Hey Working American Catholics!
Cut all tithes with Rome.
Productive capitalism creates the wealth that makes social justice and charity possible.
Cue the WTPRM (What the Pope Really Meant) crowd in 3...2...1...
Mr. Speaker, people on all levels of income are better off than they were in 1979. The hon. Gentleman is saying that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That way one will never create the wealth for better social services, as we have. What a policy. Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided that the rich were less rich.
Good post. Thanks!
I meet very few South Americans of any stripe who don’t accept the basic Marxist tenets, in some form, of class struggle, vague collectivism, statism and central planning. I see the Pope is no different, he’s probably never thought about it - so no surprises there.
Spanish history was always one of top-down rule, from kings and their viceroys to fascists, communists and their statism and central planning. This authoritative, classist system was transferred to their colonies and they have stewed in it for 500 years. Very few South or Central Americans I meet understand individual liberty, the rights of the individual and his property, and free-market capitalism. These countries’ low-information voters greatly outnumber even our own here in the USA.
Its why the American left wants to import the lowest levels of these societies into the USA as quickly as possible.
A Catholic priest, bishop, or Pope....is only an expert at one thing...reading off the Bible scripture. Beyond that....they can’t tune carburetors,repair a leaking roof, lay bricks, herd cattle, run a flea market, or operate a pub. Any time they want to offer up advice on capitalism or the best time of year to plant corn, I wouldn’t waste much time with them.
Please give up the “my brand of Christianity is better than your brand” mantra that has become all too frequent here on FR. And don’t point fingers and claim one side started it or one side is worse than the other. You’re all equally guilty. We have bigger fish to fry right now, and quoting scripture to one another from the anonymous comfort of your keyboard is futile. This is a political site, and while religion and politics do intermingle, the religious arguments here turn it into something different.
If you want to bicker and argue over who is correct, please start your own site regrading Catholicism vs. Protestantism.
There is a continuum from anarchy to capitalism to socialism to communism. Under anarchy nobody owns anything. Under capitalism people who use property to create things of value for other people own the property they use. Under communism, the state owns everything, and whether anything of any value to anyone is produced is irrelevant.
Not this crap again. “Oil speculators don’t affect oil prices” has been debunked quite thoroughly here and elsewhere, so it can’t be ruled out for food prices.
The new pope:
capitalism sucks
islamics aren’t that bad
everyone goes to heaven
Did I miss anything?
Presbyterians just jumped the shark also, makes one wonder what is going on, with Catholics and Protestants.
I am a regular practicing Roman Catholic and I am amazed at how many fellow Catholics are completely ignorant on basic business as well as economic laws.
These folks are as unfamiliar with Henry Hazlitt, Milton Friedman or FA Hayek as they are with the Democrat Party (in which they cast their vote) that supports Abortion as well as homosexuality marriage.
To non-Catholics, trust me, their is a cold war simmering in the Catholic Church between the Conservatives and lefties.
“Science is the record of dead religions.” — Oscar Wilde
It makes sense that the Pope wouldn’t understand the workings of capitalism. And I say this as a Catholic. He sticks out an empty hand, and, as if by some miracle, returns it full of cash. If he were to understand that more money extorted from those filling his hand meant that his hand would remain empty, he might give his ideas further thought.
There has to be someone in Rome who can give Francis a clue.
This pope is an imbecile in a fancy dress.