{"id":979,"date":"2016-01-28T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/leonardo-dicaprio-and-pope-francis.html"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:43:00","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-and-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/leonardo-dicaprio-and-pope-francis.html","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio and Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So Mr. DiCaprio, who even caused the liberal PM of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to tell him to tone it down<\/a>, received a warm welcome from Pope Francis<\/a>.\u00a0 Now popes greet people.\u00a0 That\u2019s no problem.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t expect Pope Francis to kick Leo in the shin and knock him down over points where they might disagree. <\/p>\n

But I found this little snippet interesting, especially in light of Pope Francis\u2019s rather open embrace of the modern MMGW movement:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a child I didn\u2019t quite understand what it all meant, but through my child\u2019s eyes it represented a planet, the utopia we had been given, the overpopulation<\/strong><\/em>, excesses, and the third panel we see a blackened sky that represents so much to me of what\u2019s going in the environment.\u201d (emphasis mine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See that?\u00a0 Overpopulation.\u00a0 This has been a pet of the new liberalism for some generations.\u00a0 There are just too damn many [other] people in the world.\u00a0 Now, with\u00a0MMGW (that\u2019s Man Made Global Warming to us), there is a new reason to whittle down those pesky numbers. \u00a0Of course the question remains how do we eliminate the numbers?\u00a0 How do we check population growth so it doesn\u2019t do something like bring a civilization and its culture\u00a0to its knees<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Pope Francis has clearly not accepted that part of the MMGW furor.\u00a0 But in a way that seems to be the modern Catholic approach, he accepts almost every other aspect of it.\u00a0 That seems to be the way the Church is going now.\u00a0 Accept almost every idea and every premise of the new Leftist and secular world view\u2026except where dogma or doctrine can\u2019t be changed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So evolution is spot on right in every way\u2026except God made it happen.\u00a0 And most of the Bible, it turns out, was likely just fairy tales and legends created by ancient writers\u2026except Jesus really was born and did rise from the dead.\u00a0 And almost anything you hear about homosexuality from Dr. Drew is, in fact, correct\u2026but you still can\u2019t have actual gay sex.\u00a0 And women\u2019s equality, if not superiority, to men is pretty accurate\u2026but only men can still be priests.\u00a0 So we have this, where the evils of humanity (especially the Capitalist West) have brought the world to the brink of annihilation, and everything must immediately be done in line with liberal, socialist based solutions\u2026but the number of actual people in the world doesn\u2019t have anything to do with it.<\/p>\n

How long the Church\u00a0can maintain this balance remains to be seen.\u00a0 Since some of these things are predicated on ideas and views that are diametrically opposed to orthodox Christian doctrine, it will be interesting.\u00a0 But for now I fear the Church will only be able to set things aside which should ring bells and set off whistles of warning, all\u00a0in the hopes of being accepted on all of the other points by this new world order.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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