{"id":220,"date":"2019-09-01T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=220"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:58:39","slug":"why-is-an-anti-capitalist-holy-father-pope-francis-interfering-in-our-federal-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/01\/why-is-an-anti-capitalist-holy-father-pope-francis-interfering-in-our-federal-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is an \u201canti-capitalist\u201d Holy Father Pope (Francis) interfering in our federal elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why is an “anti-capitalist” Holy Father Pope (Francis) interfering in our federal elections?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bambi read the news from Montreal this evening in both\nlanguages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/nuns-pray-that-leaders-truly-tackle-climate-change-1.4574145<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

French:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2019\/09\/01\/des-religieuses-canadiennes-pressent-les-politiciens-a-agir-pour-le-climat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi had wished that our English-speaking and French-speaking Catholic nuns would have come together to denouncing child abuse cases by some priests around the world. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, they chose to go public for other reasons,\npromoting divestment from fossil fuels, the forthcoming UN climate meeting, and\nthe Paris Accord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How odd Bambi finds. In her mind, nuns usually pray\nand do good deeds from time to time. Not politics or economics usually (she is\nsaying this whilst also being concerned about the quality of our environment\nand the impact of changing\/warming climate conditions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only good part of their call to action was perhaps\nseeing them sharing some actions which they take for the sake of the environment.\nFor this, we do not need to look as far as congregations in Qu\u00e9bec or elsewhere\nin Canada. Across her street, Bambi can see her conscious neighborhood equipped\nwith solar systems and with energy-efficient ideas. This is likely the good influence\nof some genuine environmental local initiatives that she salutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi was made particularly curious by the last paragraph of the French article above (in which there is a video to the news from the TVA channel). She had the idea of searching the net about the pope. This is how she googled the website of the Communist party of Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (whose former leader, Mr. Andr\u00e9 Parizeau, is now running in the federal election with the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois). She discovered an interesting post about the communist ideology of the Pope signed by Mr. Parizeau himself (http:\/\/www.pcq.qc.ca\/Dossiers\/\/Autres\/Archives\/page_article.php?article_id=2625<\/a>), entitled \u201cEven the Pope calls for the fight against capitalism<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the text by Mr. Parizeau, we can read the following (translated) paragraph: \u201c\u2026 In a gesture that contrasts with all his predecessors, the new Pope Francis has outright called on the peoples of the world to mobilize and unite to fight against capitalism and to work for the establishment of a new world order, which is no longer based on the constant search for more profits by some, against others; but rather based on the search for the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to the article\/video in the Journal of Montreal, signed jointly by the \u201cAgence QMI et Agence France-Presse<\/em>\u201d, it is written: \u201c\u2026. Fran\u00e7ois salutes the young activists of the climate cause, saying that they deserve concrete action rather than “neglected commitments for partisan interests and convenience”. The pope added that all eyes should be on the UN climate summit scheduled for September 23, calling on governments to “significantly accelerate action” to contain global warming, in line with the Paris Agreement of 2015. “May God (…) give us the courage to do good without waiting for others to start, without waiting until it is too late,” he pleaded\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting all this. No clue what it means precisely.\nIn her mind, all this Paris Accord matter seems to be a globalist form of communism.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reminds her of an interesting article written by Dr. Bruce Pardy, a Professor of Law at Queen\u2019s University, in the Financial Post in May, 2018  (<\/em>https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/opinion\/let-the-paris-climate-deal-die-it-was-never-good-for-anything-anyway<\/a>). The article is worth reading as food for thought. Perhaps today more than ever. It is entitled: \u201cLet the Paris climate deal die. It was never good for anything, anyway. Opinion: Paris is a climate fairy tale. It has always been more about money and politics than the environmen<\/em>t\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without being an expert\nin environmental studies or economics, Bambi can appreciate the intelligent\npiece by Dr. Pardy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is sure the Holy\nFather is well-meaning, so are the nuns for sure. However, we must think with\nour rational brains and not our idealistic ideology. Communism has not worked.\nHistory has demonstrated it. Why is it still so appealing in 2019? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a conclusion to this\npost, Bambi would like to borrow Professor Pardy\u2019s own words: \u201cIf human action\nis not causing the climate to change, Paris is irrelevant. If it is, then Paris\nis an obstacle to actual solutions. If there is a crisis, it will be solved\nwhen someone develops a low-carbon energy source as useful and cheap as fossil\nfuels. A transition will then occur without government interventions and\ninternational declarations. Until then, Paris will fix nothing. It serves\ninterests that have little to do with atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse\ngases\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bambi read the news from Montreal this evening in both languages: English: https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/nuns-pray-that-leaders-truly-tackle-climate-change-1.4574145 French: https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2019\/09\/01\/des-religieuses-canadiennes-pressent-les-politiciens-a-agir-pour-le-climat Bambi had wished that our English-speaking and French-speaking Catholic nuns would have come together to denouncing child abuse cases by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}