Senator Jim Inhofe Versus The Pope

Jun 13, 2015 By Benjamin Teh 16 Comments

Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe said on Thursday that Pope Francis should keep his “opinions” to himself. The argument was that the Pope should tend to religious matter alone. The Pope is known for supporting measures against climate change.

Inhofe expressed these feelings regarding the Pope at a climate-change conference held by the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is a organization founded in Chicago and has a reputation as a fundamentalist conservative and libertarian institution.

This is curious considering that Republicans always welcomed the same Pope’s opinions on matters like birth control for example, which is just a scientific a subject as climate change. But maybe this has more to do with the Pope’s understanding of the matter.

Many climate-change deniers, politicians and private citizens alike, have stated that science and religion should not be mixed. However there is a pattern emerging, with these kinds of remarks being said only when a specific group doesn’t like what the Pope is saying.

Many of the same groups that fight climate-change are in favor of religion being thought in school, alongside scientific subjects like chemistry and biology. So when climate-change deniers said the Pope should “stick to what he knows” it came as a bit of a surprise.

However the Pope might know more than climate-change deniers think he knows.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he was known before becoming Pope is an Argentinean citizen. The surprising fact is that he hold a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from the Buenos Aires University.

In contrast, the latest person to attack the Pope for his “scientific” views, Senator James Inhofe has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economy, received at the age of 40,so maybe in this field the Pope is likely to be better informed on the subject.

The Pope has become very popular since his election on the 13 of March 2013. His modest behavior, soft tone of voice, and wide views have made him into a hero of the Catholic and Christian faith.

This is not the first time the Pope has come under scrutiny from religious and traditionalist groups, including some members of the Republican Party.

The Pope has claimed that he does not have the right to judge homosexuals, and has also said that even atheist will go to heaven if they are good and just moral people.
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Dlweld

Jim Inhofe and the deniers are becoming walking comedy routines – their
denial antics are getting more and more bizarre as the try to rationalize their
non-reality based views.

Now they’re sayin’ that they have a more direct line to what the Almighty
wishes than the Pope does. Good one.
Crewlaw

Apparently Senator Inhofe is only concerned with “freedoms” like freedom of speech, when the speech is what he wants to hear.
What gall and arrogance, to think that he, the mighty Senator from Oklahoma, has the right to tell ANYone that he should keep his opinion to himself, no less the Pope, who has a lot more people interested in his “opinions” than does some hick Senator from Oklahoma.
mememine

Fear mongering, bible thumping, planet loving climate blame “believers”? Too funny!

Since the Pope now embraces your climate blame “beliefs”, will you inclusive and tolerant and accepting liberals now become; “anti-evolution, anti-gay and pro-life as well?
Ranger Dan Parsons

I wonder how much the Koch Brothers paid him to say that?
OTappy

2 million has been donated from the oil industry over the course of his political career.
zlop

Pope is a mercenary of the Evil $atanic World Order;
He needs to be exorcised from his Pizza eating Gluttony.
zlop

Vatican is controlled by the Rothschild, Gore and Blood, Carbon Tax Extortion Racketeers. Is the Pope being blackmailed?
zlop

Ted Turner is corrupting the United Nations Foundation with $6 Billion. Then there is the $95 Trillion Carbon Disclosure Project, that even Noam Chomski dare not speak out against.

The $2 million, from Koch, is just Hegelian dialectic
zlop

Pope should be allowed to destroy Christianity,
Lead the trusting dunderheads into Carbon Tax Tyranny?
zlop

“anti-gay and pro-life as well”

Even though the ” Vatican Plagued by Homosexuality” does
not mean that you have to reject LBGT and deny CO2 warming.
dratman

Inhofe is a true Republican: arrogant, ignorant and offensive. I hope all the Catholics in Oklahoma hear about this. They need to know what a little Hitler they have elected to represent them.
dratman

I keep trying to laugh at these “walking comedy routines” but I can’t stop throwing up every time I hear them.
dratman

Shut up, Slop.
Dlweld

I see where the Inhofe Comedy Troupe has added a trained monkey to the cast – name of “zlop”. I expect good things from him – his random spoutings have lead (so far) to much hilarity.
dratman

“led to much hilarity” (“led” not “lead”)
Dlweld

Thx – well, average the past and the future and maybe we get the present. Cover the full range. :+)