Pope Benedict XVI says Cars are the Root Cause of the Iraq Iran war leading us all into Nuclear World War 3 and Global Warming and Highway Fatalities and Cancer, the leading cause of death on earth.

In a stunning display of unity the world’s religious leaders have come together led by Pope Benedict XVI to call for a permanent world wide Car boycott. At yesterday’s Vatican Conference on Climate Change Pope Benedict XVI addressed world religious leaders, politicians and scientists. Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks: Pope Benedict XVI: “Imagine that you are a lawyer. A new client walks in the door and wants to sue Mr. X. Mr. X is your client. It is your obligation to tell the new client that you cannot act for him because you have a conflict of interest.” Pope Benedict XVI continued: “Many world governments have adopted a separation of Church and State. This means that the Government must be secular, separate from religion.” “Imagine that the air is gray and filled with poison caused by cars burning oil, gasoline. Now imagine that your political leaders are oil executives. Is this not like putting the fox in charge of the hen house? Is this not the ultimate conflict of interest? The oil executive political leaders lured by the allmighty dollar are putting their own finacial interests above the right of every person on earth to breathe air free from deadly poison.” “A cancer chemical shot out of a car’s exhaust pipe hits a man, woman or child and then explodes inside of that person 10 years later in the form of a deadly cancer which eats the person alive from the inside until they die a prolonged and agonizing death. The time has come to stop wasting our money treating the symptoms of the cancer. The time has come to weed out the Root Cause of the cancer, the car. This is why we, the religious leaders of the world have come together today to demand an immediate permanent world wide car boycott.” Pope Benedict XVI continued: “Soon I will be traveling to New York City to address the United Nations. The United States of America is using an obscene 22 million barrels of oil per day, 12 million barrels of which are imported from Saudi Arabia. Four years ago the United States invaded Iraq to capture the Middle East’s oil. No other country uses even 2 million barrels of oil per day. It is the burning of these fossil fuels which is causing the global warming catastrophe now upon us. It is this addiction to gasoline which is the root cause of the Iraq War now spreading to Iran and Nuclear World War 3. Every scientist here today knows that Nuclear World War 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will leave no survivors and will soon cause the extinction of life on earth forever at our human hands.” “God helps those who help themselves. God gave us all brains and it is time for us to use them. A dilemma is when a person has two choices, one bad and one worse. The lesson of the cross is personal sacrifice. Replacing cars with bicycles and bicycle paths will be painful in the beginning but this is how we will save the world ourselves. Humans lived for 5 million years without cars until 100 years ago. This proves that we can all live without cars again.” Pope Benedict XVI continued: “Disregard for the environment, the earth, water and air of which we are made will soon end our existence as a species and the rest of life on earth, God’s planet, forever. The mastery of man over life on earth, God’s creation has become despotic and senseless. We must safeguard life on earth, God’s creation. We must preserve the rainforests. Trees and plants are our only source of oxygen. Humans and other animals will not be able to survive drinking man made deadly poison acid rain water.” “Our God carved in stone, “Do Not Murder”. Poisoning the earth’s air, water and earth is the ultimate world wide murder suicide of life on earth forever and in order to weed out the Root Cause of the problem we, the religious leaders of the world have come together today to call for an immediate permanent world wide car boycott. Stop buying cars immediately.” “This personal sacrifice by all of us now will save life on earth. Your continued purchase of cars will soon end life on earth forever because cars are the Root Cause of our biggest problems. Loving yourself and loving your neighbor does not include poisoning yourself and your neighbor to death and extinction with your car. When the earth returns to its original pristine pure clean condition your children and grandchildren will thank God that you stopped buying cars today.” Claire Foster, the environmental policy adviser to the Church of England said at the Vatican Conference on Climate Change yesterday, “The environment and religion is a no brainer but we are all only now realising it. The Church of England is 100% behind Pope Benedict XVI. It’s only common sense. You cannot break the laws of nature but if you do it will break your back.” The Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Sikh and all of the other religious leaders at the Vatican Conference on Climate Change yesterday unanimously backed the call for the immediate and permanent world wide car boycott. http://www.religionandnature.com

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I do not believe the notice of the Holy Father is true. That he should call us to stop driving and ride bicycles, is unbelievable. It was the invention of a kill a child but please save the weeds.

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It all sounds very familiar. To whoever may read these lines - what will happen is that, with the help of secular authorities, the Pope will introduce a ban on using cars on Sunday to help prevent worsening of climate change. Someone will say that this is happening because the humanity disobeyed the God's laws. However, they will fail to help improve the conditions on the Earth, and they will accuse one group of people who still obey the true day of rest designated by the Lord, sabbath, of being those who stand in the way of God's mercy. It may seem craziness, but I ask you to save this craziness in your memories and remember it when it starts happening.

