Isn’t there something in the Bible about not worshiping golden calves?
US ‘abandoning its moral responsibility’ with exit from bedrock climate treaty, Catholic groups say
Catholic groups quickly assailed the Trump administration’s move to withdraw from dozens of international accords and organizations, including the bedrock United Nations treaty that for three decades has convened global efforts to address climate change.
In an executive order issued Jan. 7, President Donald Trump directed the U.S. to withdraw as soon as possible from 66 U.N. entities and related organizations that his administration deemed “contrary to the interests of the United States.” Chief among them was the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1992 treaty that facilitates international climate negotiations and under which nations adopted the Paris Agreement to rein in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, released primarily from burning fossil fuels. (snip)
“These decisions will have painful and direct repercussions on the lives of vulnerable populations and God’s creation already suffering from a changing climate,” Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement to the National Catholic Reporter (snip)
In a joint statement, Catholic Climate Covenant — the Washington-based group that with 20 national Catholic partners guides church responses to climate change — and the North American chapter of the Laudato Si’ Movement said that in withdrawing from international climate and environmental institutions, the U.S. “undermines our responsibility to listen to both the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.”
“Climate change, ecological degradation, environmental disasters, forced migration, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss do not recognize national borders,” the statement said. “Turning away from international cooperation on these issues does not make them disappear; it only leaves the most vulnerable and marginalized people, along with future generations, more exposed to harm.”
Yeah, whatever. Tell all your folks in these groups to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their loves carbon neutral.
In an interview, Sr. Barbara Bozak, an American sister who represents the Congregations of St. Joseph at the U.N., said the latest U.S. withdrawals were not surprising but go against long-standing commitments made by the United States — commitments she said affirmed multilateralism, the U.N. Charter and “peaceful responses to difficult situations.”
At the same time, said Bozak, who attended COP30 in Brazil, the absence of an official U.S. presence at the conference was in some ways a relief because of past U.S. intransigence to multiple climate treaties and agreements, including the Trump administration’s opposition to climate-related initiatives.
Did she walk there, bike, take a sailing ship? Or, a fossil fueled flight?
Sr. Carol De Angelo, director of the Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation for the Sisters of Charity of New York and an NGO liaison for her congregation at the U.N., said she is upset by the Trump administration’s moves to withdraw from U.N. treaties and leave U.N. programs, saying that it “goes against [global] coalition and consensus building.”
I’m pretty sure Jesus went against the consensus in Israel. And that God is a jealous god, who gets upset when other gods are put ahead of Him.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, which in its missionary work in 25 countries sees up close the life-threatening impacts of intensifying droughts and rising sea levels, called it an “isolationist move” whereby the U.S. “is abandoning its moral responsibility as a leading global power and as the world’s largest historical contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.”
The Bible also says no work on Sunday and no eating shellfish or pork. Faces should be covered when sick
Plus the penalty for abortion is less than 1 oz of silver
Christianists like non church going Teach like to pick out factoids from the Bible to buttress their political beliefs.
As far as this practicing, traditional Catholic is concerned, the prophets of Global Warming/Climate Change/Pick-a-Catastrophe are the biggest liars since Ananias and Sapphira, and deserve no better than they got. And for the same reason. Most, if not all of these “agencies” exist for the enrichment of their members, not climate-related disaster relief. The UN leadership has admitted that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in simply a scheme to transfer money from wealthy nations, mainly the United States, to poorer ones, with much, no doubt, going to cover “administrative costs”. They probably used the Clinton’s Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) as a model.
As far as this practicing, traditional Catholic is concerned, the prophets of Global Warming/Climate Change/Pick-a-Catastrophe are the biggest liars since Ananias and Sapphira, and deserve no better than they got. And for the same reason. Most, if not all of these “agencies” exist for the enrichment of their members, not climate-related disaster relief. The UN leadership has admitted that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in simply a scheme to transfer money from wealthy nations, mainly the United States, to poorer ones, with much, no doubt, going to cover “administrative costs”. They probably used the Clinton’s Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) as a model.
Master Diver
Is that a PAdI certification ?
William asks: “Isn’t there something in the Bible about not worshiping golden calves?”
How about Orange Calves?
The Earth is warming, a result of the CO2 added to the atmosphere by our burning of fossil fuels.
Is William’s argument that religions should not comment on real world issues? Abortion, LGBTQ, capital punishment, poverty, civil rights, global warming, elections, public education, nuclear non-proliferation, pollution, racial discrimination…
It’s obvious that trump is an old, deteriorating megalomaniac making bad decision after bad decision… America needs to act before he starts WWIII.
You mean the earth is allegedly warming due to CO2. Fixed it for you
Did you mean “Earth”. Fixed it for you.
Allegedly warming?
Did you mean “warming allegedly due to CO2”? Fixed it for you.
Grammar IS tough!!!
But yes, the Earth is warming, and the cause is most likely CO2 added by us!! Feel better?
Even if their Sydney Sweeney’s nicely tanned calves?
Or my buddy, Sophie Cunningham (6’1″ forward Mizzou and Indiana Fever)
Sydney left, Sophie right.
https://www.threads.com/@mgupta108/post/DM7-zd5pOZG/media
They were together at a function, and the frank and “athletic” Sophie saw Sydney’s ample busom and said, “Hmmm, It looks like one of us forgot to bring our tits”.
“Catholic Groups” and “Moral Authority”, HA! Good one!