Posted on 07/12/2015 5:42:06 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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My friend and colleague (and someone I truly admire) Cliff Kincaid has done excellent research into Pope Francis and his doings. Americans need to take note who has the ear of this Pope:
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the American idea of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
Sachs takes aim at the phrase from Americas founding document, the United States Declaration of Independence, that We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
These rights sound good, Sachs writes, but theyre not enough to guarantee the outcome the global elites have devised for us. Global government, he suggests, must make us live our lives according to international standards of development.
and later
In an interview in the Catholic Magazine Famiglia Cristiana, Peres also called for the Pope to lead the inter-religious organization in order to curb terrorism: What we need is an organization of United Religions
as the best way to combat terrorists who kill in the name of faith.
Hammers are still useful. Sicyles not so much.
Agenda 21
Sachs is putting forth that the UN should be in charge of all national and individual rights. That we have to sacrifice our individual rights for the greater, collective good.
Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can always be counted on to pontificate endlessly on such topics as income inequality and global health. This time, writing in a Catholic publication, he may have gone off his rocker, revealing the real global game plan.
In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
“The Pope is offering the masses the opium of Marxism in his stances.”
Which Marxist stance?
His preaching of God and Jesus Christ?
His condemnation of atheism in his new encyclical?
His multiple condemnations of abortion?
His condemnation of gender theory, gay marriage, and the State’s attempt to redefine marriage and usurp the family?
His multiple condemnations of dropping certain passages of the Gospel because they conflict with one’s “ideology”?
It’s such lazy thinking to say the defense of the poor and crying out for them makes one a Communist or a Socialist. To say nothing of a total departure from the Christian tradition of reaching out to the needy.
If one wants to debate Francis’ words on the role of government or on the religions and nations banding together informally, that’s a legitimate debate. But I’m not gonna waste my time on something that speculates he’s a Marxist.
When the Clintons tried top push their poisonous anti-family agenda through a UN conference in 1995, Pope John Paul II reached out to the Muslim countries asking them to band together with Christian countries to thwart the agenda. It worked for then. It didn’t mean he was for a one world government.
The pope in Martin Luther’s day used the same line: Luther should not attack the corrupt Catholic Chuch because Christians had to be united to repel the Muslims who were on the march in Europe or Christianity would perish. Luther refused, saying that God would defend His Church, and He did. There is never a good reason to make a bad deal, something Kerry and Obama and this pope should know.
As you said, you didn’t read the article.
And it showed.
From the article: author points out the terms and gives a link to clarify definition of Liberation Theology. (Christianized Marxism)
Since becoming Pope, he has made major strides in bringing Liberation Theology to the fore in the Vatican. Thus, his campaigning for massive social and political change. This is Christianized Marxism. The irony of that term has to be savored. Kind of like therapeutic cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
Liberation theology has been described as “an interpretation of Christian faith out of the experience of the poor an attempt to read the Bible and key Christian doctrines with the eyes of the poor”,[1] or “the message of the gospels”, restored from “the first three centuries [of Christianity in which] it was...a pacifist...religion of the poor.”[2] Detractors have called it Christianized Marxism.[3]
PFL
Open your eyes and see what’s right in front of you, and put aside your straw man redirects.
God shows us plainly. This dictators handed the pope a blasphemous take on the crucifix. The DNC in 2012 rejected God - three times— at their convention. Christians are enduring flagrant persecution in the U.S. — it is hard to figure out only for the willfully blind.
Just a modern day Communist, not a true Marxist. If he was a real one he’d sell the Vatican and give the money to the poor. $12 Billion dollars would help alot of poor people for a couple of months. The Vatican could house a few thousand homeless too.
And Extract from the article, which I read in its entirety:
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the American idea of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can always be counted on to pontificate endlessly on such topics as income inequality and global health. This time, writing in a Catholic publication, he may have gone off his rocker, revealing the real global game plan.
The United States, Sachs writes in the Jesuit publication America, is a society in thrall to the idea of unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the urgent core of Francis message will be to challenge this American idea by proclaiming that the path to happiness lies not solely or mainly through the defense of rights but through the exercise of virtues, most notably justice and charity.
In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.
It is coming sooner than later whether we like it or not. It is just a matter of time and what generation sees the complete transformation to tyranny.
This pope is a disgrace and must resign. The church is not a democracy and allows no dissent, so you will hear very little criticism of him from within.
He is a Marxist first, then pope, then catholic.
The one where he condemns unfettered human greed. This conflicts with the gospel of Ayn Rand. Those who follow her as a prophet see greed as a virtue. Money is their god, "capitalism" is the saviour of the world. Anyone who objects to this is a "communist" according to them.
The Pope is a ‘Peronist’. An admirer of Juan Perón a
Argentinian military strong man that nationalized all foreign industries, printed money and pretty much ruined the country...
...but he had good intentions.
Their will be an Antichrist ... and there will be false prophets in the end time...
did you really think Satan would not attack and infiltrate the church in the end....
We have already seen a false America arise with a false American at its head
A false Christ needs a false Church with a false Pope these things have been foretold
Now they are here, see it for what it is..
open your eyes and your heart ...you know what true ...so you can see what's false
Satan will attack and conquer the strong points of the faith to prep the way for the Antichrist....
every institution.. everything that was good will have a false leader put in place in the end time
this is the preparation of the way for the Antichrist ...don't be blind to it
Did he get his cocaine yet?
Clearly the Pope is not a Marxist. It’s just that he keeps borrowing Chavez’s sermons.
So, where are his condemnations of unfettered state power and collectivism?
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