Al Gore and the new Indulgences scam

Al Gore, and Johann Tetzel; soul brothers [3.]

The charade of the wealthy buying 'carbon credits' is a new version of an old game; namely the practice [popularized by the old Catholic church] of buying indulgences. It's the game of paying for the right to sin; paying for the right to be immune from any penalty for sin; the game of allowing the rich to say one thing and do another. In my opinon, 'cap and trade' is a re-run of an old game.

- An example of this is Al (the hockey stick) Gore.... (with his super sized mansion, super sized houseboats, supersized lifestyle; supersized ego, etc.) He (or his pr firm) pretends his decadent and ultra wasteful lifestyle is made clean and noble by buying a few carbon credits. This strikes me as little more than comical.
We're staring at hypocricy the size of a 100 foot yacht. It all boils down to saying 'if you're rich you can live like an jerk and yet brag about being righteous. (And thus in Orwellian double speak; bad is really good.) So in the language of long ago, you can sin as you please and still get to heaven. (Nice work if you can get it I guess.)

- In my view scare mongering (lies, hype, deceit and b.s.) is a poor way to encourage a responsible attitude toward environmental concerns. In my opinion the eco movement has made a serious mistake with their decision to rely upon Socialism and the mega state as an approach to stewardship. In my opinion the better approach is to favor a widely dispersed private ownership and local government. I think that a belief in Creation is the foundation for responsible behavior. In biblical terms; the world was created by an all wise, all intelligent God. It belongs to God, and man is but a steward under god... and man must act in terms of conformity to God's law. This is the biblical approach; and sadly it's one that most people (even Christians) seem to have rejected.

- Al Gore is quite the guy; first he invented the internet, and then he invented global warming.

Notes;
1. If he really cared for protecting the environment we'd see evidence of it in his private life; but we don't. [Throw a few coins to the poor and wave like royalty.] As played by people like Gore environmentalism is just another socialist scam; whereby politicians gain more power and wealth.
2. If the planet does not belong to God it belongs to man. If it wasn't created by god it just happened by accident. The implications of this are immense. If it just happened by accident it doesn't matter what human beings do to it; how they change it; or even if they destroy it. (eg. genetic engineering is founded on the 'accidentalism' of Materialism. i.e. if no one created the world no one can be harmed by human intervention into the genetic process.)
3. Johann Tetzel was the famous monk who sold indulgences
- Johann Tetzel (1465 – 11 August 1519) was a German Dominican preacher remembered for selling indulgences and for a couplet attributed to him, "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs. - Wiki
- Because of the great demand from associations that their favorite prayers, devotions, places of worship or pilgrimage, their processions and meetings, be enriched with indulgences, there was a tendency to forge documents declaring that such indulgences, sometimes of extraordinary character, had been granted. Indulgences were attached to many works that were not only good but also served the common good, both religious and civil: churches, hospitals, leprosaria, charitable institutions and schools, and also roads and bridges. - Wiki
The later Middle Ages saw the growth of considerable abuses, such as the unrestricted sale of indulgences by professional "pardoners"[3] (quaestores in Latin), who were sent to collect contributions to the project. In many cases the preaching of these, out of ignorance or shrewdness, went far beyond dogmatic teachings; some of them even dared to promise that the damned would be released from hell. Permission began to be granted to Catholic kings and princes, particularly on the occasion of Crusades, to retain for themselves a rather considerable part of the alms collected for the gaining of indulgences. The most well-known and debated question is the indulgence granted for building the new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. - Wiki
5. If it weren't for the indulgences scheme Al Gore would be villified; but thanks to PC buffoonery he's claimed a champion of all the right causes. Nice trick.
- as a clever twist on all this, it now turns out Gore himself is in the business of selling indulgences. (Nice work if you can get it.)
6. It's not true by the way, that Gore invented the hockey stick; that was invented by a guy from Canada. (As I recall it was a fellow named Moose Lafleur :=)