Posted on 05/19/2015 7:18:43 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The people (seems less so each day) of U.S.A. have outmoded ideas of individual liberty and economic freedom that must be discarded... so we (and mainly our wealth) can join (surrender) the world collective. Global autocrat overlords will then redistribute wealth fairly to all (themselves first of course!). Fair??? Or totalitarian rule by the hyper 1%?
“From each according to their means (you DON’T OWN what you produce!)... to each according to their needs” (You DON’T get to DECIDE your “needs”... that will be done for you, by those who know “best”!)
We need to get out of the United Nations. Their crazy ideas to impoverish America won’t last long when THEY(All of the Communist Countries and Dictatorships who hate us) have to foot the bill. WHY do we pay almost a quarter of the U.N. expenses when we are just paying for our own demise?
The path to happiness may indeed lie through justice and charity, but the Christian tradition is that making things like “charity” compulsory ... isn’t really charity.
What the Declaration of independence and Constitution do is enshrine the ability of the individual to make such choices for themselves. Which is very much in keeping with the New Testament and Christ’s teachings on how to reach Salvation.
I don’t like commies, whether he decks out in a dress and calls himself “Pope” or whether he claims intellectual and moral superiority to give himself more rights than me, demand that I submit to his views, and hand over my assets. The US is NOT creating most of the problems of so-called “sustainability” of this world. The Pope and this clown are nothing more than con artists trying to coerce us into a life of slavery.
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate, because his power consists only in outward force; but true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.
Call it what you will, they are behind schedule and pushing hard for Global Totalitarianism.
.... These rights sound good, but theyre not enough to guarantee the outcome the global elites have devised for us....
North Korea is the benchmark for these ‘global elite’ fascists.
Just another ignorant jackass.
*comment cannot be posted due to graphic content, viewer discretion is advised* -and the horse he rode in on with a splintered telephone pole!
The Pope is a leftist leader of an entirely false religion. FUPF.
It seems to me it is the Opium of the “Intellectuals” we have to fear. Raymond Aron said it best, “The Opium of the Intellectuals in postwar France was Marxism.” This “Pope” is totally opposed to the freedom loving John Paul II. He needs to be made aware that America does not welcome his ideas. Sachs needs to be discredited.
"'. . . path to happiness lies not solely or mainly through the defense of rights but through the exercise of virtues, most notably justice and charity.
All of which, in the founding view, were best achieved by individuals, acting freely, and not by some coercively imposed collective vision of the meaning of "justice" and "charity."
Thomas Jefferson, that former President the Left loves to quote when they try to exclude references to "God" from the public square, wrote extensively about the superiority of the philosophy of Jesus, but we never hear about that from the Left.
The same Jefferson who penned our Declaration of Independence wrote that Jesus "preached philanthropy and universal charity and benevolence," that "a system of morals is presented to us [by Jesus], which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man."
He wrote, "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids" which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."
Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."
That Jefferson cut out the statements which could be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and read from them daily, attests to the fact that his political philosphy may have been influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.
It is unlikely that any person alive today, including the current President, has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As Jefferson stated it, "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."
Jefferson seemed to understand that the philosophy capsulated in those ideas has the power to make people in a society more benevolent, more loving, more caring, and more willing to take care of each other voluntarily.
There is a sharp contrast between a philosophy of love exercised freely by citizens in a society, and the politics of hate which motivate those who utilize semantic tricks to spout platitudes in order to gain and accumulate power to themselves over their fellow human beings.
A “climate change encyclical?”
This is a bit too much of Church combining with State for me.
It’s one thing to foster charity, it’s another thing to make slaves of the productive in the name of Gaia.
The Pope has to be out of his depth here, scientifically speaking.
Jeffrey Sachs is merely another low-level writer attempting to raise ideas that he and the left want people to believe. In other words, he simply perverts the truth.
Be aware and awake people! Jeffery, groups of pseudo-academics, and the so-called journalists of our time all seem to be working together to promote a huge concert of misinformation. They are that desperate for approval! They blatantly attempt the use of bandwagon technique to persuade.
What a shame that we have a large segment of the citizenry that is so GULLIBLE!!!!
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I’ll get the tree.
I’ll add this: if Francis decides to come here and really promote this line of thinking, I think it’s going to be a HUGE strategic mistake on his part.
Many American Catholics are already ignoring RCC teachings, doctrine, dogma on a whole host of issues related to individual choice, liberty and freedom (like birth control). I’m not sure the best way to put the brakes on that, let alone convince them to come back into any sort of compliance, is to advocate for more collectivism where the Church and Government are working/orcestrating in concert. Particularly on the enforcement end.
I don't particularly care for Jeffrey Sachs, or his opinions.
5.56mm
I dont believe his claims.
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....which demonstrates that your intelligence quotient is above average for these days.
:-)
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