“When I look at America,” said Pope Francis during a recent address at a university in Southern Italy, also looking at his “own homeland in South America, so many forests, all cut, have become land ... can no longer give life.”
“This is our sin, exploiting the Earth and not allowing her to her give us what she has within her. This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation,” the pope told an audience of “students, struggling farmers and laid-off workers.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-8th-and-final-deadly-sin-exploiting-the-earth-2014-12-03
He's right, and it doesn't matter if you're a Catholic or not.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18 KJV
By the way, I do not agree with the author that this is the "final sin". The final sin is presaged in the Book of Genesis:
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
The final sin will be challenging G-d through attempting to become like Him by living forever. Those who seek to greatly extend the human lifespan through medical science or by combining humans with machines are on the verge of committing this sin. Should they succeed, it is unlikely their sin will go unpunished, since it represents a direct threat to the divinity of our Creator.
There can be only one G-d.
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