If one considers "dominion" to mean stewardship, he has a point... (Reply #6)

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Thu Sep 1, 2016, 03:20 PM

6. If one considers "dominion" to mean stewardship, he has a point...

... however, the more popular reading of "dominion" is "milk everything out of it until the whole thing goes down in flames."

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47 replies	Author	Time	Post
Pope Francis says neglecting the environment is a sin. [View all]	pnwmom	Sep 2016	OP
One issue I agree with him on...nt	Wounded Bear	Sep 2016	#1
I'll never figure out Christians who are happy to trash their god's creation...	hunter	Sep 2016	#2
My RW BIL is one of those.	Glassunion	Sep 2016	#9
Other things he says are sins:	trotsky	Sep 2016	#3
Catholics are 25% of the population -- an important swing vote. So it isn't pretending	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#4
And on the items I mentioned, they're important swing votes for Republicans.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#5
Not true. Pope Francis and the majority of Catholics do not prioritize	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#7
Absolutely true.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#8
As I said, American Catholics reject that view. Even those who consider abortion a sin,	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#13
Some American Catholics reject it. The majority do not.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#14
The majority of Catholics reject the Church's views on reproductive issues.	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#16
PNWMOM is supplying sources to support her premise, while you merely allege "facts."	LanternWaste	Sep 2016	#18
Oddly enough, my facts have links to surveys and data.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#19
You linked to a pre-convention Pew poll. I linked to an August ABC news poll.	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#22
Knee-jerk bigotry against a religion is as noxious as any other,	Hortensis	Sep 2016	#24
You can go ahead and like and admire a man who wants the following:	trotsky	Sep 2016	#38
Doesn't stick in my craw at all. I take extremely seriously	Hortensis	Sep 2016	#41
My female and LGBTQ friends/family mean more to me than platitudes.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#42
That total person thing, Trotsky.	Hortensis	Sep 2016	#43
Sorry, but I won't accept bigotry, or policies that devalue women.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#44
But, IMO you DO accept bigotry in Francis's case, the	Hortensis	Sep 2016	#45
It's not bigotry to oppose a bigot.	trotsky	Sep 2016	#46
You aren't trying to understand. The bigotry	Hortensis	Sep 2016	#47
Look again	JonLP24	Sep 2016	#37
In other words:	Act_of_Reparation	Sep 2016	#20
IOW, Catholics, based on a variety of concerns, are swinging away from Trump and toward Clinton.	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#21
In other words:	Act_of_Reparation	Sep 2016	#25
The Pope is strongly pro-environment, and pro- the poor, and pro- refugee and immigrant.	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#26
They remain popular positions nevertheless.	Act_of_Reparation	Sep 2016	#27
There is far more emphasis in the typical Catholic Sunday service on issues regarding the poor than	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#28
I don't find personal experience very compelling.	Act_of_Reparation	Sep 2016	#30
That's the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, not "The College of American Bishops".	rug	Sep 2016	#36
I guess his progressive cred bounce from Sanders' visit a few months back is pretty much over.	LanternWaste	Sep 2016	#17
U.S. Catholics are a very diverse group, similar to Jewish people.	hunter	Sep 2016	#35
Have I ever claimed otherwise?	trotsky	Sep 2016	#39
If one considers "dominion" to mean stewardship, he has a point...	malthaussen	Sep 2016	#6
Post #9	Glassunion	Sep 2016	#10
i was always taught stewardship.....as a prot must add that	dembotoz	Sep 2016	#40
Oh, good.	LittleDuckie	Sep 2016	#11
LOL	trotsky	Sep 2016	#12
With Pope Frank	magicnpoetry	Sep 2016	#15
Pope Francis is right again.	Hieronymus	Sep 2016	#23
A broken clock is right twice per day, so is Francis	Albertoo	Sep 2016	#29
"A willful blindness to the rise of Islamism"? The Church has been concerned about that	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#31
In medieval times, maybe. Francis? No.	Albertoo	Sep 2016	#32
I've been hearing warnings about it since Pope John Paul. n/t	pnwmom	Sep 2016	#34
I find it hard to take anything a pope says seriously on the environment.	roamer65	Sep 2016	#33

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