[Pyro7480]

Thanks for the support. I'm just getting sick of some people who always have their "free market blinders" on. They often senselessly attack people who look at the market in a moral fasion. It gets absurd at times.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[sinkspur]

I'm just getting sick of some people who always have their "free market blinders" on. They often senselessly attack people who look at the market in a moral fasion. It gets absurd at times.

When's the last time the Pope had anything good to say about the free market? I can't recall, it's been so long.

He's also been on an "anti-US" jag of late, what with his opposition to the war on Iraq, this tweaking of capitalism, and his feeble response to Castro's latest outrages with his "we will continue to pursue democracy in Cuba."

I really don't think John Paul is calling the shots any more; instead he's reading the rants of Euro cardinals who deplore the United States.

[A. Pole]

Thanks for the support. I'm just getting sick of some people who always have their "free market blinders" on. They often senselessly attack people who look at the market in a moral fasion. It gets absurd at times.

Free market fundies are cultists.

[B-Chan]

I see Oliver's Army is up and around today. The Pope's message is a plea for capitalism with a human face, nothing more -- and I agree with him. Any "progress" that considers people to be "human resources" instead of human beings isn't progress at all. The free market produces more wealth for more people than any other economic system every conceived, but to say that there should be no restrictions on economic activity is to deny the existence of the common good -- a very unchristian (and inhuman) idea.

Just ignore the Jack Chick fans. Chick is a marketing genius and a powerful propagandist, but a theologian he ain't, and neither are his disciples. Don't worry -- the Church survived Arianism, Dontasim, Caesaropapism. Monophytism, Iconoclasm, Waldensianism, Catharism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Jansenism, Darwinism, Socialism, Fascism and Modernism -- it'll survive Protestantism, too. Five hundred years from now, when there are 200,000 Protestant "denominations" out there, each with its own version of the Gospel -- the good old Catholic Church will still be there, going to bat for the sanctity and dignity of human life and swinging for the bleachers.