So she reinterpreted Scripture to suit her modern agenda. She's adding things to the Bible because she feels them important. Despite the fact that climate change wasn't an issue for the primitive folks who wrote it and there's nothing like guidance on the subject.
That worked for the anti-feticide people. And a surprising number of people believe the Bible supports representative government, when it clearly doesn't.
People rewriting the Bible to serve their own agendas isn't exactly new.
Tom
She's interpreting the Bible according to the Catholic magisterial and exegetical tradition, which is not limited to the Bible as its sole source of divine revelation and admits of progress of understanding in relation to the deposit of faith.
Whether it be in terms of air pollution, infestation of the oceans with plastic waste, global warming; water scarcity or the felling of trees ("the lungs of the earth") in the Amazon rainforest: the depletion of the world’s natural resources by human beings is outpacing our planet’s ability to absorb the damage wrought. The recognition that there is a close interrelation between environmental degradation and human sinfulness has a long pedigree in Catholicism.
In one of St. Hildegard of Bingen's (1098-1179) visions, she predicted the coming of a period when the environment would be "
harmed by the sins of men and women and fall totally into the service of disorder."
Here is what she wrote:
Vision 10: 20
In these days sweet clouds will touch the Earth with a gentle breath and cause the Earth to overflow with the power of greenness and fertility.
Then people will prepare themselves completely for justice, which was lacking in the above mentioned period of weakness, for the elements, harmed by the sins of men and women, had fallen totally into the service of disorder.
The princes and everyone else will put God's decrees into proper practice. They will forbid all weapons used to kill people and only tolerate such iron tools as are needed in farming and for the benefit of humanity.
And just as clouds let down a mild rain suitable for the germination of seeds, the Holy Spirit will pour forth the dew of grace, along with wisdom, prophecy, and holiness, upon people so that, just as if turned around, they will lead different and good lives.
In these days a true summer will reign through God's power because everyone will be steady in the truth: priests and monks, virgins and those who practice celibacy, as well as other classes of society will have their dignity by living well and honorably and by rejecting every kind of arrogance and excessive wealth.
Then, just as through the balance of clouds and air the necessary conditions of life for fertility are created, the seed of spiritual life will sprout through God's grace. These days will be strong and glorious, full of peace and stability.
Anthropogenic global warming and other ecological problems could not have been known to the sacred authors of scripture. But care for the integrity of God's creation in humankind's role as a steward of the natural environment certainly is, and climate change is the greatest threat to it today.
So the application of the former to the latter, in terms of a timeless moral principle derived from natural law applied to a given set of circumstances in modernity, logically follows from a Catholic theological perspective.
