Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Farrell: "Pope Francis is clearly at war with capitalism."

Paul Farrell writes:

Yes, Pope Francis is officially a rock star. First pope ever on a Rolling Stone cover. Already Person of the Year for Time. Plus a CNN poll says 88% of Americans approve of Pope Francis[...]

Long term, Rolling Stone is a huge warning to conservatives: “Pope Francis: The Times are A-Changin:’ Inside the pope’s gentle revolution.” This war conservatives will lose. A groundswell is building for Pope Francis’ army of 1.2 billion. History is on the side of his anticapitalist revolution[...]

 the Rock-Star Pope is a new global creative-destruction force, the ignition trigger in a revolution that conservative ideology will deny to the bitter end, while Francis inspires and builds his power base[...]

Pope Francis is clearly at war with capitalism. His manifesto is clear: The source of global inequality is capitalism: “Inequality is the root of social ills ... as long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”

Get it? Reject capitalism is his battle cry. Elizabeth Dias reported from Rio: “More than one million people came to hear him preach last night at Copacabana Beach.” Like at a new Woodstock. The Rock-Star Pope was in sync with the masses.

Indeed, “the optics themselves were far more like a theatrical evangelical set-up than a traditional Vatican mass. Francis arrived by helicopter. Blue and pink lights flooded an enormous stage. A giant cross, without a Christ’s body, hung front and center. Cheering “El Papa Francisco!”

32 comments:

  1. The Catholics who listen to this moron are complete fools.

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    1. its the the sound of the Church giving up on some stuff. hoping to save its ass. but its too late for it in the West.

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    2. Religious people tend to be morons so you are probably right.

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    3. Jerry calling people morons because of their faith!

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    4. "Religious people tend to be morons so you are probably right."

      I thought Progressives hated stereotypes?

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    5. You can say the same of most economists Jerry.

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    6. Especially the believers in the State Almighty like our resident troll, JW.

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    7. "You can say the same of most economists Jerry."

      Yup. I'd venture to say that's true of most people period. They just don't bother to think. Some of them are lazy. Some of them are stubborn. Ans some of them are just plain stupid.

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  2. Just remember he's from Argentina. 'Nuff said!

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  3. Vicarius Filii Dei. Perhaps these are the end of times and the beast is upon us. LOL I say we start with liquidating the Catholic churches real-estate empire and distributing it to the poor.

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    1. very well said; typically the very ordinary teacher- priest that italian school made me listen to, not by choice but by state/church choice in the '80 after asking us, the lazy unreligious students to be interactive proposing eventually our anticonformist point of view to the whole class so to discuss on a common plane hided himself in a monstrous hypocrital silence when as usual i cornered him into beginning from explaining, how this so determined Church to redeem herself from so many sins of her Past (extraordinary material richness kept in the Vatican while preaching stay poor be happy don't worry, extraordinary atrocities committed in the name of popes during Middle Age bc they were so interested in the material power gotten propagandizing the name of Dear Jesus ...) would really want to give me the example being me completely unrespectful and disturbed but Jesus advocates that didn't want and couldn't give they own true living priest example.

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  4. Good thing we have a rigid separation of church and state in the United States.

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    1. Unfortunately The State itself is a form of religion which isn't rigidly separated from anything.

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    2. Brother Thomas.....BINGO. Isn't it funny how they are so blind that they can't even see that they've made the state into a god?

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    3. Except that DEMOCRAT Joe Biden has already criticized someone for criticizing the Pope.
      In other words, Democrats like to cozy up to the church as long as the church gives a progressive message. Statists don't care about the separation of church and state just as they don't care about constitutional restraint.

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  5. paoweb.com/sn090109.htm

    Your world cries out for something completely different. A global 'quiet revolution' is imperative. Your social scientists have now come to the conclusion that capitalism, as presently constituted, is not the answer. You require a global move into universal prosperity, followed swiftly by the introduction of now-suppressed technologies.

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  6. Has he called for the church to divest itself of all worldly goods to support the poor? Maybe all the real estate holdings. How about selling all the fancy trimmings at the Vatican and giving to the less fortunate. Or does socialism only apply to mean ole Republican type business owners?

