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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

Churches Buying Global Warming

Hey folks,

I do not even know what to say about this. Really. You cannot believe in God, and Global Warming. You just simply can’t. OK. I’ll leave out the supernatural reason WHY God did this, but Genesis 6: 5-7

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

We were saved from total and utter destruction by ONE man. Noah.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD

You know the story. Noah built the Ark and mankind was saved from complete and utter destruction. God made a promise to Noah.

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8

Then God provided a sign to all mankind that we STILL see today.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

A Rainbow. 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?

But according to USA Today - Churches go 'green' for Palm Sunday By Jeff Martin, USA TODAY

Palm Sunday is going green.

This year, more than 2,130 congregations across the USA, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians, will use “eco-palms” that are harvested in a more environmentally friendly way, says Dean Current, program director at the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management at the University of Minnesota.

The number of churches using eco-palms on Palm Sunday — which, in the Christian faith, marks Jesus' triumphant return to Jerusalem before his death and resurrection — has grown from a pilot program of 5,000 in 2005 to the 600,000 eco-palms ordered for this year's March 16 celebration, Current says. He estimates that is about 1.5% of the 35 million to 40 million palms sold annually for Palm Sunday services in the USA but says he expects the growth to continue.

What makes the eco-palms different is the way that they are harvested, says RaeLynn Jones Loss, a research specialist at the University of Minnesota.

More than 50% of the palms are wasted by traditional methods, Jones Loss says. Harvesters in the eco-palm program are trained to be more selective. They cut only the best fronds, which results in only 5% to 10% waste.

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.

About 25% of the program's proceeds go back to the communities where they were harvested. They pay for such things as scholarships, she says.

“It's a matter of helping support these communities, getting them a fair amount of money for their wares and also using a sustainable resource,” says Chris Barnett of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Anchorage.

Like I keep telling you folks. MONEY

The eco-palms can cost more, depending on the type. A typical order of 200 eco-palms costs $47.50, Jones Loss says, compared with $21 to $23 for traditional palms, according to Catholic Supply of St. Louis.

Anyway. Look for the Chicken Little Crowd to jump all over this. “See, even the Religious people are excepting the fact Global Warming, uh, sorry, Climate Change is real. What is wrong with you?”

No one will ever, nor can ever, dispute that Climate Change is occurring. It occurs all the time. We have little to do with it. As for “What’s wrong with me?” I have the ability to THINK.
Peter