Dear God,

Forgive your earthly mouthpiece, Francis of Rome, for he knows not what he is talking about when he preaches the gospel according to the Ruling Orthodoxy. There is Francis and there is the UN’s António Guterres. These two socialist agitators have pushed climate change to the forefront of their respective missions.

Francis most recently went far off your reservation with his Laudate Deum the other day. We could be forgiven for thinking he is worshipping the false gods of man-made planet cooking… He is fanning the flames that old Guterres says are boiling the planet. Dear God!

I don’t mean to be mean to Francis, but talk about pontificate! He called for ‘more effective world organisations, equipped with the power to provide for the global common good, the elimination of hunger and poverty and the sure defence of fundamental human rights’.

What about world peace, Francis?

To me, all that sounds a bit too reminiscent of ‘Today Catholics … tomorrow ze vorld!’ A new world order, eh?

Maybe tripping on the incense, Il Papa then sprayed the world with more alarmist fibs (a sin, don’t you know?).

‘Millions of people are losing their jobs due to different effects of climate change: rising sea levels, droughts, and other phenomena affecting the planet have left many people adrift,’ he claimed.

The transition to renewable energy was capable of ‘generating countless jobs in different sectors. This demands that politicians and business leaders should even now be concerning themselves with it’. They are, Francis, and it’s a disaster.

Laudate Deum comes eight years after the Pope’s green encyclical, Laudato Si. Francis flagellates himself and all of us. ‘With the passage of time, I have realised that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,’ he wrote, but failed to cite the source of that particular claim; Greta Thunberg.

She also beat him to the following rubbish. Francis continued:

‘No one can ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest on the part of the earth that are only a few palpable expressions of a silent disease that affects everyone.’

Actually, dear Pope Francis, we can all readily ignore those non-existent weather demons. Doesn’t anyone in the Vatican fact-check?

Francis argued against those, ‘…who would place responsibility on the poor, since they have many children, and even attempt to resolve the problem by mutilating women in less developed countries. As usual, it would seem that everything is the fault of the poor. Yet the reality is that a low, richer percentage of the planet contaminates more than the poorest 50 per cent of the total world population and that per capita emissions of the richer countries are much greater than those of the poorer ones. How can we forget that Africa, home to more than half of the world’s poorest people, is responsible for a minimal portion of historic emissions?’

Que? This is just stew, made from the worst ingredients of stale ignorance. It is the apportioning of blame for all earthly woes onto the false devil of emissions. Authoritarian leaders do this sort of thing to demonise a target.

I don’t imagine you, dear God, would have entrusted the Earth’s climate to be managed by humankind; we can hardly get the weather reports right. Please have a word with Francis, reminding him that worshipping false gods is a no-no, telling him to focus on what he knows … like saying mass, bless him.