As a Pagan, Saint Francis is one of the saints I actually like. He's also one of the few with a genuinely widespread modern following: in the form of garden statuary. If I ever see one that I really like and can afford, I'll buy it.
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Date: 2020-01-20 05:28 pm (UTC)