Dung of the Devil': Pope Francis Denounces Capitalism

darkbeaver

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coldstream said:
Christian, and specifically Catholic, Economics was articulated in the early 20th Century by Catholic intellectuals such as GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. It became known as Distributism and really was not so much against Capitalism and it was against the predatory, greed sated, global system of Free Trade and Usury without any moral foundation or responsibility. That essentially put in the same class as atheistic Communism.

Such Papal Encyclicals as Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII in the late 19th Century championed the rights of working people to dignified, meaningful and sufficiently compensated employment; the right to ownership of the product of their labour; as well as the right to form guilds and unions. That was reinforced by Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno and John Paul II's Centesimus Annus . All three of them were charged with being enemies of Capitalism.

So depending on what Francis meant, he could be in complete comformity with the Catholic social doctrine over the last century. Unfortunately Francis does not have a strong grounding in Theology with which to express his opinions with clarity. Hence his pronouncements often seem incomplete, sentimental, eccentric or lacking in context. In many areas Francis' statements have caused confusion and distress to orthodox Catholics.

But it is true that modern, global, unfettered Free Market Capitalism is an antithesis to Catholic Social Doctrine. That rightly considers it an outgrowth of greed, power lust, pride through exploitation and theft. And that does make it a spawn of the Devil .
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At least you are left with hope.


Pope Francis denounces capitalism while standing on the front steps of capitalism, and Satan did not respond, something to think about,
 
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I like to think I have a bit of the anti christ in me...
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it helps with the free choice thing.

( Funny enough, I have been told when I was younger, depending on which classic hair style I had, I was told at different times, that I looked like both jeebus and the devil.
 
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Danbones said:
I like to think I have a bit of the anti christ in me...
:)
it helps with the free choice thing.

( Funny enough, I have been told when I was younger, depending on which classic hair style I had, I was told at different times, that I looked like both jeebus and the devil.
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Of course I agree Jesus and the devil are inseperable and with each being the flip side of each no decision to right or wrong can be diserned because of the lack of contrast. The light is known by its clarity and the dark by its lack of same. It,s as clear as up and down if there were no Satan what the fuk would be the work of Jesus?
I think I,ll sacrifice a hamster this afternoon.
 
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captain morgan said:
Define how your interpretation of global, unfettered free market capitalism is any different from the days of the Silk Road traders, communal societies in which the community leaders lived differently from other folks or how a bushel of wheat being traded to the highest bidder for goods/services is any different how you have described capitalism
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It's different in the sense of the common good as the first responsibility of the individual, defined by a moral order instuted by God.

You seem to be defining an society ruled by the (non existent) Invisible Hand of the Free Market as actuated by personal greed and enrichment. The difference is day and night.

In its most constructive formation social doctrine should be a fusion free enterprise and free labour.
 
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