Pope: God will judge you on whether you cared for Earth
""VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned the rich and powerful on Tuesday that God will judge them on whether they fed the poor and cared for the Earth, his latest exhortation on the environment ahead of his eagerly-awaited encyclical on climate change and its effects on the world's most vulnerable.
Francis delivered the warning during a Mass for the Vatican's Caritas Internationalis charity.
In his homily, Francis said the planet has enough food to feed the world but "it seems that there is a lack of willingness to share it with everyone."
"We must do what we can so that everyone has something to eat. But we must also remind the powerful of the Earth that God will call them to judgment one day," he said. "And there it will be revealed if they really tried to provide for him in every person, and if they did what they could to preserve the environment so that it could produce this food."
No papal document in recent times has produced as much anticipation or anxiety as Francis' encyclical, which is expected next month. Environmentalists are thrilled that Francis is lending his moral authority to provide an ethical foundation for action to stem climate change. Conservatives, including many Christians, have criticized Francis for wading into the politically charged climate debate.
On Tuesday, one of Francis' key advisers, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, said he was stunned by the complaints he had heard during a trip to the United States over a papal document that hasn't even been published yet. He accused those fueling it of an ideology "that is very strongly linked to a vision of capitalism that doesn't want to renounce damaging the environment for the sake of profits."
Francis has said global warming is "mostly" man-made and that humanity has a moral duty to stop it.""
The saddest part of this all is the conservative christians who say yes it is happening because God is doing it and we have nothing to repent from. They forget that not only was it predicted but that it says something is added to make the sun feel hotter. Well our own fossil fuel use is what is driving it up there.God punishes by letting us reap what we sow. When it finally becomes so obvious that no one can no longer deny it they are all going to be the ones cursing God because of the heat because they did not do it no no it was all God. These two are key to what I mean: Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. 9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory. Revelation 11:18"And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." Notice that the angel adds something to the sun. And in the second verse He comes back to destroy those that destroy the earth. God more often then not uses the consequences of our own actions to punish us. It is the consequences of fossil fuel use and not making sure that it is getting into the environment that is causing this.
