Posted on 02/28/2015 11:15:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his address to the Italian Confederation of Cooperatives Saturday, Pope Francis employed muscular language in speaking about money — while acknowledging its importance to business. “Money,” he said, “is the devil’s dung.”
“It is not easy to talk about money,” Francis said. Quoting Saint Basil the Great, the Pope said: “Money is the dung of the devil! When money becomes an idol, it rules over a person’s choices. And then it ruins a person and condemns him, turning him into a slave.”
The Pope called for “creative imagination” to find new methods, attitudes and tools to combat the “culture of waste,” in which the world is immersed, “fueled by the powers that govern the economic and financial policies of the globalized world, whose center is the god of money.”
This isn’t the first time that Francis has resorted to a scatological illusion to denounce the evils of mammon. In a homily given in September 2013, the Pope used the same expression to decry wealth....
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Whatever. It’s just good for one to present their source material when making a statement, especially the statement which is accusatory. Otherwise, it’s whistling in the wind.
Do YOUR homework
Spoken from the vicar of the one true church ... you know ... the one with billions in assets all around the world.
If it’s so bad why do you want to take it from those who work and give it to indolent whiners?
How does that constitute backup for a major fiber-optic link? In any case, your post #27 states that “technology does not keep up the ‘old system’ for back-ups” (your exact words), so forgive me for thinking that you were talking about technology or something.
Wow! Has he told God yet?
Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
Deuteronomy 30:3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
Haggai 2:8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.
They don't divide their wealth among the laity, they take it from the laity. They are no different than Democrats.
It's my belief, since the 90s, that all charities have become arms of the Democratic Party. It's what helped get Frankin elected, money diverted from charity donations. Funny how no one went to prison for that. I think when you're at the store and they ask for a dollar to go to some charity, it's going straight to some dirty Democrat.
So, if we allow our church to become too worldly, if we do not fight that event, we will not be punished?
Sorry. I don’t believe in divine intervention. We were put on this earth for a reason and have the ability to promote or fight any good or evil. Indolence like your post suggests kills and tortures many people. It’s not “good.” If it’s part of your gospel, I suggest you think the matter through without counting beads.
Money is not the problem. It is the love of money more than people that is the problem.
Collectivists as a general rule hate man to the point of wanting to eliminate him from the planet, and love money much more. The biggest proponents of everything collectivist/Leftist are the wealthy. They financed Hitler, Mao, Stalin, et al.
How many conservatives do you know are wealthy?
Charlie Russell, Western Artist, did a nice little watercolor painting of two cowboys robbing a fat preacher.
The poem underneath was...
“If money’s the root of all evil,
Your Reverence is going to weed!
It’s the duty of a Saint, not a Sinner,
To shake out your clothes for the seed.”
Yet St Paul said it was “the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.” not money itself.
For example, a few years ago, my life was saved by the removal of a pituitary tumor. This was accomplished by an operation that relied on medical advances and surgical techniques and tools that did not exist when I was born. I call not dying in middle age a big plus.
Also, We are communicating via PCs and the Internet, which are also of recent invention. And call me spoiled, but I like big, flat screen TVs, cable with hundreds of channels, and cheap clothing and other goods from China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and other venues.
Living in a small sized city in the South, within a mile I have the choice of shopping at two standard grocery chains, or at two health food groceries that did not even exist as businesses when I was in college. In any event, food quality and selection is better today than it was when I was a boy.
Moreover, the Cold War is over -- won by the side of freedom. That too is a great boon to the US and the world.
Not all are “indolent whiners.” Jobs are tough to get for kids right out of college: try to get one when you’re “over the hill,” your health is failing, and you can’t think on your feet the way you used to. What about those who worked all their lives but have to wait, sometimes years, for help from the system they paid into while working? What about the elderly who, instead of being respected and admired, are looked upon by society as a burden, when they have so much to give?
Is there justice in a person spending $18,000 on a watch winder when so many people are homeless for all these reasons, and out in the cold? That could be any of us...
Yet the Apostle Paul warned about the “love of money” as the root of evil.
The "schools" charge a hefty tuition and try to get into a catholic hospital ( built and supported by local and state governments) without an insurance card..
There is so much wealth in the Vatican that alone would make it one of, if not, the richest organization in the world
And that was built with the money of the poor trying to buy their loved ones out of the flames of "purgatory "
Claiming that money is evil is a far jump from claiming THE LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
$15 billion distributed among the poorer half of the worlds population would be $5 each.
What would that accomplish?
You could have as easily put "giving lectures" in that sentence.
Nice.
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