Leisure is an element of luxury. Yes, he lives the life of a public person, so that everything needed to carry out his duties is taken care of by those around him. His meals are simple—prepared by professional nuns.
But that’s not what you were saying. You were saying that the whole thing is a racket, providing those at the top with luxury, provided by the nickels and dimes of the abjectly poor.
I disagree with the core theses of Protestantism, but I don’t believe, and repeat, vicious slurs against Protestants. “Bigotry” is not the same as disagreement.
I don’t know what people are so upset about. I didn’t care what the pope said last year, and I don’t rea;;y care about what he said last week.
Are you saying that I think the Pope eats at the expense of the poor third worlders who support the expense of the Vatican?
If so, I won’t disagree with you.
The largest religious organizations are often the ones that give Christians a bad name.
Although we can make jokes about Baptists who won’t recognize each other going in an out of the liquor stores, and that they won’t make love in the shower lest anyone thinks that they’re dancing, we can’t lay the Inquisition or Crusades on them, now can we?
Read the Catholic Encyclopedia sometime to see some of the interesting hypocracies of the RC church.
And read the Bible sometime to discover that Mary wasn’t a virgin when Jesus was born, is dead, stone cold dead and does not pass on prayer requests, and is not an object for prayer and worship.
There is one God and one mediator between man and God the man Christ Jesus.
Continue burning candles, counting beads, praying to statues and dead people for it is all just different forms of idolatry.