Posted on 07/07/2009 10:30:02 AM PDT by TheRiverNile
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.
Parts of the encyclical, titled "Charity in Truth," seemed bound to upset free marketeers because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to "thoroughly destructive" abuse of the system.
The pope said every economic decision had a moral consequence and called for "forms of redistribution" of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises.
Benedict said "there is an urgent need of a true world political authority" whose task would be "to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result."
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You are correct
I guess I did. Sorry.
Reggie,
You wrote:
“Uh oh! When one has no good answer the fall back position is “hatred of the Catholic Church”.”
Uh oh! When the anti-Catholic has no good defense from an accurate description he’ll claim the description is a tactic rather than a description.
Don’t know if you guys have seen this.Well worth a look.
Well,though I am not a "Protestant" nor "anti-catholic," I will give it a try:
Presume that Obama's plan continues apace: job losses, Obamacare, and global warming will lead to huge numbers of otherwise self-reliant people becoming dependent on government.
Then the inevitable hyperinflation caused by borrowing or printing tens of trillions of dollars will mean that nearly everybody will need a federal subsidy to buy even basic necessities (eventually, by printing new money on only on side of the paper, to save time and ink [see Wiemar Republic]).
With the Red Chinese waving bundles of worthless treasuries, Obama, in desperation turns to the oil sheiks. They, being Muslims, are prohibited from lending (just as Catholics used to be).
But, wait: Muslims can do tricks to lend money like "buy and lease back." Soon they own most Federal lands, since we can't make the lease payments. Then, they and the Chicoms and the UN decide to promulgate a "World Authority" to solve the crisis. Obama agrees (what else can he do?) and soon there is a new "Law Of the Land" treaty whereby the UN can Tax "wealthy" countries (like the former USA) and "redistribute" to the poor (keeping a little for admin costs).
Since the former US has nothing to take except worthless paper, they will take military equipment, instead. To be used by the blue helmeted child rapist armies, to keep "world order." In the "reformed UN," the US will have the same status and voting power as Zimbabwe.
But,wait! What about the "principle of subsidiarity?" Well, every village or neighborhood will have its own "local council" to solve its own problems, and refer those problems that they cannot solve to the next level, which in turn sends its insoluble problems to the next level. This system worked very well for Russia (village council=soviet).
Of course, the "New UN" would have "subsidiarity" as its guiding principle, even in its constitution, and would be required by law to follow this principle. It stands to reason that they would follow it completely, and keep world peace and protect everybody's rights, just like they do now.
DG
And my point, “Notice, no anti-Catholic Protestant here has had the acumen to even suggest what that framework would be in anything approaching concrete terms” remains. What you posted is not even remotely what Pope Benedict would support. Thanks for proving my point.
Do you then have any conception or idea that will keep my little scenario from playing out as stated? Or any scenario at all that could actually work?
Every would-be world ruler since Genghis Khan has been ruthlessly evil — murdering and enslaving millions. Why would anyone imagine that the next one would be different?
Do you think he will play nice of the Pope asks him nicely?
DG
Certainly.
Joya; TaraP;
Please remove
PatriotGirl827
from all levels of . . . THE END TIMES ping lists.
Thanks.
Alternate realities seem to abound.
That alternate reality thing strikes again! LOL.
It’s amazing the shocking
. . . awarenesses . . .
some folks are scheduling themselves for.
You’re welcome.
Honor to whom honor is due.
Much appreciate your perceptive comments.
It never did.
Some folks are just
deluded by . . . I guess . . .
all the
—hoopla
—pomp and circumstance
—political RELIGIOUS bureaucratic power mongers
—rubber Bible and rubber dictionary fact and word mangling
. . .
. . .
etc.
etc.
etc.
Will do!
Evidently a long string of recent Popes this century have been convincingly told how to play by the globalists’ script.
. . . the “or else’s” are quite plausible.
What an excellent and perceptive observation. I concur. It reads exactly like that. Evidently the RELIGIOUS serfs are not suppose to have very good sieves.
THESE JOKES
of yours
would be outrageously funny if they weren’t so sadly heretical, historically inaccurate, wholesale false etc.
Of course,
given their rubber dictionary and mindless group-think . . .
disagreement seems to ALWAYS = hate in their rubber dictionaries.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
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