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Pope Francis talking to journalists on Monday, September 11, 2017 while flying to Rome at the end of a five-day visit to Colombia.  Credit Pool photo by Andrew Medichini. 

“Pope Francis slams ‘stupid’ climate change deniers” was the headline in Al Jazeera this past week. In the report, the current occupant of the seat of Antichrist, Pope Francis I, in so many words said that that you must be stupid if you deny the connection between man-made climate change and the recent hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean, Florida and Texas.

The fact that hurricane activity, contrary to predictions based upon the climate models of the global warming/climate change crowd, has been down in recent years didn’t stop Pope Francis from pontificating as to the cause of the storms. In ex cathedra like fashion, he pronounced them the result of climate change resulting from man’s activities. The pope said it. That settles it. No other explanation is needed or permitted.

The pope advanced the opinions of scientists to bolster his point. But the scientific community is not as united on the issue of man-made climate change or the cause of the severe storms of the 2017 hurricane season as the pope would like you to think. For example, climatologist Dr. Judith Curry has explained that the severity of Hurricane Irma was the result, not of increased sea temperatures, but of weak wind shear. According to her, weak wind shear had a lot to do with the intensity of Irma. As she explains it, strong winds take away the heat and moisture needed for a hurricane to strengthen. Further, strong winds tilt the vortex of a hurricane which also weakens the storm.

Perhaps Dr. Curry’s opinion is correct. Perhaps there is another, better explanation for the intensity of the 2017 hurricane season. But the big takeaway is that there are legitimate climate scientists who have cast serious doubt on the pope’s assertion that Irma was the result of man’s industrial activity.

But as much a concern as the pope’s pontificating pronouncement was, of greater concern is proposed solution: World Government. In his 2015 papal encyclical Laudato Si Francis wrote,

An interdependent world not only makes us more conscious of the negative effects of certain lifestyles and models of production and consumption which affect us all; more importantly, it motivates us to ensure that solutions are proposed from a global perspective, and not simply to defend the interest of a few countries. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan (italics in the original, bold face mine)…

The twenty-first century, while maintaining the systems of governance inherited from the past, is witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states [n.b. the Roman Church-State through its championing of globalist organizations such as the UN is a principal, perhaps the principal, cause of the destruction of the international system of nation states known as the Westphalian World Order, an order born of the Protestant victory in the Thirty Years’ War] chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empowered to impose sanctions. As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of the Church:
“To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago” (Chapter 5, emphasis mine).

This is extraordinary. Not only does Pope Francis openly call for world government, but he even admits that this goal is not unique to him, but rather is “in continuity with the social teaching of the Church.”

But as remarkable as the pope’s statement is, more remarkable still is the near total silence of the Protestant churches in the face of Antichrist’s all-out assault on the hard-won liberties bequeathed to the world by their spiritual forebears in the 16th and 17th centuries.

For several years now, I have listened to and read a great deal from the so-called alternate media, by which I mean bloggers, podcasters and YouTubers. And one of the consistent themes you see in the work of these individuals is an opposition to globalism. Many of these independent journalists are very open about pointing out the predatory activities of various globalist individuals and organization. George Soros, the Bilderbergers, central bankers and the like come under much deserved criticism, but missing nearly entirely is any understanding of the central role Roman Church-State plays in advancing the cause of globalism. The enormous blind spot exhibited by the alternate media when it comes to the Vatican can be explained to a large extent by the fact that most of these individuals are not Christians.

But what are we to say about the Protestant watchmen who refuse to sound the alarm over the encroachments of Antichrist? If anyone ought to see the Roman Church-State for the tyrannical false church it is, certainly it should be those who are heirs of the Reformation. Yet all too often we refuse to see the evil of Rome, even when the popes are shouting TYRANNY! and WORLD GOVERNEMNT! from the very rooftops. It’s almost a repeat of Goliath going out daily to insult the armies of Israel with no one having the faith in God to take up his challenge.

Brethren, these things ought not be.