Trees: the Pope says they’re great. Isn’t he just fantastic.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_IKZ3raaS7GSg5CO-dlE4wVkoQc6QiX/view?usp=sharing
Trees: the Pope says they’re great. Isn’t he just fantastic.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_IKZ3raaS7GSg5CO-dlE4wVkoQc6QiX/view?usp=sharing
Platitude of the Day 
“Look! A squirrel!! Up a tree!!!”
Despicable.
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I wonder what news item I can talk about today from a religious perspective? I usually just look up what the Pope has been saying and hope that he has mentioned what I am interested in. Luckily for me he came up trumps again! What a man! It’s so great that he has supported the Laudato Project which is a Catholic led titchy bit of help towards the Great Green Wall in the Sahel (a great idea – look it up). But how will I look at this great environmental project from a religious perspective? Well, this could be tricky because it is really just an environmental issue that has nothing to do with religion at all. But, you know what, I think I can get away with what I ususally do and just mention that the Pope has said something in support of it. That should fool the Today editors. I bet they were hoping I would talk about the problems of religious groups in UK failing children over sex abuse but there’s no way I would go there!
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree…or my names not Joyce Kilmer.
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Surely ‘from a religious perspective’ should involve a little bit more than telling us what Papa Frankie said.
I was surprised our Catherine didn’t blame climate change on human sin – she was probably thinking it, though.
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Trees and sin conjure up images of Lady Chatterly’s Lover for me…not what TFTD is meant to do surely?
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The Pope and Pepinster forget the conundrum of Bishop Berkeley who wanted to know if a tree made a noise in a forest when it fell when there was no one around to see or hear it.
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‘So how’s this for a seamless link… Trees! (waffle a bit about the environment) We use trees for making furniture, for fuel, for paper…. AND (pure genius, this), the Romans made CROSSES out of them, and the Lord Jesus was crucified, on a WOODEN cross, and died to redeem us from our sins. There; you can’t get more of a faith perspective than that!’
Mornington Crescent. And her offering would have been quaintly amusing had it not represented a MASSIVE swerve around the only news item that any serious religious commentator could not avoid dealing with this morning. Shameful.
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There is a theory that one cause of deforestation is the number of trees that have been cut down in order to make splinters of the True Cross.
In the intervals of Catherine Pepinster’s incessant worship of Papa Frankie, does she ever consider how he comes to ‘know’ all this stuff about the environment? Jesus doesn’t tell him, that’s for sure. No, it’s hardworking scientists as usual, who spend their time gathering and analysing evidence, and submitting their tentative conclusions to fellow experts for criticism. That sort of intellectual rigour and independence isn’t exactly encouraged in the RCC. Nor is basic honesty and openness, as we have seen throughout the disgraceful child abuse scandal.
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I agree Pepinster is the worst kind of papal stooge but as far as her covering a worthies theme such as the recent report about child abuse in religion the BBC has already shown reluctance to make anything significant known and busied itself about the minutiae of sects like Jehovahs Witnesses. Talking to trees is the mark of ecological weirdos and it should stay so.
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I agree Pepinster is the worst kind of papal stooge but as far as her covering a worthies theme such as the recent report about child abuse in religion the BBC has already shown reluctance to make anything significant known and busied itself about the minutiae of sects like Jehovahs Witnesses. Talking to trees is the mark of ecological weirdos and it should stay so.
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