Pope Francis Ramps Up His War On Capitalism In Advance Of U.S. Visit

by JASmius



Yep, that's right, folks, time for some more "Catholic-bashing":

Pope Francis is denouncing a global labor market that is interested only in profit and warning that unemployment causes enormous damage to society and families.

Francis has been speaking out for months about different aspects of family life during his weekly general audiences at the Vatican. On Wednesday, he focused on the "sacred" role that work provides families, materially and spiritually.

He said: "The modern organization of work often shows a dangerous tendency to consider the family a weight, a passive obstacle to productivity. But let us ask ourselves: What kind of productivity? For whom?"

For stockholders, actually.  Whom the management of companies do work, after all, and the advancement of whose financial interests it is their job to look after and carry out - i.e. it's their money, not entitled to flow into Francis's collection plates.  Employment is merely a byproduct of that perfectly valid arrangement, a commodity to be bought and sold no different from raw materials or any other factor that goes into manufacturing, whether of tangible or intangible products.

And given that I, myself, have been unemployed (at least in a paying sense) for 101 of the past 102 weeks, I've got more than enough moral authority to put behind my words.

Jobs, in short, are not entitlements any more than any other kind of money grows on trees.  What they are is yet another facet of why capitalism is good for the world, good for society, and has done more to lift human civilization out of the metaphorical and literal muck than any other factor (along with constitutionalism and the individual liberties it has made possible) in the history of life on this planet.

And yet Francis is coming here next month to lecture Congress and the state-mandated unemployed, impoverished American people on how Obamanomics isn't just a superior philosophy and system of economic governance, but a moral obligation as well.

Meanwhile, what did the LORD Jesus Christ have to say about this topic?:

Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said.  And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.  Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?”  But Jesus perceived their malice, and said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?  Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.  And He said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”  They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”  And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.

And in what is supposed to be a constitutional federal republic, it is We the People through our States and elected representatives, who are the rightful final arbiters of what is "Caeser's" and what remains our own.

Put another way, it ain't "Catholic-bashing" if the Pope ain't really Catholic.