Posted on 02/28/2015 11:15:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his address to the Italian Confederation of Cooperatives Saturday, Pope Francis employed muscular language in speaking about money — while acknowledging its importance to business. “Money,” he said, “is the devil’s dung.”
“It is not easy to talk about money,” Francis said. Quoting Saint Basil the Great, the Pope said: “Money is the dung of the devil! When money becomes an idol, it rules over a person’s choices. And then it ruins a person and condemns him, turning him into a slave.”
The Pope called for “creative imagination” to find new methods, attitudes and tools to combat the “culture of waste,” in which the world is immersed, “fueled by the powers that govern the economic and financial policies of the globalized world, whose center is the god of money.”
This isn’t the first time that Francis has resorted to a scatological illusion to denounce the evils of mammon. In a homily given in September 2013, the Pope used the same expression to decry wealth....
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If your really thought it is was devils dung.. you would tell people to just burn it....
You don't spread the works of the devil around.. your don't “donate” the works of the devil in the collection plate... you destroy it...
So is that what I'm being told burn this devil dung I have in my possession???...
Because it sure seem the people that trash money the most... sure seem to want people to give them that same trash money
Workers in plastics factories, machine shops, print shops, carton factories, etc. find work because of objects such as that one, not to mention workers at ad agencies, web design agencies, server farms to host the websites, magazines displaying ads for them, etc.
Gotta agree. When is the filthy-rich Church going to sell off all those schools and hospitals and stop with the medical missions and do something for the poor?
Nothing much. The point is the principle.
Destroying those who create wealth permanently ruins new creativity and incentive.
What would that accomplish?
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