Dung of the Devil': Pope Francis Denounces Capitalism

damngrumpy

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All big stars embrace capitalism they are invested in it for tax shelters
I am not opposed to capitalism as long as there are some controls for
it unbridled anything is not good in the long run
 

darkbeaver

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While I am always in agreement with reducing financial freedoms and increasing social freedoms, this is obvious rhetoric to charge people up. And I completely agree with the science on climate change, but the solution will be in transforming our energy economy into one that encompasses renewable technology. It's not in this naturalistic fallacy that the pope proposes.

You completely agree with scientisms fraudulent position on climate change you do not agree with science at all. Sun block is a dangerous substance and should be used with caution and never ingested for kicks unless you are in the company of an adult, possibly a scientist.

... sez Francis from his glittery palace. I'll believe him a lot more when I see him using those vast Vatican resources to provide real assistance to the poor and downtrodden. Currently, that is mostly done by the capitalist countries through their foreign aid programs.

Capitalism has delivered death destruction dismemberment and carnage to the poor and down trodden in uncalculable tonnages, and capitalists regularly steal the nickles and dimes collected for the poor by well meaning people all over the world. The Pope is a fascist dictator and the anti-christ.
 

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If Africans grew grain like we do, they could feed the world all by their lonesomes.

With my 60ft seeder, I'm doing 525sq ft per second at 6 mph.

Try that with a yak.
You're an awful man, putting all those yaks out of work.

War has turned prime grazing and grain land to dust, the Chinese are part of the global populous damn near every developed nation subsidizes farming. Neat huh?



That isn't true. There is no food shortages or overpopulation.
I disagree about your assessment with overpopulation, but I agree there is no food shortage. There is a distribution problem and some folks would rather let food rot than see it go to folks that could use it; "If I can't get money for my crop, I'm keeping it" sort of idea. It's the same ol same ol profit over people thing. Expecting that to change is like talking to a wall or whistling into the wind.
IF (HUGE "if") we can figure out how to squelch our sense of greed and get food to folks that can't get or grow their own food, then we'll have licked the overpopulation problem as far as humanity goes. There'd still be a problem with humans rubbing out other species, though.

Meh Poop on the pope.
 

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The Catholic Churches condemnation of the predation and exploitation of Global Free Market Capitalism.. goes back to Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum in 1891... which upheld the rights of workers and nations.. and championed equitable distribution of wealth.

Global capitalism has now entered a truly malevolent phase now with Free Trade, Monetarism and the priviledge of capital and corporations over that of citizens.. the subgetation and looting of nations (look at Greece, the model for the future) and establishment of slave cultures in 'Free Trade Zones'.. one that will foment economic collapse and world war. So this is nothing new.

It was reiterated by Pius XI and John Paul II at the 40th and 100th anniversaries of the document.
 
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coldstream

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Does it say anything about turning their backs on dissidents?

It's another topic.. like that of the Whitehouse inviting Catholic dissidents and slanderers to its reception for the Pope.. feminists, abortion supporters, homosexual lobbyists.. just to shove its apostate, degenerate culture into the Holy Father's face.
 
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It's another topic.. like that of the Whitehouse inviting Catholic dissidents and slanderers to its reception for the Pope.. feminists, abortion supporters, homosexual lobbyists.. just to shove its degenerate culture into the Holy Father's face.

Well that did not surprise me at all. I hope it is televised.
 

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the Pope again paraphrases Jesus
 

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If he's so gung ho about denouncing Capitalism, maybe it's time he had a yard sale at the Vatican and send some of the proceeds down to Greece for starters and maybe a little up to Attawapiskat!
 

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If he's so gung ho about denouncing Capitalism, maybe it's time he had a yard sale at the Vatican and send some of the proceeds down to Greece for starters and maybe a little up to Attawapiskat!



Actually, he is not denouncing capitalism but its abuses. Still, you do have a valid point in that some of the capital the church has stolen over the years from the Third World should be returned to its rightful owners.
 

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Actually, he is not denouncing capitalism but its abuses. Still, you do have a valid point in that some of the capital the church has stolen over the years from the Third World should be returned to its rightful owners.

I thought someone would agree. :)
 

petros

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If he's so gung ho about denouncing Capitalism, maybe it's time he had a yard sale at the Vatican and send some of the proceeds down to Greece for starters and maybe a little up to Attawapiskat!

Screw Greece and screw Attawapiskat with Greece's limp dick.
 

petros

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Actually, he is not denouncing capitalism but its abuses. Still, you do have a valid point in that some of the capital the church has stolen over the years from the Third World should be returned to its rightful owners.
Did Spain give any of the half $billion in Incan gold and silver recovered from Black Swan?

What has the Church stolen? Bath robes from a Hilton?