[FiddlePig]

Sadly much of the Catholic church, “mainline” protestants among others... long ago fired Jesus Christ and hired Karl Marx. :(No better example than the “liberation theology” of the Latin American Catholic church). This has resulted in permanent poverty in countries rich in natural resources, climate, flora and fauna. Countries were the people should be prosperous... but when the “church” declares prosperity to be “sinful” it cannot flourish. Jesus did admonish His followers to freely give of their bounty, but nowhere did He authorize any person or entity to come take(aka: steal) it! Good purposes or not.

[defconw]

The only quibble I have with you is when you say much of the Catholic Church. I'll concede half. We step in to defend our Church just as we would step in to defend our family. That does not mean that there is not a vehement discussion going on behind closed doors! Dispite what the world that is not Catholic thinks, we not a bunch of mind-numbed, drooling kool-aid drinkers. We just prefer to handle our business in private.