Ethics

Pope Ratzinger's Latest Absurdity

By Ed Brayton

James Randi has a post on his website about a recent statement by Pope Benedict XVI blaming environmental problems on atheism, of all things. Get a load of this bit of chutzpah:

Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature's relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the "final authority," and the objective of existence is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).