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Sharing goods not communism but pure Christianity, pope says.
Crux ^ | April 11, 2021 | Ines San Martin

Posted on 04/11/2021 1:32:37 PM PDT by Marchmain

Pope Francis on Sunday argued that having received mercy, Jesus’ apostles became merciful themselves, sharing ownership over everything, calling such an arrangement “not communism, but pure Christianity.”

“The Acts of the Apostles relate that ‘no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.’ This is not communism, but pure Christianity,” he said.

The pope’s words came as he marked Divine Mercy Sunday in a Roman church dedicated to the devotion. Given COVID-19 restrictions, the Church of Santo Spirito was half empty, yet filled with a group of male and female prisoners from three local prisons, a migrant family from Argentina, refugees coming from Syria, Nigeria and Egypt, and religious sisters who work in a local hospital.

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TOPICS: Catholic; History; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antipope; bidenvoters; christianity; communism; fakechristian; fakechristianity; francischurch; hysteria; isthepopecatholic; marxist; panicporn; pope; popefrancis; redistribution; redpope; romancatholicism; satanism; socialism
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To: lurk

Yes. It’s not sharing when someone takes it by force.

Peach


21 posted on 04/11/2021 1:46:56 PM PDT by CarolinaPeach
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To: Marchmain

LOL If communism is an expression of Christian charity, why do all communist regimes start by outlawing Christianity?


22 posted on 04/11/2021 1:47:27 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Marchmain

Sharing implies that it is voluntary. Confiscation of goods is not sharing.


23 posted on 04/11/2021 1:48:16 PM PDT by Texan Tory (Laissez rouler les bons temps!)
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To: Texan Tory
Sharing implies that it is voluntary. Confiscation of goods is not sharing.

Excellent point. I can imagine telling that to a lib...they'll respond..."Wha?".
24 posted on 04/11/2021 1:49:55 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Marchmain

Being forced to share at the point of a gun (i.e. government mandate) is robbery.


25 posted on 04/11/2021 1:49:58 PM PDT by meadsjn (, )
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To: Marchmain

The Book of Acts describes what happened to the Christians in Jerusalem who tried “having everything in common.” They were always poor. William Bradford described the same result when the Pilgrims tried it. It didn’t work. They almost starved to death.

Micah 4:4 describes the Millennial Kingdom: “But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid; For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.”

Personal property is part of the Kingdom of God. Good enough for me.


26 posted on 04/11/2021 1:50:19 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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Hey Francine, it isn’t “sharing” if government mandates it “or else”.


27 posted on 04/11/2021 1:51:20 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: BenLurkin

Actually it was charity. Meaning voluntary both on a macro and an individual level, not government enforced, and for a specific time period to recipients known to be deserving. Nothing like what he’s trying to justify.


28 posted on 04/11/2021 1:53:25 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Marchmain

It works fine when everyone has nothing and asks for nothing.

If implemented on a large scale, the former is exactly what happens. The latter happens when folks need a laugh.


29 posted on 04/11/2021 1:53:30 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Marchmain

Obviously, Benedict was forced out and this wolf in sheep’s clothing was installed under Obama’s watch. This anti-Christian poop is selling communism and collective salvation just st as the creep Rev. Wright was.
This piece of globalist shit thinks he’s the religious leader of all faiths.
He’s a creep. Why doesn’t he give up all the gold in the Vatican?
What a hypocritical asshole.
He is the ANTI-POPE.


30 posted on 04/11/2021 1:54:29 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Marchmain

Comrade Pope should acknowledge the difference between “Sharing” and “Taking” ... seems like Comrade Pope is intellectually deficient.


31 posted on 04/11/2021 1:55:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Marchmain

When you are forced to share at the point of a gun, it’s communism and communism is evil. Someone needs to flush out their headgear.


32 posted on 04/11/2021 1:55:41 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Marchmain

Sharing is nice.
When required to share under threat of armed police and prison sentences, it is not charity.


33 posted on 04/11/2021 1:56:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Marchmain

The reading today.

The catechism is a good guide I often suggest this pontiff read it

Sharing is also in most English usage dictionary

If I make 79k per year, I give 30 percent to the government instead of my retirement savings and or my children’s school but borrow for that, and 10 k is given by tgat government to someone coming through the border illegally, unsponsored, carrying diseases for which I must Hurd for and against but he does not and he has no effort nor intent to give the goverment anything as much as a rudimentary learning of assimilation, respect for our laws, safety, people and plans to at least send any money obtained here back to his country of origin if he does not rape murder and steal from us, that is not sharing not by the OED definition not by the catechism not by the Bible and not by Jesus.

We all know this.


34 posted on 04/11/2021 1:57:14 PM PDT by stanne
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To: BenLurkin

it doesn’t even work on a small scale, the first lazy person who joins... it’s over.


35 posted on 04/11/2021 1:57:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Then they should share everything that is in the basements of the uhholy city, Vatican.


36 posted on 04/11/2021 1:58:49 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: Marchmain

Sure, if it’s of YOUR OWN FREE WILL!

Having the Jack boot of state put a gun to your head and tell you, you will: Not so much.


37 posted on 04/11/2021 1:59:27 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Marchmain

I noticed that Pope Che does not distinguish between voluntarily sharing and mandatory confiscation by the communist state that he is trying to build.


38 posted on 04/11/2021 2:00:21 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Marchmain

Another reason why I don’t like established religion.


39 posted on 04/11/2021 2:01:08 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: hanamizu
Actually, communism/socialism has never worked. The only instances where it has failed miserably are when it is instituted in existing economies where the economy is very strong, the population density is low,the system is very productive and the economy is strongly engaged in producing very valuable natural resources that can be easily harvested and sold abroad for hard currency.

These resources include oil, timber, minerals and fish.

Sweden is a perfect example of such a state .It's system worked well until it's people became decadent and lazy and began abusing the system

40 posted on 04/11/2021 2:01:12 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (e)
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