Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Pope Francis's New Encyclical is wholly Pro-Life

I haven't finished reading it yet but I am far enough through that I wanted to start blogging about it.  I would encourage you to read it yourself and not to rely on what you hear in the media or even on what I write about it.  Parts of it are difficult to unstand so have a dictionary handy.

By far my favite part is paragraphs 63 through 100, the biblical reasoning behind what the Pope is saying.  It is so beautiful and yet reminds us that we are stewards of Gods creation and that God loves all He created.  We are also reminded that we are responsible for all our actions.  Mindless consumerism that hurts someone half way around the world is still our responsibility.

The Pope lays out the case for global warming but the part I like the best is that he says even we are not the total cause for this shift we are still obligated to all we can mitigate the problem.  The polar ice caps are melting and so are the glaciers, we can't deny that.  This will effect people around the world and so we are obligated to do what we can and we can not just sit back and hope that technology will save us.

Even if a technical solution is found we still can't keep going with our materialistic way of living.  We can't insist that people half way around the world work as slaves to give us cheap clothing and cat food.  God obligates us to care for those people as much as we do those in our won country.  That to be Pro-Life means to love and care for all people.

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