Here it is -- where God tells the rich fool that he will die that night....so much for being greedy.
Luke, chapter 12
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CHAPTER 12
13* Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”
14He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”h
15Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”i
16Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest.
17He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’
18And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods
19j and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’k
20But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’
21Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”*
And yet not once did Jesus deal with Financial Institutions or governments.
His message was to the individual.
The verses are about greed and storing up wealth. They don’t address comparative economic systems, which Pope Francis does.
Pope Francis is proposing a type of financial system which has only brought death and misery to the world.
A centrally controlled system will not alleviate hungry nor prevent greed. It will only crush the human spirit under the boots of the elite.
A recent example of the folly of Pope Francis’s misunderstanding is the mercurial rise in the price of corn which caused great hardship throughout the poor nations of the world. That was the direct result of the government elites interfering in the market—for our own good!—and mandating the inclusion of methanol in motor fuel.
It is easy to defame the people who have produced the unbelievable wealth and prosperity the world has experienced in the past century on the grounds that they did so for their own financial gain, but until you come up with a system that comes close to the success of capitalism, uncharitable calumny only exposes economic ignorance.
An analogy would be to criticize the inefficiencies of local ambulance services, and suggest that all dispatching of paramedics around the world be directed in Brussels.