Why would anyone listen to this idiot in a funny hat about anything?
Why would anyone listen to this idiot in a funny hat about anything?
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.
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Because he's the leader of a specific Christian branch. It's unlikely that an atheist would listen to Pope Francis on the authority of his being the head of the Catholic Church. Unless you mean to suggest that you deny AGW, but were swayed when Pope Francis, a non-scientist, said you should accept and act on it?
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.
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"It's always reassuring to find you've made the right enemies." -- William J. Donovan
Nah. The pope needs to catch up... the new trend is AGW skepticism. Widespread and getting wider by the day.
That the climate is changing somewhat I don't dispute. That it is primarily man-caused I consider highly improbable. That it constitutes some kind of existential disaster I consider laughable nonsense. That there is anything substantive we can do about it is also laughable. I have scientific reasons for every point of contention as well, which include but are not limited to: known failures of the AGW proponents in data collection and climate modeling; evidence of outright fraud among same; the fallaciousness of the "hockey stick diagram"; ice cores showing prehistoric states of higher carbon in atmo and less ice were times when life flourished, and warming was driven by natural processes and not human industry (there was none); evidence that most of our warming/change is solar driven (as we're seeing it on other planets too) and thus beyond our control; etc etc.
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ISIS: Carthago Delenda Est
"I used to roll the dice; see the fear in my enemies' eyes... listen as the crowd would sing, 'now the old king is dead, Long Live the King.'.."
Other trends are:
- anti-vaccination
- evolution denial
- heavy drug use
- Islamic extremism
- Truther-ism
- Birther-ism
Which goes to show: uneducated people believe in (and do) a lot of stupid crap. It's good when the head of any faith does his/her part to address ignorance. Now, sure, atheists will probably jump up my ass at the irony of the head of religion addressing ignorance, but you can't win every battle.
That the climate is changing somewhat I don't dispute. That it is primarily man-caused I consider highly improbable. That it constitutes some kind of existential disaster I consider laughable nonsense. That there is anything substantive we can do about it is also laughable. I have scientific reasons for every point of contention as well, which include but are not limited to: known failures of the AGW proponents in data collection and climate modeling; evidence of outright fraud among same; the fallaciousness of the "hockey stick diagram"; ice cores showing prehistoric states of higher carbon in atmo and less ice were times when life flourished, and warming was driven by natural processes and not human industry (there was none); evidence that most of our warming/change is solar driven (as we're seeing it on other planets too) and thus beyond our control; etc etc.