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How much of the Pope's recent letter do you agree with, and how much do you disagree with, and why?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46831points) June 18th, 2015

I really, really like this Pope, and here is his letter.
I wonder what millions of Catholics think when he turns around and says that something that’s been WRONG for all of these thousands of years, is really OK. (If that doesn’t tell us religion is man made, then I guess nothing will!)

Anyway, I mostly agree with most of it, but I question #2:

2. Technology will not save us.

“We must be grateful for the praiseworthy efforts being made by scientists and engineers dedicated to finding solutions to man-made problems,” Francis writes. But “the degree of human intervention,” he continues, “is actually making our earth less rich and beautiful, ever more limited and grey.”

It was human intervention that caused the problem. If human intervention creates alternate energy sources, like the windmills, then that is allowing us to cut down on the fossil fuels that make our earth ”...less rich….and grey.” And exactly how do we STOP human intervention without going back to the stone age?

“We seem to think that we can substitute an irreplaceable and irretrievable beauty with some which we have created ourselves,” Francis concludes. “It’s based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth’s goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry beyond every limit.”

Who ever suggested there was an “infinite supply of the earth’s goods?” Common sense will tell you there isn’t! Unless that is something spouted by fundamentalists…“God wouldn’t let us run out of the supplies HE put there for us!”

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