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To: marshmallow

The Pope should be talking about how greed, AND envy, and hatred, and the desire to covet, are all human weaknesses, and how no group of people has a lock on virtue. He should be talking about all of us trying to understand one another, and forgiving one another, instead of talking about specific socioeconomic issues that have multiple sides and no easy solutions.

Charity comes from the heart, and is a good work - particularly if done in private. Confiscation, irrespective of whether at the barrel of a gun or on the authority of government is theft, and neither honorable or defensible.


7 posted on 11/08/2018 6:28:23 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

“Confiscation, irrespective of whether at the barrel of a gun or on the authority of government....”


There isn’t very much difference between the two, except that the ladder one looks prettier at the beginning. However, if you fail to pay your taxes, the guys with the guns will definitely show up on your doorstep.


14 posted on 11/08/2018 6:36:06 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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