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Pope Francis Responds to Rush Limbaugh: “Marxist Ideology Is Wrong”
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 12-15-2013 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 12/15/2013 12:21:00 PM PST by servo1969

In November Rush Limbaugh blasted Pope Francis for his anti-capitalist economic statements. Rush Limbaugh admitted being “befuddled” by the harsh words about “unfettered capitalism” released by Pope Francis.

“If it weren’t for capitalism I don’t know where the Catholic Church would be?” The Pope has gone beyond Catholicism here… This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the Pope.”

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Today Pope Francis responded saying, “The Marxist ideology is wrong.” But, then he went on to attack free-market “trickle-down” economics.

Via Vatican Insider:

Some of the passages in the “Evangelii Gaudium” attracted the criticism of ultraconservatives in the USA. As a Pope, what does it feel like to be called a “Marxist”?

“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”

The most striking part of the Exhortation was where it refers to an economy that “kills”…

“There is nothing in the Exhortation that cannot be found in the social Doctrine of the Church. I wasn’t speaking from a technical point of view, what I was trying to do was to give a picture of what is going on. The only specific quote I used was the one regarding the “trickle-down theories” which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and social inclusiveness in the world. The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefitting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger nothing ever comes out for the poor. This was the only reference to a specific theory. I was not, I repeat, speaking from a technical point of view but according to the Church’s social doctrine. This does not mean being a Marxist.”

Someone needs to send the Pope a book on economics. Even Democratic President John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, understood that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats.’


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: capitalism; francis; limbaugh; marxism; pope; popefrancis; romancatholicism; rush
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1 posted on 12/15/2013 12:21:00 PM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969
I will simply post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3uFUxMwA1w

2 posted on 12/15/2013 12:23:00 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: servo1969

Ha....Rush just expanded his audience by one Pope.


3 posted on 12/15/2013 12:23:22 PM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: servo1969

Rush will be unlistenable tomorrow. He’ll spend hours talking about how he doesn’t like talking about himself while playing cuts of people talking about himself. Now, we’ll get to hear him talk about the Pope talking about him while not talking about himself.


4 posted on 12/15/2013 12:25:52 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: servo1969
“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.”

I am sadden to read that


5 posted on 12/15/2013 12:27:09 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: servo1969

Ask this Pope Dope where the church donations come from.


6 posted on 12/15/2013 12:27:30 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana
Ask this Pope Dope where the church donations come from.

Karl Marx?

7 posted on 12/15/2013 12:28:41 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: servo1969

What good about any marxist?....

Unless you ignore the sedition, and treason to take over your existing government..
and ignore the totalitarian aspects of marxist/socialism that go together like oiled gears..

To even “BE” a Marxist shows you have nasty tendencies..
and are quite stupid historically.. economically and religiously..
Just BEING a marxist marks you as an evil son of a bitch..

Even IF you deny being a marxist while being a marxist like most do..
Roman Catholics having a STUPID Pope is not a good thing..


8 posted on 12/15/2013 12:29:09 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: servo1969
"The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefitting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger nothing ever comes out for the poor. This was the only reference to a specific theory. I was not, I repeat, speaking from a technical point of view but according to the Church’s social doctrine. This does not mean being a Marxist.”

So the church's social doctrine is not Marxist, but rather Occupy Wall Street?

9 posted on 12/15/2013 12:29:52 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: servo1969

A “Marxist” is a person who has studied Marx and his followers, including modern academic Marxists, and follows their teachings with full awareness of doing it. On the Internet, a fountain of worldly wisdom, “Marxist” is everyone who doesn’t agree with you, something like an “idiot”. In other words, “Marxism” is used as an ignorant insult by, uh, idiots.

Obama may be for all we know an unconscious Marxist, clueless dilettante Marxist, who we know admitted to associating with Marxists at the university.


10 posted on 12/15/2013 12:30:53 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

isn’t that a burger chain?


11 posted on 12/15/2013 12:31:31 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: raybbr

You’ve got his system down pat. He’ll also say he’s got ‘stacks and stacks’ or things to discuss, but still keep this one topic going for the first 90 minutes or more.
I’m glad he leaves that Snerdly off the mike more often here lately. “Snerdly” or whatever his name is, is embarrassing and tedious with that lead tongued- Ebonics delivery.


12 posted on 12/15/2013 12:31:53 PM PST by lee martell
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To: raybbr

LOL. He’s got you writing about him.


13 posted on 12/15/2013 12:32:02 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: servo1969

In Matthew 25 we have the parable of the Talents wherein the quest for prosperity is praised and honored. “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

The timid and afraid who do not seek to prosper have what little they have taken from them and given to those who have.

I’d love to hear the Pope discourse on this part of Jesus’ teaching


14 posted on 12/15/2013 12:32:22 PM PST by plangent
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To: raybbr

Yeah, but you gotta love ‘im anyway.

The thing about Rush is that he does a 20 minute show in 3 hours.


15 posted on 12/15/2013 12:33:22 PM PST by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: servo1969

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods. There are no special cases in which it becomes OK.


16 posted on 12/15/2013 12:33:51 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: servo1969
“trickle-down theories” which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and social inclusiveness in the world

So what is this "social inclusiveness" he speaks of?

Does he want the poor to be included in Wall Street cocktail parties?

The Pope is using "social justice" buzzwords. He's a leftie.

17 posted on 12/15/2013 12:34:18 PM PST by what's up
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To: servo1969

Collectivism by any stripe is wrong, Pope; even your version of it!


18 posted on 12/15/2013 12:35:18 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: servo1969

The pope smokes dope.


19 posted on 12/15/2013 12:37:23 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: wolfpat
Yeah, but you gotta love ‘im anyway.

I do.

The thing about Rush is that he does a 20 minute show in 3 hours.

Yeah, we get what we pay for.

20 posted on 12/15/2013 12:38:04 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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