And It Always Has Been
One thing that brings me hope is when I read about an
ignorant, old coot reaching the very top of his profession. That suggests there is still the possibility
I might one day head up the Department of Transportation. No one provides me with more hope than Pope
Francis.
I don't know how much Pope Francis knows about religion in
general and Catholicism specifically.
Most of his proclamations that make widespread news concern climate
change and Mankind's other sins against the planet. He's preaching to the choir - the main stream
media - when he talks about manmade global warming and the sins of capitalism.
In his message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of
Creation, Pope Francis stated, "God gave us a bountiful garden, but we
have turned it into a polluted wasteland of debris, desolation and
filth." I didn't know Pope Francis
knew so much about the Playboy Mansion.
If there ever was a divine, bountiful garden since the
Garden of Eden, it surely would have existed in pre-colonial America. A very sparsely populated land with plenty of
freshwater, woodlands and fertile soil, America before European colonization
must have been a "bountiful garden" Pope Francis spoke of. Well, the bountiful garden nearly starved the
Pilgrims to death. Had it not been for
the native Indian, Squanto, who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, the
Pilgrims' colony could have failed. One
has to wonder why God hadn't provided the rows of corn ready-to-eat when the
Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower.
Even if Man did not exist, Earth would not be a garden of
plenty for the animals. Wildebeests
would still have to cross rivers having hungry crocodiles in their migration to
find sufficient grasses. Tribes of
monkeys would still declare war on one another for that single fig tree. A pack of wild dogs would fight a clan of
hyenas that fought a pride of lions for a territory that had only enough
herbivores to sustain one species of carnivore.
An undeveloped Garden of Eden planet is only a pipe dream in the minds
of lunatics like Al Gore and Pope Francis.
Actually, the only resource I can think of that God made
firsthand in overflowing abundance are carbon-bearing fuels - coal, oil, and
natural gas. It takes Man's ingenuity
and resourcefulness to put these carbon-bearing natural resources to work in
creating better lifestyles for everyone, but liberals can't stand that. Carbon fuels liberate people and liberals
want to control people.
Pope Francis said, "Let us repent of the harm we are
doing our common home". As one way
to repent, Pope Francis suggested avoiding the use of plastic and paper. So, to repent your sins you might consider
avoiding the use of toilet paper for a month.
It probably won't save the planet, but I will bet you'll have a deeper
appreciation that some capitalistic entrepreneur came up with the idea of
turning trees into charmin' rolls.
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