And if my mother had married Sam Snead I would be someone else.
Of course because you don’t understand Christ then that’s not coherent enough for you.
Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity is indeed beyond my comprehension, but He is not absurd. As for you, do you understand what socialism is? Socialism is not charity. Socialism is planned poverty. My Catholic wife who fled here from the communists in the socialist paradise of Poland said she used to hear people say, "socialism is where we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."
And if you think charity is something obtained by coercion at the barrel of a gun then you don't know what charity is either.
Cordially,
My Catholic wife who fled here from the communists in the socialist paradise of Poland said she used to hear people say, “socialism is where we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
And if you think charity is something obtained by coercion at the barrel of a gun then you don’t know what charity is either.
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INDEED.
THANKS.
Your confusing reality with ideals. First Christ said it was ok to be poor.. he also said it was ok to be rich. The most important thing was that you lived with his ideals.
The Pope has an idea that everyone should work on not “pretending to work”. I never said it would work in reality. But you have to understand the ideals behind it and that Pope is asking people to move towards those ideals.
That would indeed save more people from Hell by moving more people towards Christ’s ideals.
You are so jaded by reality it’s people like you who don’t understand “ideals” that tend to be the people to follow the crowd. “I must lie to get this job.” “If I don’t make this money anyway I can I can live the way I want.”
I don’t think it’s wrong to encourage people not to chase the money dream. If that means socialism so be it. And again for the 3rd time. The Pope’s only agenda is to encourage people to live to Christ’s ideals... not encourage America or any other country to be the best in the world or the richest in the world.
If you expect him to do anything other than that you are just silly.