Papal irrelevance?
December 23, 2008(email sent to benedictxvi@vatican.va -December 23, 2008)
(January 5 update – the email bounced back, so I have to look for the Pope’s other email address.)
Dear Benedict (I’m not aware of the official way to address a Pope, but I believe anything more than a name is improper and self-important, given the nature of the faith you represent).
After your last declaration that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction, I feel it’s my duty as a former Catholic to give you a bit of perspective about some urgent matter.
Since these homosexual or transsexual behaviors have been going on for thousands of years, and since they don’t seem to have spread around the world in a way to actually threaten global human reproduction – as the population growth of the planet actually seems to accelerate – I don’t see the emergency to suddenly identify these behaviors as a threat to humanity.
BUT the levels of green house gases are increasing due to polluting human activities.
So, unless you tell your believers to stop polluting and take radical political actions to reduce green house gases, YOU ARE WASTING A PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITY TO BE RELEVANT. (Pardon the capital letters, I wanted to make sure there was proper emphasis).
In the XXIst Century, you are either WITH the people trying to save the environment or you are AGAINST all of humanity. There are no more urgent issues at this moment. Time is running out.
Should the billion Catholics work to save the planet or should they waste their time opposing other people’s sexual orientation? Personally, I don’t really care about anybody’s sexual orientation, but I’d like the planet to be inhabitable for the next generation of humans, whoever they decide to have sex with.
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– Denis McCready
A former Catholic from Canada.






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