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Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant
Karim Y. writes "The Vatican is going solar in a big way. The tiny state recently announced that it intends to spend 660 million dollars to create what will effectively be Europe's largest solar power plant. This massive 100 megawatt photovoltaic installation will provide enough energy to make the Vatican the first solar powered nation state in the world! 'The 100 megawatts unleashed by the station will supply about 40,000 households. That will far outstrip demand by Pope Benedict XVI and the 900 inhabitants of the 0.2 square-mile country nestled across Rome's Tiber River. The plant will cover nine times the needs of Vatican Radio, whose transmission tower is strong enough to reach 35 countries including Asia.'"
Putting hits and stalkers out on folks who don't agree with the Catholic agenda and defense fees for pedophile priests.
But as long as the crazy zealots go to Mass every Sunday and pay their dues then all will be forgiven.
Churches do operate under the 'do good' platform, but they do good for the church, not for the individuals in the church and certainly not for individuals outside the church. This is why, for example, the Catholic church prohibits contraception; it makes the church grow more quickly. The fact that it encourages poverty and overtaxes the planets resources, causes wars, and increases the spread of aids are simply side effects (although the increase in poverty is beneficial, since the church finds it easier to spread its doctrine amongst people who can be convinced that their material poverty translates to spiritual wealth).
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there's no proof of this, only vague predictions and bad hollywood movies.
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... 660 million dollars is petty cash to the Vatican, so perhaps this amounts to the kind of thing you and I might do on a Friday night to blow off a little steam and empty our pockets of jingling coin.
If there's a hint of bitterness in that, perhaps it's because the Vatican takes in billions of dollars every year from addictive delusional suckers, just like lotteries and casinos... only worse: they then use those billions to control people's action and thought, unlike lotteries and casinos, not to mention cajoling them into donating further billions. It's not about saving souls, it's about funding a minority's desire to wear nice funky robes and feel ridiculously important.
The comments for this story are really quite amusing. It's rather entertaining seeing just how bigoted the progressives on this site actually are. If a colony of homosexuals, or a socialist nation had announced they were going solar in such a major way, you all would undoubtedly be falling all over yourselves to pat them on the back. However, as soon as an organization as evil as the church, with dastardly tenets like do unto others as you would have others do unto you, obey your father and mother, and thou shall not kill announces the plan, they must be decried for how truly foolish they are. Careful, your duplicity is showing. Apparently the liberal love for the environment is vastly overshadowed by their hatred of well meaning do-gooders that believe in something foolish.
I'm personally somewhere between atheist and agnostic, but is it really necessary to tear people down for their beliefs. It would seem that, while they are still human, they're only trying to help.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill
I am somewhere between Christian and agnostic, but we are talking about Catholic church here (not that other organized religions are any better).
with dastardly tenets like do unto others as you would have others do unto you
Read up on pope's comments about Islam or homosexuals and tell me how does he want catholics to be treated, especially in nations with another dominant religion?
obey your father and mother
Funny thing, I have never heard anything about that from Vatican, republican party, and other self-professed leaders of Christianity. I think they are too busy with making people obey their dogma instead.
thou shall not kill
I think this should include telling an HIV-infected african guy all the realistic ways he can reduce probability his "gun" will kill his wife and unborn (and, in the unfortunate reality, teenage) children.
well meaning do-gooders that believe in something foolish
I think if you really study the history or today's impact of Catholic church you would find that description a bit naive.