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To: usconservative

I am catholic and I stand with you on your post. This Pope should lead by example.


48 posted on 05/12/2014 10:33:10 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: No Surrender No Retreat

OK, let’s liquidate the Church. Then what?


49 posted on 05/12/2014 10:34:14 AM PDT by defconw (Well now what?)
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To: No Surrender No Retreat
OK, Pal. This ain't what one might call "sophisticated financial thinking."

We sell every last church piece'o'real estate, large and small, every fresco, statue, monstrance, candlestick, gold-brocade vestment, organ, pyx, chalice, platen, altar cloth, reliquary (relic included), gem-encrusted miter, crozier, buckled velvet slipper, bishop's ring, pectoral ... sell it all. Give it to the poor.

Sotheby's to handle.

Buy every poor man, woman, and child a really nice ham sandwich.

Then what? Hate to break this to you, but churches operate like businesses. To help the poor, which is a primary mission, they have to (a) exist, and (b) have operating capital, facilities, and budgets, just like any other welfare agency.

Next time, you're in a richly artistic church, drop a few into the poor box, or better yet, write a check to the pastor, or an organization he might recommend.

Same principle: Confiscate every last cent of every last millionaire and billionaire in the US. You wind up with enough cash to operate the Federal Government for 25 minutes.

63 posted on 05/12/2014 10:49:03 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Take congress in 2014. Have a Constitutional Convention of the States. Save the Republic.)
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