Wonder what the pope’s explanation for Cuba’s economic success is, or possibly North Korea or Zimbabwe?
It’s making me sick the way the left wing toads in the state controlled “media” is getting all mushy and syrupy over this guy.
No economic system has done more than capitalism to uplift untold millions of people out of poverty and misery than capitalism. If the Pope were truly interested in helping the poor and downtrodden, he would glorify and praise capitalism.
I refuse to use the term “capitalism” to describe my economic philosophy.
“Capitalism” is a term invented by Marx to describe the exploitative economic growth in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
It ceased to exist after Poor Laws were passed in the late 1840s.
Free enterprise is not an ideology. It is the opposite of an ideology.
I doubt that the left will be too happy with his FIRM stand against abortion and euthanasia...and FOR sexual chastity and marriage between one man and one woman.
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They don’t believe in Catholicism ...but they believe in this guy. Cult of personality/celebrity worship.
Sowell once again nails it. The pope is nothing but a leftist mouthpiece dribbling out the same old tired failed redistributionist excrement that we’ve been hearing from the communists and their USA branch, the democrats, ever since Marx put their foolish ideas in official form.
Pope Francis will be shocked at all the worldy goods poor Americans have in their homes. This ain’t Argentina Padre.
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For centuries the Catholic Church aligned itself with royalty. Royalty had the power and they wanted to be part of it.
Now that the politicians have the power and royalty has little, the Vatican is aligning itself with the political structure.
Opportunists - all of them.
I am an active and practicing Roman Catholic. I do not care much for this Pope. As far as I am concerned he has done nothing to bring people back to the fold. I have several friends who love him for liberal views and none of them have returned to church because of him. If he was around during the time of Christ, he would have betrayed Christ for free.
Do NOT, repeat, DO NOT tell boner not obamas bitch, McConnell
We can't do anything till we have the House..
We can't do anything till we have the House and Senate
We can't do anything till we have the House, Senate and White House.
We can't do anything till we have the House, Senate, White House and the Pope
Thomas Sowell proves himself, again, to be brilliant and rational. What a shame that we are stuck with an ignorant “pope” who doesn’t even understand the essential connection between private property and freedom, which Adam Smith and Hayek and Milton Friedman so brilliantly explained so a 10 year old could understand it. Free Will is being able to make a CHOICE——and to be human-—people MUST have choice....but not in a socialist/Marxist/satanic system where you have ONE way to “think”.
I have always been amazed at how brilliant the minds were in most encyclicals of the past popes——until this pope emerged very suspiciously. Hmmmmmmm. It is true about how socialism destroyed Argentina and created such dire poverty in the county—both spiritually and economically.
Shame on the Catholic Church for allowing such evil ideology to take over the brilliant works of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Pius the X warned of this creeping evil ideology which was destroying the Church from within in Pascendi in 1907 or so. Sowell is well-informed and correct, as usual.
We need to be aware of the wolf in sheep clothing——we will know them by their “fruits”. (LOL) Truth does set us Free!!!!! Seeking Truth is what Thomas Sowell has been all about——much more than this “pope” evidently, and that is the mission of the CATHOLIC CHURCH —to promote TRUTH (LOL). (All I hear from the Vatican now is lies and misinformation-—blurring the Truth, which is pure satanism).
(PS I am a Catholic and raised in Catholic schools. I studied Latin and learned the Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic which obsessed Aquinas who was an Aristotelian. (Aristotle is the Father of Logic and is why Western Civ had the Age of Reason-— which this pope has ejected totally for Eastern tribalism and many “truths” and contradictions. (Just pure evil and satanism to reject Reason since the Mind is what elevated man above animal and made us in the image of God)).
Do you notice— this pope is trying to eject Reason (all the ideology which created the Age of Reason and US Constitution), which only makes us into godless animals-—just like the socialist, Marxists want so they can herd, control and cull us.
By every statement he makes, Pope Francis reveals himself to be an economic and historical ignoramus who will end up doing far more harm than good.
Whose views are closer to Jesus, Sowell or the Pope?
I’m thinking the Left has had their Pope throughout the majority of my life (60 years) with only the possible exception of John Paul II, nee Karol Wojtyla of Poland.
Jesuits(especially professors) are by and large, marxists/communists. They have backed every marxist dictator of the last 50 years.