I feel like i'm in the middle ages all over again. The pope had this to say about the economic situation,
"...every economic decision had a moral consequence and called for "forms of redistribution" of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises.
"...there is an urgent need of a true world political authority" whose task would be "to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result."
Such an authority would have to be "regulated by law" and "would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights."
wow, didn't think that kind of talk would come out from the pope. I nominate the Catholic Church.
should the church be talking about such secular consepts such as the economy? Is this the indorsment that many people, like PM Brown (England), were looking for?
(A side note, there is always a war going on between security and LIBERTY. so everytime I see the word security, red flags fly up. When the word security is tied to the phrase 'security for all' i get in panic mode.)
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I want John Paul II back.
ReplyDeleteIsn't a universal leader one of the signs of the anticrhist? does that mean that Pope Douchebag XIV is ushering in the antichrist. hmmm....
i think that the pope making himself heard on economic issues has two possibilities, both of which lead to the conclusion that he shouldn't talk about politics.
1) people will listen to him because he is the pope. the pope is not a credible source on economics. he is a jesus scholar (i don't mean that because he is the pope, that is what he did before he became pope). But people might listen because he a leader in the church. But blind followers of the pope's agenda is not helping the situation.
2) people will not listen. in that case his voice is a waste of time and unnecessary.
I think the pope should stay out of economics, but because he has so much power and right now we don't want someone throwing out unsound ideas to a billion people.
ReplyDeletefor a long time I have felt that the church and the pope have been less important in world affairs. I did a paper on the church and their policies towards the Soviets and for the most part it wasn't that great, except in poland, but that was because the pope was polish more than the pope was the pope.
if i was the pope, i think i would focus right now on using the wealth of the church to help unemployed people. That would have the church involved in current events but not talking about econimic ideas.
maybe the pope is issueing the call for the antichrist, haha. I think protestants have their ears open more to this idea of the antichrist and one world government. protestants are very hyper sensitive to things such as "the mark of the beast", "one currency", "one government". the pope and catholics don't really think about that.
yeah, protestants are the lucky bearers of fundamentalists!
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