This piece surfaced in my Google alert, but I found it very strange that such a milestone piece of news was not echoed on other sites. Upon reading the text, it is very clear to me that this is in no way how the Pope would choose his words. And in order to convince anyone, sources would have to be cited etc. Also I do not think the world is ready for this call to action yet. However the list of very negative effects of the overuse of cars is much longer tan in the text, ad it is high time to count them. One way would be to intensify sreious efforts at meking full account of all the so caled externalities of the car. That is to say put some monetary value on the cost of the burden that overuse of the car has for society. Some of it can probably be culled from the Stern report on Global Warming: In addition to GW, we have the abovementioned toxic fumes, and particulate matter. Studies doen in EU cities by WHO, found local pollution from cars kill more people than crashes in traffic. If that can be translated by using global numbers for traffic death, we get, makes more than a million people each year, or 3000 a day. Then there is all the land that overemphasis on car traffic demands. In some cities the car takes 50-70% of the land. Furthermore car traffic creates barriers to walking and cycling, and thereby is a significant factor in the obesity and sedentary lifestyle epidemic, which is estimated to shorten the lives of far more people ( and more life-years) than car crashes and pollution combined. And we have habitat destruction / biological diversity, resource depletion ( oil, plus manufacture of cars ). At far end cars creates huge problems on landfills, toxic waste etc. A hydrogen car or biodiesel do in no way solve all those problems. Those are temporary solutions while we wane ourself from car misuses. A few links befoe I dart off : EXTERNAL COSTS OF TRANSPORT. UPDATE STUDY Road transport costs EU countries 650 billion euros a year A multimodal fund should be set up to promote sustainable transport http://www.ecf.com/misc/filePush.php?mimeType=application/pdf&fullPath=http://www.ecf.com/files/2/12/23/BRR_166_English.pdf Exercise-based transportation reduces oil dependence, carbon emissions and obesity http://www.citeulike.org/article/1029142

Such flagrant lies are a disservice to both good journalists and to people of faith. Anyone with an oun ce of good sense knows that the writer made this up. As someone who covers the Vatican I read everything the Pope says.

I will believe the Pope actually said anything like this when CNN reports that he has junked his Pope-Mobile. Someone who is mildly creative, but woefully elementary in style, and not even close to Benedict XVI in erudition, has posted a hoax. It saddens me that anyone would resort to such attempted deceipt in order to further the "global warming" panic.

I wrote that false articles ike this harm good journalists and also people of good faith - not to mention the Pope. The words "harm" did not come out in my headline so I am writing again: My title is: FALSE STORIES LIKE THIS HARM JOURNALISM Anyone with an ounce of good sense knows this is false. Grazie!

this is hilarious, all you people freaking out and thinking you must post your comment to belie this article, lest any poor soul may believe it. we must protect our infallible pope, eh? so it's pretty obvious that this pope guy wouldn't write like this, yet one feels they still have to comment pointing this out so that none of the poor flock end up beleiving it. well here's some "news": A lot of people out here don't think the pope is infallible, rather as corrupt as the rest of them, and by the way, he's just another guy too, so even if he had said these words, they wouldn't carry anymore weight than if I said them.

Dear fellow humans, I agree to the critical and intelligent comment of one of the readers: Pope Benedict would never use such harsh words. He is more of a diplomat. Still, I agree to the contenance of the message. There is a religious problem with air pollutiion, forest devastation, seas being made impure, wars being held for economical and oil supply reasons. Moreover, as a Young Profet, I expect our Religous Leaders soon to see the following truth: Not only is there a problem of disrespect for Mother Nature, for the Cration like it comes from YHWH, the crazy devotion of so many to their car is killing the ability to develop normal, hospitable, celstial Relations between human creatures. Millions go to their (dull) job every day, to earn money to pay and keep going one or two cars, and thus have no time to be a responsible father, mother, neigbour and compassionate helper of the weak and the poor where you meet them. Car is the Holy Cow of this century. It reminds the hour that Moshe came down from the Holy Mountain, and found his flock warshipping a golden calf. Car is the Bull of Steel and G(l)ass Leave it. Be humble. Walk and bike. With warm & pure greetings, Stefaan Christopher Hublou Leuven, Belgium, EU

Señores: He seguido todos los escritos, homilías, mensajes y discursos de Benedicto XVI. Un hombre ecuánime, con mucha sabiduría. Este articulo que ustedes publican sobre el boycot a los carros segun mensaje del Papa Benedicto XVI es falso. Nunca jamas ha dicho eso, han puesto en su boca lo que ustedes han querido decir. La verdad es tan necesaria para la vida sana del hombre como el ambiente que decimos cuidar. El humo contamina el ambiente. La mentira contamina la verdad. Si debemos proteger el ambiente, debemos tambien proteger la verdad. Por favor sean responsables en lo que publican.