The Lefts Pope (Pipe) Dream

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"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" - Pope Francis (Evangelii Guadium)

Pope Francis on Income Inequality. Can you believe this guy?

 

[Harry Dresden]

"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" - Pope Francis (Evangelii Guadium)

Pope Francis on Income Inequality. Can you believe this guy?

so tell him to give up some of that gold and silver in the Vatican.....that might make a difference in some homeless peoples lives...just sayin....

 

[Jarhead]

Hey....look around you. Disaster after disaster and what do you hear about? People helping people. Stories of generosity; heroism; philanthropy;....

We do share the wealth.

Here in the US, we give more to international disasters PRIVATELY than all countries combined.

We don't need the government to force us to be generous.

We are by nature.

Curious.....when was the last time some poor person who spent their food stamps on food turned to some rich guy and thanked him?

But who do they thank?

Obama. The democrats.

Think about it.

 

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Curious.....when was the last time some poor person who spent their food stamps on food turned to some rich guy and thanked him?

This is how deep the bullshit runs

 

[NYcarbineer]

Hey....look around you. Disaster after disaster and what do you hear about? People helping people. Stories of generosity; heroism; philanthropy;....

We do share the wealth.

Here in the US, we give more to international disasters PRIVATELY than all countries combined.

We don't need the government to force us to be generous.

We are by nature.

Curious.....when was the last time some poor person who spent their food stamps on food turned to some rich guy and thanked him?

But who do they thank?

Obama. The democrats.

Think about it.

They thank the people who DON"T want to cut the food stamp program, or Medicaid, or aid to education,

etc., etc., etc.

 

[NYcarbineer]

How long before the Right starts calling Pope Francis a

Christian in Name Only?

lol, he said capitalism is the new tyranny.

 

[Black_Label]

How long before the Right starts calling Pope Francis a

Christian in Name Only?

lol, he said capitalism is the new tyranny.

They already have, Palin trashed him for having "A liberal agenda"

 

[occupied]

Just goes to show that if Jesus were to come back the christian right would waste no time nailing him to a cross.

 

[boilermaker55]

Jesus at the Temple

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal." (Matthew 6:19-20 RSV)
ONE MORE TIME:
Mark 11:15 (NIV) On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: `My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it `a den of robbers.'" 18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

Now ask who is "CHRISTIAN IN NAME ONLY"

Just goes to show that if Jesus were to come back the christian right would waste no time nailing him to a cross.

 

[The Rabbi]

Capitalism and market economics have elevated man's economic status more in 300 years than the Catholic Church has in 2000.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Doesn't take much for the right to go off on someone eh?

Big tent party open to ideas that's today's Republic party

 

[The Rabbi]

Doesn't take much for the right to go off on someone eh?

Big tent party open to ideas that's today's Republic party

I dont think the Pope is running for any office in the U.S. Or is even registered to vote here.

 

[NYcarbineer]

How long before the Right starts calling Pope Francis a

Christian in Name Only?

lol, he said capitalism is the new tyranny.

They already have, Palin trashed him for having "A liberal agenda"

The Right has a new anti-liberal slur to add to their arsenal...


...Papist!

btw, the 'nuts don't seem too keen to comment in your thread. lol

 

[Contumacious]

"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" - Pope Francis (Evangelii Guadium)

Pope Francis on Income Inequality. Can you believe this guy?

Here in the US we work until July to pay for the welfare/warfare state. So he wasn't talking about the US , that's for sure.

 

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Doesn't take much for the right to go off on someone eh?

Big tent party open to ideas that's today's Republic party

I dont think the Pope is running for any office in the U.S. Or is even registered to vote here.

Really? Try to make your deflections and zero contribution a little more hidden next time

 

[The Rabbi]

Doesn't take much for the right to go off on someone eh?

Big tent party open to ideas that's today's Republic party

I dont think the Pope is running for any office in the U.S. Or is even registered to vote here.

Really? Try to make your deflections and zero contribution a little more hidden next time

You make a point about the GOP and how the Pope doesn't fit in and then complain about deflection? Phooey.

 

[Darkwind]

"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" - Pope Francis (Evangelii Guadium)

Pope Francis on Income Inequality. Can you believe this guy?

Wonderful message.



I'm not Catholic so I'll pass.

Oh, and just in case you missed it, the phrase "I'm not Catholic" means that I don't agree that the church is the right venue for secular issues.

Intentional misuse and misleading positions are not reasons for God not to love you, however. So God bless.

 

[Mr Natural]

How long before the Right starts calling Pope Francis a

Christian in Name Only?

lol, he said capitalism is the new tyranny.

Or a communist?

 

[WillReadmore]

"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?" - Pope Francis (Evangelii Guadium)

and

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting…. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules.

We just might have a real Pope this time!

Religious fundamentalists in the US have been worried about the wrong problems.

And, we have a whole political party dedicated to the principle that it's better to have the government focused on helping the wealthy get wealthier and NOT on helping those in desperate circumstance.

Maybe this Pope will help us redirect our efforts.

 

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I think some on the left don't seem to understand the difference between voluntarily giving to and aiding the poor and empowering a government to rob you against your will and give it to themselves.