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Now the Pope lectures us on economics. Perhaps next he will lecture us on how many moons revolve around Jupiter.

Spain, with 21 percent unemployment, doesn’t have enough socialism? My goodness, does he want 40 percent unemployment?

Even the expression “profits at all cost” makes no sense. Profits only comes from cost be low relative to benefit, not from cost being high.

Perhaps next he will lecture us on how many moons revolve around Jupiter.

And he would be better qualified to do so, than say... young earth creationists?

The vatican after all has its own astrophysisits and has contributed much to cosmology and science in general.

The reason catholicism is consider an “acceptible” faith is because it learned it’s place long ago.

The unspoken deal is that these “acceptible” faiths are allowed to exist and take their cut as long as they don’t step on the toes of the state.

Kind of like 2 rival mafia families. “There’s enough here for everybody if we work together”.

Hence the problematic nature of Islam today. It doesn’t want to recognize existing governments. It’s “getting too big for its britches”, so to speak.

The ideal solution for the state is to co-opt it. But so far that’s been difficult.

No matter. There are plenty of christians and jews available to fight it.

And so it goes...

There is a certain kind of capitalism that is no better than socialism, for it treats men no more than instruments of production. IAC. Henbrews 13, has in a niutshell what the Holy Father is preaching: Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those in prison, as thoiugh in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since your are also in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled. For God will judge the immoral and the idolotrous.Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, I will never fail or forsake you. Hence we can confidently say, The Lord is my helperI Will not be afraid. what can man do to me.

With regard to economics, it is not that man should not strive, for he who will not work shall not eat, but that the means to an end will often escape him, and he must try to see in perfect clarity the ways things really are, and trust that the Lord will provide.