John Ellis Bush, or “Jeb” when he puts on a propeller hat and has a Bomb Pop melting in his hand, recently challenged Pope Francis to verbal fisticuffs over statements on climate change.?Jeb Bush is Catholic. Remember that.
Pope Francis’ assertions on climate change, public knowledge because his encyclical was leaked, state that human activities are partially responsible. Pope Francis knows a thing or two about science. Remember that.
Catholic Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush spoke highly of Pope Francis to attendees of a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H., but then chided the Vicar of Christ, stating that “religion ought to be about making us better as a people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.”
There are two painfully and fundamentally wrong details in that statement.
First, Pope Francis is the freakin’ Pope. He is essentially Jesus’ mouthpiece. If Jesus were to come down from Heaven and tell the conservative bloc that human activities are accelerating deadly climate change, every old white guy with an American flag pinned to their jacket would stare slack-jawed into Diogo Morgado’s eyes and nod in absolute agreement.
Secondly, since when do Republicans criticize injecting their religious biases into politics? I mean, they’ve based an entire political ideology around their religious zealotry. They use the Establishment Clause as toilet paper while admiring a picture of Republican Jesus writing the Free-Exercise Clause framed on their bathroom wall. Religious Freedom Restoration Acts? Teaching intelligent design in public schools? Engaging President Obama in verbal fisticuffs over “controversial statements” he made on National Prayer Day?
An ignorant person would think the United States is a theocracy.
Ultimately though, Li’l Jeb isn’t the only theocrat in this confederacy of dunces to challenge Pope Francis to verbal fisticuffs over climate change acknowledgement. Rick “As Seen on Urban Dictionary” Santorum told the host of a Philadelphia radio show that the Pope should “leave science to the scientists.”
Yet, are Bush, Santorum, and the rest of the denialist Jesus groupies in the Republican Party scientists? Given their own admission, I do not think so.
