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Pope Blames Markets for Environment’s Ills
Wall Street Journal ^
| June 18, 2015
| Francis X. Rocca
Posted on 06/24/2015 4:43:46 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
Which of course is why East Germany, the old Soviet Union and mainland China are so environmentally pristine.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:46:36 AM PDT
by
Stosh
To: expat_panama
ROME Pope Francis in his much-awaited encyclical on the environment offered a broad and uncompromising indictment of the global market economy, accusing it of plundering the Earth at the expense of the poor and of future generations.If the Pope would sell off all the Vatican City assets, and donate them to the poor, wouldn't the poor be better off? Maybe he should do this first, then he would have the moral high ground to criticize capitalism.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:46:36 AM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: expat_panama
If you are against free markets, you are against individual liberty.
If you are against liberty, you lose all claim to being one of the good guys.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:48:02 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: The_Media_never_lie
He’s a Communist. The Christianity is just window dressing.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:48:24 AM PDT
by
Torahman
(Remember the Maccabees!)
To: expat_panama
The pope op[poses any thing or any body that stands in the way of the Church to control the minds, bodies and lives of those he must control to rule the earth
He wants to return to the days prey Henry VIII where he waqs the man.... the ruler of all, the controller of all things
Beware the Vatican....... it is at root, evil
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:49:32 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: expat_panama
Pope needs to clean up his own house before he lectures others.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:49:42 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Torahman
The Church Of Rome has a pinko doofus as pope.
I long for the days of John Paul II.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:51:03 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
To: expat_panama
accusing it of plundering the Earth at the expense of the poor and of future generations.
I support plundering the earth.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:51:38 AM PDT
by
Leep
("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
To: expat_panama
So he’s a Marxist and a treehugger?
Wait till the Marxists take over....the first thing to go? The Church
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:52:42 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: 1010RD; A Cyrenian; abb; Abigail Adams; abigail2; AK_47_7.62x39; Aliska; aposiopetic; Aquamarine; ..
Here's a link to the actual encyclical so we can check to see what the Pope actually said, but in the meantime we got the Post saying that everything's Wall Street's fault in
Pope Francis vs. Wall StreetMeanwhile, yesterday saw both metals and stocks flat and today futures got metals up +0.41% and stocks down -0.22%. Life goes on...
To: expat_panama
In passionate language, the pontiff attributed global warming to human activity I guess by this standard, the crazy person who screams nonsense while locked up in a lunatic asylum is using "passionate language." Both are equally nonsensical and hysterical.
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:53:19 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: expat_panama
The pope has chosen deliberate ignorance in the furtherance of the failed cause of socialism. It is the age of incompetence. We have and affirmative action president, a communist pope, and numerous other public officials (like a Baltimore mayor) who choose to turn their backs on reality to push their own particular fantasies.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H. L. Mencken
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:53:25 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: expat_panama
Maybe the northern hemisphere should start feeding Africa
Oh and discovering mass producing and sending vaccines and medicine for AIDS malaria and insecticides
And technical and medical aid workers!
Oh, wait.....
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posted on
06/24/2015 4:54:12 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: expat_panama
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posted on
06/24/2015 5:01:19 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: expat_panama
If the Pope, or anyone else wants to see how ‘market economies’ stack up against socialism/communism with regards the environment, just look at the environmental records of the old USSR, or for that matter any totalitarian leftist regime. Regarding the southern countries, they have created a lot of their own issues - including marked deforestation in Argentina and many other countries in South America. If one believes that CO2 is the major driver of climate, then they should also consider that it is estimated that:
“By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the worlds roads.” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deforestation-and-global-warming/
There's a lot more to say about this..
To: expat_panama
He might as well just come out and say that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
To: Stosh
Which of course is why East Germany, the old Soviet Union and mainland China are so environmentally pristine.
Exactly. When you have unelected, dictatorial bureaucrats making decisions, the environment will take a much bigger beating. A lot of useful idiots out there just blindly assume that a Socialist/Communist/Marxist country will be more environmentally friendly—and the Pope is one of them.
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posted on
06/24/2015 5:08:18 AM PDT
by
rbg81
To: expat_panama
This guy is a flat out communist who wants to turn the Catholic church into the propaganda arm of the elite global redistributionists.
To: expat_panama
Maybe the Pope would like a return to the dark ages, with some plague thrown in to reduce the human population which afflicts mother Gaia? What the Pope advocates will result in the death of millions an the loss of freedom for everyone left after the purges.
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posted on
06/24/2015 5:13:16 AM PDT
by
Truth29
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