Now - pay close attention,- comes paragraphs 53+ in which Francis really goes on the attack.
53.) Just as the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say "Though shalt not" to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.
We have previously discussed who are the biggest creators of inequality and will not repeat this argument. The Pontiff offers not one iota of proof regarding his claim that "such an economy kills."
The economy existing under a true Free Market Democracy has on the contrary contributed to longer and healthier life spans of its people. Every statistical analysis of demographic research shows this to be factual.
Then this "exhortation" really reaches the bottom of demagoguery by posing the following question:
"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?
A death, occurring in the above described circumstances is, in fact, usually reported, sometimes at great length, in the local media.
When, however, a person so dies in Vienna, it is not reported in Madrid, since it is obviously less news worthy there than a 2 point drop in the stock market which influences many hundreds of thousands of people from Vienna to Madrid and beyond, including many small investors who attempt to supplement their pension by a little income from a conservative investment in the stock market.
This "Evangelium" should have asked:
"Why is it possible for a homeless person to die from exposure when hundreds of Churches, Monasteries and Nunneries stand largely empty, rarely used, and could have provided temporary shelter until a lasting solution could be found.
The Pontiff goes on in paragraph 54:
"In this context, some people continue to defend the 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 naive trust in the goodness of those yielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.
The opinion that everybody, including the poor, in a free market system, benefits from such a freedom has "never been confirmed by the facts"....
Where have you been, Francis ?
In which pile of sand did you hide your head?
Living standards of every class of a free society have constantly improved, while every society in which the state exercised exclusive economic power has either disintegrated, (UdSSR)
or has introduced ever increasing free market conditions (China)
The poverty in many other countries where dictators reign, and true Free Market does not exist, is truly beyond description (Many African Nations)
When Francis speaks of Roman Catholicism he is likely dead on.
But when he condemns the Free Market under a Democracy and advocates more controls exercised by Governments he is out of his depth.
He is, however, clever: The subtelty of his message, his urgings for Governments to move to his side of the political spectrum, the Left, is unmistakable throughout.
If you want to know more about the
Evangelii Gaudium
go, read it, it's on the Internet
because Bertstravels has grown a little sick of it.
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