Posted on 06/21/2015 6:01:18 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Most non-Catholics and many Catholics think the Pope is always infallible according to Catholic teaching. This is not true; he must be speaking on a matter of Faith and Morals and then only Ex Cathedra
God created poverty.
This proposition, while demonstrably true, is guaranteed to bring guffaws and cries of outrage from the religious Left, but it is true nonetheless. It hearkens back to the curse of Man in Genesis:
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground”
What was this curse of Adam? It was a curse of poverty. Adam would no longer find it easy to care for his physical needs, but would instead provide for them through great labor and difficulty. Poverty was the prime punishment for the Sin of Adam, and it has been the bane of all human existence ever since.
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Clear, reasoned, coherent.
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Rights do not presuppose obligation on the part of others. Actually, work may be a right but not a job, which is what Francis seems to think is owed to the poor. Work, as in when someone does something for remuneration, is absolutely natural and the most natural of all is capitalism, where one labors for oneself. That is the true right, not some vision of corporations as social welfare organizations - which Francis makes quite clear in his document is what he believes.
The author is also correct about capitalism. But what he fails to understand is the connection from poverty to labor to productivity is rationalism without which capitalism cannot function. Poverty is a clear necessity and necessity is the mother of invention. To assume that poverty is the curse of Adam means that there can be no rational path away from poverty. By doing that he leaves a giant opening for the welfare state to step in.
I agree wholeheartedly that the Pope needs to stay away from science since the "science" we are referring to is nothing more than politically correct nonsense applied to molecules and photons.
It’s hard to comment on a matter of faith: that poverty is a curse laid down on Adam and we would all be better off laying on the sofa with someone dropping grapes in our mouths. That sort of thinking is an invitation to the welfare state.
Look at God’s actual words:
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground”
To say that “That sort of thinking is an invitation to the welfare state” is to presume that others are simple-minded.
I just thought about the daily life of the average Cheyenne man back in the 1700s, as compared with that of an agricultural man.
Lots of men who were accepted into Indian tribes had no interest in returning to civilization.
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