Religion and Eco-Politics | Pope Francis, Marxism, and the End of Capitalism?
Moderator’s Note: Pope Francis has made a lot of news lately by enunciating against capitalism as a threat to the planet and humanity. His encyclical on climate change, which you can down load from this link, Laudato Si , condemns capitalism as a threat to biodiversity, ecosystems, and indigenous peoples. He also charges capitalism with being the principal cause of climate change, which places him well ahead of the majority of climate scientists, most of whom are too weak-kneed to declare that the other “C” word is an abomination. In today’s guest blog, Steven Argue praises the Pope’s encyclicals but rightly criticizes him for: going ahead with the canonization of the genocidal missionary, Junipero Serra; failing to resolve the role of the Church in supporting Nazi expansionism; failing to reverse the Church’s longstanding misogynist policies that threaten the health and well being of women; for failing to challenge the Church’s “Band-Aids for poverty”, which Argue suggests “are...