Quote:ECSNorway wrote:True. But if a leader of a major religious denomination says that global warming is real and action should be taken, people would take notice. Even evangelicals.Quote:nemonowan wrote:Actually, no.
The fun part is different:
The Pope of the Catholic Church is widely considered a "respected authority figure" by billions of people, catholic or not, because of his office. That is a fact, and encouraging it has been the policy of the Church for centuries already.
Many of these politicians who now complain about the Pope are actually catholic themselves, and thus have accepted him as the ULTIMATE authority on earth. Other ones have hailed him too because he shares their position on subjects like abortion and homosexuality.
Most of the Theocrazy wing among the GOP are not Catholic at all, they're Protestants. Lutherans, Methodists, Calvinists, Baptists, you name it.The idea of the Pope speaking directly for God is, to their minds, not merely wrong, but blasphemous and heretical. There's been some rapproachment amongst the various denominations in the past few decades but there are still a lot of churches, especially in the US southeast where a lot of these guys come from, that still teach that the Pope is literally the mouthpiece of Satan.
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