Posted on 12/03/2013 12:17:10 PM PST by eliperl
This is why I am distressed by the recent 84 page apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis. Some of what he says is insightful and of great value to us all. But much of it shows a complete blindness to economic and social history, and no understanding of the dynamics of either. He is seeking a Utopian dream instead of advocating capitalism, the only path for the material betterment of mankind.
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He’s Argentinian.
He is seeking a Utopian dream instead of advocating capitalism...
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I don’t think so. I think he is seeking to evangelize and show that Christ’s way is the best way. There is no such thing as a perfect economic/political system due to sin.
Capitalism is certainly the best system to date in world history that allows immense individual freedom...but it has its imperfections too. One could say that the great freedom and growth we have known here in the United States is not something that has been similarly known in Latin America. Also, capitalism can be seen as a system that warped into a ultra materialistic culture here in the USA.
Without having God as our focus...NO system really promotes good in the way it should.
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