Pope Francis parades in ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’

Pope Francis parades in ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’

Remember THE Danish fairy tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” in which the emperor parades around wearing nothing but magical garments he believes to be visible until a small child points out that he is naked? Well, it seems that Pope Francis has stumbled upon the emperor’s old duds and has decided to take a stroll while wearing them. I’m referring to his recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, in which he promotes the mythology of man-made global warming using false assumptions and faulty logic that even a child can see through.

His cause-and-effect presentation of pseudo-facts regarding climate fluctuations is misguided at best, dishonest at worst and total lacking in substance.

Underlying his arguments is some perverse strain of vain humanism in which he attributes to man the power to direct climatic evolution on a planetary scale, indicating an arrogance and lack of humility, almost a lack of faith, in which he views God as incapable of managing his creation with the sanction and intervention of man. One has to ask: How was God able to run things before the appearance of man?

Leaving out annoying little facts from his dissertation, such as the hard data of global temperature readings, and instead basing his arguments solely on flawed computer models written by leftist liberal men with socialist political agendas, the pope greatly damages his credibility along with that of the Church. Much harm has already been done to the Church through the interaction of homosexual priests with adolescent and teenage boys, but that may pale in comparison to the injury inflicted by the Pope through his dishonest portrayal of the climate.

Joseph K. Waltenbaugh, New Castle, Pa.