Archbishop Of Sydney - Breed! Breed Or Die! Ignore Global Warming - It's Just A Hoax!!

[hatrack]

THE Catholic Archbishop of Sydney has called on Australia to populate or perish and declared himself a climate change sceptic - a day after the Pope called on Catholics to change their way of life to deal with global warming.

"No Western country is producing enough babies to keep the population stable, no Western country," Cardinal George Pell said yesterday. "Ruthless commercial forces are telling young people that this is the way forward, this is the modern way and they remain totally silent of the difficulties and damage this does to marriage and family life."

Cardinal Pell said the church had a clear "moral obligation not to damage and destroy or ruthlessly use the environment at the expense of future generations". But he disputed pessimistic scientific opinion that human activity had fuelled catastrophic climate change.

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In a highly controversial Easter message two years ago, Cardinal Pell declared that Jesus had nothing to say about global warning, earning a rebuke from the leading Australian Anglican bishop and environment advocate, George Browning. Yesterday Cardinal Pell said: "I think the approach of all of us would be like Francis of Assisi: we admire God's handiwork in nature and through the miracles of modern technology we make it better. "The Holy Father has said he is not going to enter the scientific debate on particularities, especially cause and effect."

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/07/14/1215887540778.html

No, you certainly wouldn't want a debate about "cause and effect", especially here. Nosirreeee Bob!

[phantom power]

1. Damn.

Just.... damn.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. The Archbishop of Sydney is a big ol' racist.

The big clue is when he talks about the need for "Western" countries to produce more children. Because "Western" people are the only ones who count, you know. Don't want the "Western" people to be outnumbered.

[hatrack]

3. That's right - 'cuz we need more white people who look like Jesus did, and . . .

Oh.

Never mind!

[depakid]

4. Fortunately, Aussies are among the least religious peoples on the planet

[Nihil]

5. He might not have had anything to say about global warming ...

... but I'm pretty sure that Jesus said a few things about self-serving
hypocrites and pompous arseholes claiming to be speaking "for God" ...

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> Yesterday Cardinal Pell said: "I think the approach of all of us would be
> like Francis of Assisi: we admire God's handiwork in nature and through
> the miracles of modern technology we make it better.

First part correct, second part correct, third part bollocks.
Francis of Assisi was the nearest thing to an environmentalist saint that
there is. The appreciation of beauty in nature (in the entire universe for
that matter) is a worthy goal, whether or not you choose to attribute it
to God or not. The idea that modern technology has "miracles" is on pretty
dubious theological ground and the concept that Man can make "God's handiwork
in nature" somehow "better" using technology is borderline heresy ...
Burn him!
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