Dung of the Devil': Pope Francis Denounces Capitalism
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Oh what a guy. "I'm sorry for what the Catholic Church did to you. But we're still not returning all the wealth we stole from you."
Capitalism is the "dung of the devil" :lol: Yeah, but Vatican avarice and lust for wealth and power is clearly "God's work". And apparently, so is protecting pedophiles.
Whines the man who lives in just about the wealthiest square mile in Europe, surrounded by one of the dirt poorest neighbourhoods in Europe. Funny how none of that Vatican wealth is "spilling over" into the surrounding neighbourhood.
the Pope again paraphrases Jesus
You got the good ones and the bad ones.
My biggest beef is when they rack-up big admin and management costs and only a few cents on teh dollar actually end up helping those that they state they are helping
Yes, Screw capitalism, people should just send in conquistadores to take all the gold they want and then put it behind a wall in a vault.
( tax free too, pretty much everywhere, except communist type places)
While hiding pedophiles and preaching the poor shall inherit the earth...
( or what's left of it when the banking vultures are done)
PS:
"Competition is a sin" is the system we actually have, and that is NOT capitalism!
It's nazicommieglowbalism.
capitalism has NEVER been tried.
( tax free too, pretty much everywhere, except communist type places)
While hiding pedophiles and preaching the poor shall inherit the earth...
( or what's left of it when the banking vultures are done)
PS:
"Competition is a sin" is the system we actually have, and that is NOT capitalism!
It's nazicommieglowbalism.
capitalism has NEVER been tried.
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Life is so wonderful under the benevolent rule of Communist regimes and dictatorships.
There is no hardship, abuse or anything bad ~ ever
There is no hardship, abuse or anything bad ~ ever
Yes, ever since they took our guns away we have had a very nice uninterrupted view of the sky.
looking straight up at it...forever....
Say, wait a minute, if there is no hell ( As Popie is reported to have said recently)...
where does the debbil rule?
looking straight up at it...forever....
Say, wait a minute, if there is no hell ( As Popie is reported to have said recently)...
where does the debbil rule?
Lots of replacements for guns.
If everyone is unarmed, then it's an issue of who has the sharpest and pointiest stick
If everyone is unarmed, then it's an issue of who has the sharpest and pointiest stick
...or the thickest skin
The sjws are even a weapon.
SJWs are victims in a unstructured society
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 .
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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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
Say, wait a minute, if there is no hell ( As Popie is reported to have said recently)...
where does the debbil rule?
The material world after cast down from the ethereal.