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  7. Either Paul Farrell is lying about capitalism,conservativism,Ann Ryand ,Paul Ryan, and the GOP or his level of intelligence is at the same level as his disjointed,comma splicing article .(about 7th grade US government school).
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    Be that as it may, the beauty of the Pope and the pope's God is that they can not (presently) FORCE people to do anything.
    Unlike Paul Farrell's god ,the violent and utterly evil State, .....the Pope is relatively harmless.

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  8. Not the first fool we've had as Pope and surely not the last. Good thing he loves the poor, because with socialism we're going to have a whole lot more of them.

    I was REALLY spoiled by the last two Popes.

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    1. He certainly seems to be waging a war on prosperity.

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    2. At least you have enough sense not to listen to him.

      Sorry BJ but this guy is complete idiot when it comes to economics. "Good intentions" are pointless if the ideas suck.

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  9. That's what you get with cults, where people are treated as leaders just for their positions, and blindly worshipped by most.

    I know i'm atheist and deliberately know little to nothing about most aspects of organized religion, but i don't think i'll ever understand why people who believe in god take all that pope crap so seriously. Simply believing in god and reading the Bible isn't enough for them? They have to worship some guy in a robe with a big silly hat on?
    And look at them now, millions upon millions taking the words seriously of some ignoramus just because he wears said big silly hat.

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    1. You're right. You know little to nothing about it. You should have stopped there.

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    2. You hit the nail on the head Tony. People worship the office of the president of the U.S. the same way.

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    3. he's quite right to ask though, the robe and the silly hat came about because that was high fashion at the time. and the pope crap came about because Rome had been the capital of the Roman empire and all that baggage and many Roman aristocrats bitter about competition came from Constantinople politically and many other Eastern cities in the eastern world had a much better claim to Jesus than Rome (apart from having a citizen who had only met Jesus in his dreams) the four books of the bible were picked from plenty of other writings because they had the most cohesive message and hence the most useful politically

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    4. @ Brother Thomas

      I am incredibly impressed with your response. Please tell me more about how wrong i am regarding the (generally) blind worship of the pope by catholics merely for his position. Is he God? Is he Jesus? No, he is just some guy appointed to be the leader in what is - at least partially - a cult of personality.
      Just ask Joe Biden. Doubting the pope is akin to "sinning". Whether YOU would agree with that or not, that is what many, if not most believers think.

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  10. Just a reminder that Pope Francis, whose statist views are loved by Time, was made "Person of the Year" to avoid giving the prize to the one person they know deserved it: Edward Snowden.

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  11. Funny how those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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  12. This Pope is more educated in truth than is any other single world 'leader' today. He isn't playing the arm chair intellectual guru.
    Everybody want's a claim to this guy.
    He's just getting started and if you really think the bizarre left is his home then you're just playing to form.

    Keep watching.

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    1. While I will agree that Pope Francis is very educated in general, he certainly does not speak the truth about economic matters. In fact, I would say that he is far too educated to be able to simply attribute his harmful economic statements to an accidental ignorance.

      If he truly cared about the well being of the poor and the downtrodden, he would forcefully advocate laissez faire capitalism. However, he proposes more of the very same mainstream interventionist policies that have been the cause of the suffering that he professes to lament. Clearly, he is prefers to promote interventionist policies more than he wishes to relieve the suffering of the poor. But why?

      Perhaps a clue can be found in this article, Pope: 'unjust' unemployment can mean sin, suicide, when Pope Francis admits that he "distrust(s) a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt."

      It seems to be more important to him that the well-to-do actually experience the pain of the poor than it is for the poor to actually be relieved of their suffering. I've read on these pages about Pathological Altruism, but Sadistic Altruism is a new one for me.

      There are probably some on the left that may want to march under that banner, but "everybody"? I don't think so.

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  13. On the article in Rolling Stone mag, The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ, said:

    “Unfortunately, the article disqualifies itself, falling into the usual mistake of a superficial journalism, which, in order to shed light on the positive aspects of Pope Francis, thinks it needs to describe the pontificate of Pope Benedict in a negative way, and does so with a surprising crudeness.” Fr Lombardi SJ adds, “This is not the way to do a good service even to Pope Francis, who knows very well what the Church owes to his predecessor.”


    source http://www.news.va/en/news/fr-lombardi-sj-on-rolling-stone-article

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