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Pope Kisses Father Al Gore’s Ring.

Hey folks,

JUST this past March 9, 2007, I told you about this. Churches Buying Global Warming

"I do not even know what to say about this. Really. You cannot believe in God, and Global Warming. You just simply can’t."

I pointed out the Biblical reasons why, using the Word of God. Then asked you,

"Every time you look up and see a Rainbow, what you are actually looking at is this covenant between God and YOU. The promise he made to Noah, to NEVER completely destroy the Earth again. So if GOD will not do so. Do you REALLY think he will let us?"

Then I said this.

"Now if these churches have decided that they have to do their part to put off Global Warming. I am TRULY saddened. But I have a feeling, that it is more likely, they are doing it to help the communities they serve. They even hint to this in this article."

Well, today, I AM truly saddened. According to Reuters - Vatican lists "new sins," including pollution

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.

The guidance came at the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican's number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance, spoke of modern evils.

Asked what he believed were today's "new sins," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the greatest danger zone for the modern soul was the largely uncharted world of bioethics.

“(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce some violations of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments and genetic manipulation whose outcome is difficult to predict and control,” he said.

The Vatican opposes stem cell research that involves destruction of embryos and has warned against the prospect of human cloning.

Girotti, in an interview headlined “New Forms of Social Sin,” also listed “ecological” offences as modern evils.

In recent months, Pope Benedict has made several strong appeals for the protection of the environment, saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race.

Under Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, the Vatican has become progressively “green.”

It has installed photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.

Girotti, who is number two in the Vatican "Apostolic Penitentiary," which deals with matter of conscience, also listed drug trafficking and social and economic injustices as modern sins.

Notice the timing of this article? Read that again. “economic injustices,” “Global Warming,” “drug trafficking,” ETC. Think about it.

But Girotti also bemoaned that fewer and fewer Catholics go to confession at all.

Why should they?

He pointed to a study by Milan's Catholic University that showed that up to 60 percent of Catholic faithful in Italy stopped going to confession.

In the sacrament of Penance, Catholics confess their sins to a priest who absolves them in God's name.

But the same study by the Catholic University showed that 30 percent of Italian Catholics believed that there was no need for a priest to be God's intermediary and 20 percent felt uncomfortable talking about their sins to another person.

That is true. The Bible teaches there is only one. His name is Jesus, and He does not believe in Global Warming either.
Peter

Sources:
OPNTalk - Churches Buying Global Warming
Reuters- Vatican lists "new sins," including pollution