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1 posted on 10/28/2014 1:34:26 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock
yet "if I speak of this some people conclude that the pope is a communist."

Well, if the shoe fits . . .

2 posted on 10/28/2014 1:35:34 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Alex Murphy; metmom; daniel1212

Another day, another peek into the mind of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

In Before FRoman Catholics Claim He Was Misquoted.


3 posted on 10/28/2014 1:36:03 PM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret.)
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To: Gamecock
The "structural" cause of poverty is a shortage of capitalism.

Capitalism produces the things that redistributionists wish to redistribute.

Without capitalism, there is nothing for redistributionists to redistribute.

4 posted on 10/28/2014 1:36:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Gamecock

The pope is not a communist. He’s a corporatist.


5 posted on 10/28/2014 1:37:07 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Gamecock

So, the solution sought by the Pope is.....is what???

Socialism????

A liberal welfare state???

Destruction of capitalism????

What exactly does he want to see happen???


6 posted on 10/28/2014 1:37:32 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Gamecock

Tyrants have created poverty this go ‘round...-and they got plenty while the rest have none. They’re not producers, they’re takers. Anything else you need to know Pope?


7 posted on 10/28/2014 1:38:04 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Gamecock

He doesn’t seem to understand what causes, or corrects poverty.


13 posted on 10/28/2014 1:49:55 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Gamecock
World Meeting of Popular Movements

I just had a movement.

14 posted on 10/28/2014 1:50:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Gamecock

Holy Father, the structural cause of poverty is the rejection of God, capitalism and rule of law. But there will still be some poor, as He said, “The poor you will always have with you...” - Matthew 26:11

That’s what charity is for.


15 posted on 10/28/2014 1:51:14 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Gamecock

So where in the Bible does it tell people to covet and demand to be given other people’s stuff. This pope is of the devil.


18 posted on 10/28/2014 1:55:40 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Gamecock
struggle against the "structural causes" of poverty and inequality

By encouraging chastity?

That is the biggest "structural cause" of poverty. People having sex and children outside of a permanent marriage.

Get married. Stay married.

The second is lack of working.

Get a job. Show up for the job.

I suppose in someways they depend on the same skills.

20 posted on 10/28/2014 2:02:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Gamecock

The Pope needs to take a long walk off a short pier.


21 posted on 10/28/2014 2:04:46 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Gamecock
Here are some "structural causes" of poverty:

So that part I agree with.

22 posted on 10/28/2014 2:12:49 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness & gentleness.)
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To: Gamecock
People are getting their heads cut off. Women and children are being used as sex slaves and all he cares about is demanding a house for everyone by community organizing and income distribution. This pope lives in lala land.
23 posted on 10/28/2014 2:18:21 PM PDT by FR_addict
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Pope urges activists to struggle against ‘structural causes’ of poverty

Interesting. One of the largest structural causes of poverty is the Democrat Party and there lock on the largest cities and their black communities.


25 posted on 10/28/2014 2:42:17 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Gamecock
A structural cause is something like a communist-command system. Everybody but the top one percent in the party is a slave and impoverished.

But when you live in a country where 95% of the people are improving themselves and you're not, the only "structural" problem is your own structure.

31 posted on 10/28/2014 4:19:10 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Gamecock
Pope urges activists to struggle against 'structural causes' of poverty

Matthew 26:11

You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."


36 posted on 10/29/2014 6:03:51 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gamecock
Deploring the displacement of his "brother peasants" from their "native soil," the pope warned that traditional rural life is at "risk of extinction."

Since when do leftists have any feeling other than pure hatred for rural people?

42 posted on 10/29/2014 8:55:01 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Gamecock
Well for starters many third world nations are so or become so {like the U.S. is heading} for refusing to shake off tyranny and also allow a man to keep what he earns rather than redistribute half of what he makes among the masses. There's nothing wrong with making money or even being rich. It's when the means to obtain the riches {the love of money become greed and coveting etc comes in the way of mans relationship with GOD {IOW sinning to obtain} that it becomes morally wrong.

The United States taxpayers have likely spend close to Trillions of dollars both in form of government foreign aid and private charity including church missions to third world nations. Yet even after decades they refuse to change. We have one of the most generous welfare programs in the world. Look at Detroit, Chicago, etc and see what it wrought when government replaced work with welfare for those able to work. Look at what the Unions did to Detroit and our jobs nation wide. Thank them for jobs going overseas. Greed of thugs sitting in officers who never worked a day of labor in their life but extort corporate money. Is Pope going to attack Labor Unions? LOL

Mexico today could be like the U.S. Instead it is corrupt and a civil war is happening with drug cartels running the nation. The nations with Ebola outbreaks where vaccination, hygiene, and sanitation, {It takes all three working together} could eradicate many of their illnesses refuse to do for themselves. Culture dictates they avoid lifting themselves up and out. That is not the fault of the world.

Developers, love them or hate them create jobs which allow everyone from engineers to janitors to feed their families for their labor. The modern world as we know it would not exist with persons unwilling to risk their capitol for profit. In their early life late 1800's barons like Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and others had the talent to build empires which developed this nation. Some of them in their later years diversified much of their riches into charities & some did not. It was their choice as it should be.

How about the leader of the worlds largest church? How about church property holdings, art, etc worth fortunes? I remember visiting St Marks Cathedral in Venice. I remember seeing the gold and art. How about misinterpreted scriptures that cause married couple not to plan a reasonable size family they can afford to provide for? IOW why not allow basic birth control measures & still not allow abortion which is a completely different act all together. Lot's of things contribute to poverty including some churches dogma.

43 posted on 10/29/2014 12:44:16 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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