This essay was by my brother in intellectual arms Jaap Hanekamp and Yours Truly. It appears at the Clintel site, whose motto is “There is no climate emergency”.
You will be doing me a great service if you pass on the link to the Clintel site so that others may see the truth of this motto. Here is a direct link to the PDF.
Here is the editor’s introduction to the essay.
By uncritically embracing climate catastrophism, Pope Francis, perhaps unwittingly and most certainly unwillingly, rejects the God he clearly tries to serve wholeheartedly. That is the main conclusion of the essay Pope Francis’ Climate Crusade or the erosion of faith in God, a tale of two encyclicals, written by Jaap C. Hanekamp and William M. Briggs and published by Clintel.
Pope Francis outlined his views on climate change in two encyclicals, Laudato Si’ (2015) and Laudate Deum (2023). Concisely, the Pope fears that the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point because of climate change. In fact, the Pope announced in his encyclicals that there is a “global climate crisis.”
In the essay Pope Francis’ Climate Crusade or the erosion of faith in God chemist and theologian Jaap C. Hanekamp and statistician and meteorologist William M. Briggs reflect on both encyclicals, though they do not assess the scientific information on climate change as such. Instead, they examine the Pope’s use and understanding of models, and delve deeper into the overarching philosophy that sustains both encyclicals. They conclude that the Pope, carelessly in their view, embraces scientism, and not science, which inadvertently weakens his position, and those that follow his scientistic prescriptions.
Scientism is the ideology that science alone is deemed capable of elucidating and resolving all genuine human problems, and that all human affairs can be reduced to science. Accordingly, scientism is the effort to expand science to all other fields of human affairs, even theology, and to usurp them in a reductionist fashion.
Hanekamp and Briggs conclude that the climate scientism Pope Francis peddles stands diametrically opposed to the Christian worldview. “Scientism of any stripe is incommensurable with not only the Christian faith but also with science.”
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“Pope Francis, perhaps unwittingly and most certainly unwillingly, rejects the God he clearly tries to serve wholeheartedly.”
Well, that’s wrong on almost every possible level.
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We will see that science has taken the place of God, namely in the form of scientism.
I see. So, you don’t believe in an almighty God and don’t have faith in Him. I thought a messiah had taken the place of God, and his name was Trump. Lol.
Those passages by the Pope seem harmless to me. Anyway, Pope Francis doesn’t embrace the idea that science alone is deemed capable of resolving all genuine human problems and that all real knowledge can only be scientific knowledge. After all, he is a theologian.
Most people may not be familiar with the concepts of scientism. When they need help, they seek God’s help in certain things and they seek out science or experts’ for assistance in others. The Bible is not a textbook of science.
You may be exaggerating the effects of scientism, similar to how some people exaggerate the effects of climate change.
Excellent essay. I appreciate your emphasis on the distinction between scientism and rational, logical science while de-emphasizing (as I read it) the stunning lack of Catholic theology in the Pope’s encyclicals.
There is a remarkable reinvigoration of Catholic and Christian devotion occurring across the world today. Our secular age has denied and opposed Christianity — examples of anti-Christian sentiment and attacks are profuse — but that tide is turning. The Pope should be encouraging, indeed leading, the modern Christian renaissance.
Instead, the Pope is apparently submissive to secular thought. Read his encyclicals on “climate change”. They are almost entirely devoid of reference to the Bible, to the eternal words of Jesus, to Catholic thought, to prayer, and to Christian truths. He is “missing in action” during a time when the Church is in, or should be in, revival.
Climate change is a scam at best, at worst an authoritarian movement to enslave and even destroy humanity. Truly Christian voices are needed now more than ever to oppose this existential threat. Pope Francis is not doing so. He seems, tragically, to be sabotaging his own religion.
re: “I thought a messiah had taken the place of God, and his name was Trump. Lol. ”
Apparently deceived by the observer’s own chosen misconceptions; a rational individual is prone to consider that as the reason such an observation is made. That quoted above is also not serious thought, or expression thereof, but rather bait, or chum. Surely Kammy would approve of such chummy-ness.
_Jim, of course, it is not a serious thought. It’s simple to mock the opposite side, but not so to endure being mocked. Who would have thought that politics could be so entertaining?!
The earth’s climate has been changing ever since God created it. It is the faithless that suddenly think this is a terrible thing.
This too shall pass.
My Dear Professor,
I really enjoyed your joint article on our deluded Pope.
I was surprised that you did not tell who the authors were of his Greencyclicals. Hans Schellenhuber, Jeffey Sacks, and Naomi Klein all satanic Malthusian Marxists had major inputs. This poor appointed pontiff does not have the capacity to write such drivel. Being a stooge of Sorearse and Schwab he is just their figurehead,
I wrote the following ditty at the time.
GREENECYCLICAL
I’d love to die a Catholic
With no feelings of compunction,
Now with all those closet Marxists
Who will give me Extremunction;
I cannot see any global warming
The real thermometers don’t lie,
Lets see the readings of the great
Meteorologist in the sky.
The atheistic Schellenhuber
Wrote the Green Encyclical,
Made sure no climate realists
To show his science was farcical;
He would stop the masses breeding
The lower classes he would bilk
Like his Nazi hero Malthus
He would not wish it on his ilk.
For years it has been obvious
The Roman Church is in decline,
To stop the rot Pope Francis
Has asked for help from Naomi Klein;
A well know Jewish Communist
Who spouts the parables of Marx,
The Pope should be preaching gospels
We know as Mathew Luke and Marks.
The New World Order plan completed
With all the major players on board,
We must make the whole world equal
With energy we cant afford;
We will stop the world revolving
Lets kick away the lower rung,
Make sure the poor of Africa
Continue cooking with dried dung.
The poop is not a theologian. He is a Teilhardian. His scienterrific expertise calls to mind the petulant Greta Thunberg from her adolescent improprieties, chastising the world from her gnostic throne. I much enjoyed the book by Wolfgang Smith “Theistic Evolution” in which he deconstructs the absolutely anti-Christian beliefs of that Jesuit heretic who has misled PF and all the Modernists in the Church. Thanks to you Mr Briggs for the tip about Dr Smith.
So I once read an excellent essay detailing exactly how PF is a Teilhardian and it was most convincing. I need to find it again – thanks if anyone can help.
“Anti-Pope Francis, well-informed and most certainly willingly, rejects the God he clearly will not serve wholeheartedly.”
Fixed.
Besides which, we all know his encyclical claptrap is mostly written by his perverted friends of suspect sexual vices of which he approves of and attaches his signature to.
They are shocked! SHOCKED! I tells ya!
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/msm-journos-inadvertently-reveal-shocking-truth-about-global-warming