Amici,
At The Federalist,
Maureen Mullarky (great Irish name) has an article on the radical environmentalism of Pagan Pope
Francis, and any Catholic, or indeed Christian of whatever group, or
Jew, should read it because Maureen reveals the end game of Modernism
and all the ecological claptrap of the Bergoglian Church: The New Paganism.
First, some background:
Christianity versus Paganism
Christianity
Christianity is
a completely anthropomorphic religion in that God became Man to save Mankind
from its fallen nature. One enters into this salvation only by
physically partaking of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, through the
Covenantal Most Holy Eucharist (i.e. the Covenantal meal of the Seventh Covenant
as Passover was of the Fifth Covenant). Failure to do so means you do
not have the Life of Christ within you, as St. John explains
at length in the 6th chapter of his gospel. (He wrote his gospel last
of the gospels and after St. Paul's letters, and he clearly thought it
necessary to compose this 6th chapter stressing the Eucharistic source of
"being a new creation in Christ", as St. Paul so often phrases it.)
But then again, as the ancient Hebrew revelation itself made clear in the beginning,
God made Man in God's own "image" (it is the only time "image" is used
positively in Genesis, if I recall correctly). God didn't have a
physical human form, but He gave Man free will, intellect, rationality,
and the soul's immortality. Then, with the Incarnation, made a necessity by Adam
and Eve's Fall, God sanctified and elevated the human form by
Incarnating Himself in it. Because He took on Human nature, humans can
now via divine grace take on God's nature and indeed, literally be "new
creations in Christ".
- So this part of God's creation – the physical universe resulting from the Big Bang (as is now generally thought in physics) – is doubly blessed, both in its beginnings when God declared it good and made his Covenant with it (first couple of verses in Genesis Chapter 2) and now in God's Incarnation into it (New Testament). It belongs to God who created it, and to mankind whom God made within it and tasked with protecting it. We're here to govern it, "keep" it/maintain and cultivate it. Aside from loving and serving God, it's our foundational job in mortal life, and indeed, we love and serve God in our assigned acts of cultivating and "keeping it clean". And it is widely known that working outdoors, keeping a garden, long walks in the countryside, etc., all promote mental health for everyone. However, none of this means we ought to worship it.
Paganism
But
paganism is quite different. Firstly, it has no knowledge of a personal
God, whether the Unity of Jews and Muslims or the Most Holy Trinity:
"...holy Lord, Father almighty, eternal God: Who, together with Thine
only-begotten Son and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the
Oneness of single person, but in the Trinity one Substance...without
difference or separation...unity in Essence, and equality in Majesty." (from the Preface of the Most Holy Trinity)
Instead of all that, Paganism's deities are generated by nature, and exist
wholly within it. Secondly, in Paganism you don't care for or cultivate nature – you worship it because Paganism is about worshiping the life
force. It is our mistress, not our servant or ward. That's why stone phalluses were so often made and worshiped in
most cultures around the world, from Ancient Greece to modern-day Japan,
where one can see devotees praying to them. These images were of that
which was essential to generating new life.
Human beings by definition
have no special place in Paganism; indeed, the gods who made mankind were
themselves generated by the life force. Death, then, was no absolute cut
off from this world, but a portal back into it, eventually. Again, that's because we are merely an element to it. This was as
true of Druidism as it is today of Hinduism. "T'is all one," as
Shakespeare would say.
Now, with all that backgroun in mind, consider what Maureen Mullarky writes in her article:
Francis rails against the West’s “tyrannical anthropomorphism.” His accusation borrows from Boff’s many restatements of historian Lynn White’s influential charge published in Science in 1967. Lynn attributed “ecologic crisis” to the Christian/biblical tradition. He indicted Christianity as “the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen” because it teaches that only man is made in the image and likeness of God. (Boff scoffed at the teaching as “an androcentric archaism.”)
Francis anticipated this month’s campaign by anthropomorphizing nature. Creation has a “voice.” A suffering earth “cries”; it issues “an anguished plea” that “laments our mistreatment.” The “grandiose cosmic choir” sings reminders that “we are not disconnected from the rest of creatures, but joined in a splendid universal communion.”[However] Only conscious beings can commune with each other. Promises — such as God’s to Noah and Abraham — can only be made to persons. Francis’ call for “a covenant between human beings and the environment” attributes sentience to the environment.
AnP again:
The
entirety of Christianity, as with Judaism before it, is built on the
Covenants God made with certain people for the sake of, eventually, all
peoples. (Islam rejects, and damns, the Covenant system entirely.) But
Bergoglio and Modernism stand all that on its collective head and
crashes it completely for the sake of what is a narcissistic fad: "Oh,
look at me! I am environmentally conscious!" or a thanatos "death wish",
i.e. "We humans must go extinct in order to save the planet". (Christianity is at pains to assert the immortal worth of human beings; paganism isn't that interested.) Bergoglio would break ALL that and the entire Covenant system by insisting God makes
covenants with the environment, an insane notion that necessitates elevating
the environment into a conscious being. Whatever else that is, it is a rejection of Divine Revlation.
Clearly,
Jorge Mario Bergoglio cannot be considered to be pope in any sense
whatsoever with him not merely thinking along these lines, but promoting
them! He constitutes as much a danger to the Church as Biden (meaning
whoever is pulling his strings) does to the American republic or the WEF
does to Europe, etc.
Beware. And be warned.
An Préachán
Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him. (This verse delightfully indicates the natural world's true relation with God.)
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