Indulge Me

I wish I had thought of this, and perhaps if I had have accepted that scholarship (I was close) to the The Society of Saint Pius X Seminary I would have, but admittedly my knowledge of Catholicism's more arcane history has lapsed in my years since of unrepentant sinning. Then again maybe its just the whiskey.

I was watching Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute on Tucker last night and he made the sagacious comparison between today's wealthy liberal elite and their practice of buying global warming moral authority through the use of carbon offsets and the Catholic Churchs practice of trafficking in indulgences to sinners during the Middle Ages.

In essence the extra good works of the Church and its clergy would be traded to those whose life on earth were not as, lets say... exemplary for monetary compensation -- mind you that this was long before bingo was invented.

Obviously this was a recipe for corruption; financially yes, but more importantly it was morally corrupt and was an integral reason for the Reformation Movement of Luther (fill in 2 Live Crew lyric here). Morality should not be commoditized.

In other words the wealthy that could pay received extra special forgiveness for their sins and a fast track to heaven while the poor were left to rot in hell.

Yeah thats fair.

I can think we can all agree that aint right and that it sounds vaguely familiar to the current charade that the liberal elites are trying to pull today.

This is not a condemnation of anyone's lifestyle. By all means if you want to sin and it doesn't hurt anyone else then rock out. If you want to fly around on private jets and drive a SUV then by all means do. I highly recommend it, it is so choice.

But to say that it's disingenuous to lecture others about adopting a behavior that you are neither willing or able to adhere to yourself would be a gross understatement as well as being morally bankrupt lacking all credibility. To impose said policy is downright criminal and unethical.

In the case of Al Gore, well it's simple...he's a shill. Hes been crying wolf about global warming for ages and yet he still leaves sasquatchian sized carbon footprints on the earth against his own best advice and the unimpeachable scientific consensus, and yet is only now as we speak making the politically correct changes. He's a fraud.

How hard would it have been to throw a windmill or a water wheel up on his property in the last decade? Not very... that is if he really believed what he's preaching which he doesn't. Hypocrite heal thyself. Its a political money grab plain and simple and that's that.

I was so impressed with Mr Smith that I linked his org the CEI, check them out... and I will leave you with a few quotes of his as well on this subject.

"Rich people will tell poor people to stay energy poor and as a result the world will be fine. The rich people can feel morally sound and the poor people will starve in the dark"

"Its essentially a plot by which rich guilty people allow poor people to stay poor is what it will amount to, and we will have green foreign aid and the rich in the poor countries will do well by taxing the poor in the rich countries"

Well said Fred, now go cash that check from Exxon.

EE-Aw!

On a related note The Aurora is pleased to announce that we will be doing our part to solve this crisis. Considering that on this very very very important issue of "the end of the world" we are significantly more informed than most, therefore we will be selling our extra knowledge logic reasoning and original thinking to those not as fortunate. We's got plenty to spare. So just pay the Roddy Piper and feel free to continue living like sheepish chicken littles. The Aurora has got ya covered.

Payments made in the form of booze will gladly be accepted at McSorleys Old Ale House tonight as pretty much the whole gang will be attending the Gingrich / Cuomo debate at The Cooper Union around the corner.

EX-Xon!!!