“During a recent period of years, the great ice-cap that is piled up on the lofty top of Greenland has been dissolving away all its edges more rapidly than has been known before and that rocks hitherto unseen, have been revealed. Also the winter ice-floe which seals up the polar coasts does not encroach so much on the land, and if the permanent ice-fields of the Polar Seas in winter were remapped a shrinkage might have to be shown round the beaches of N. Spitsbergen, Nova Zambia and elsewhere. Masses of ice that were landmarks have disappeared: ships were able to go farther north, free of ice in the summer months than for many years previously. The temperatures of the summer Arctic seas have proved higher degrees than the average.”
This is not the report of a contemporary of an arctic explorer submitted to Al Gore’s gloom and doom projections of an apocalyptic ending due to global warming, nor the findings handed down to former US President Barack Obama when he tweeted in 2013: “Ninety-seven per cent of scientists agree: # climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.”
Incidentally the 97 per cent figure comes from a survey of almost 12,000 peer-reviewed science papers carried out by Australian scientist John Cook. The survey actually only found a 97 per cent consensus among peer-reviewed papers taking a position on the cause of global warming. The catch is that only 34 per cent of the papers took a position on the subject. Since 33 per cent of the papers appeared to endorse the notion that humans cause climate change, Cook divided 33 by 34 to arrive at his figure of 97. It would be more honest to claim that one per cent of scientists say humans are not causing climate change, one third of scientists say they are and two-thirds of scientists are not making such dogmatic proclamations.
The aforementioned discoveries affecting the ice coverings of portions of the arctic regions were on-the-spot documentation and personal observations of the artic explorers at the beginning of the 1900s, included amongst whom are the famous explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Greenlander Knud Rasmussen, who strongly emphasised that both plant and animal life was more prolific than had been observed before. These enthusiasts – in love with the Arctic region, with their frequent exploits in the beginning of the 20th century – also give evidence of the environment and of life in the region.
Whether one believes that man-made climate change is real and causing all the cataclysmic and terrifying scenarios of an end-of-time catastrophe or whether one considers it cyclical weather occurrences, a natural phenomenon that science cannot explain, causing an increase in violent storms and unpredictable weather around the world, which puny man is not able to comprehend, is not the main subject of this exposé.
Since the predictions of global warming, or rather climate change (having changed the former phrase because it sounded rather unsustainable, too far-fetched and gullible to be accepted), have come into the fray, all manner of entrepreneurs wanting to make a quick buck, environmentalists, heads of state and NGOs, as well as government institutions wanting to be able to cash in on it, defined Co2 as the cause of all the havoc in the world. Not to be out done, the Roman Catholic Church has found fertile ground though unwittingly, but wilfully, attaching itself to the bandwagon of climate change to promote its agenda of Sunday worship.
Making Sunday the day of rest, according to the Church, is the only remedy that can cure all the maladies man has created, with the intention of achieving what for centuries seemed impossible: legalising universal Sunday worship worldwide. Surprisingly, some prominent world leaders have already given their consent and accepted the church reasoning to legalise Sunday worship.
Long before the decree and enforcement by Emperor Constantine of Sunday
Law at the Council of Laodicea in 321 AD, the Romans celebrated the birth of the sun on 25 December, the winter solstice. They named and celebrated Saturnalia, because on that day the sun appeared to have crossed over the northern hemisphere, and thus the birth of the sun – the sun god, Mithra – a Persian deity that was later accepted into the Roman pagan culture.
The veneration and adoration of the sun goes back millennia to Neolithic times as is witnessed by the huge megalith stone buildings erected specifically for the adoration of the sun. The written history of civilised cultures predating the Roman period, such as the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Babylonians, also show that sun worship dominated every aspect of their religious beliefs.
Ever since the Edict of Constantine, the Roman Catholic church has promulgated Sunday worship fervently to the extent that, by its own authority, it has altered the wording of the fourth Commandment – that of honouring the Sabbath as the day of rest – to simply state ‘Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day’ meaning Sunday. Pope Francis – along with the two previous popes before him, Benedict XVI and John Paul II, has promoted Sunday rest on several occasions in his speeches. He has done this with such intense and passionate fervour that – in his latest encyclical letter ‘Laudato Si’, with the excuse of saving the planet – he specifically writes ‘of keeping the Sabbath on Sunday will help the environment and a new lifestyle’.
When God finished His Creation week He signed His masterpiece by resting on the seventh day, the Sabbath, as a mark that He is the God of creation and by honouring and observing the Sabbath, gives witness to a bond and a mark between Him and His people for ever. By denying the seventh day Sabbath and substitute it for Sunday, Satan is also implying the removal of the Creator Himself, and of Creation week, giving credence to the theory of evolution which Roman Catholicism has officially recognised and sustained as the means of the presence of man.
Francesco Simon Mercieca