I wonder why he is not more focused on people’s eternal future.
Because he reads his own press clippings...which would be non-existant if all he taked about was redemption and salvation...
I am all for him talking about sin and judgment. But he is making capitalism a sin and socialism a savior. There are a lot of details about both of those he is leaving out. Socialism centralizes power in the hands of a few. If he thinks that will bring less sin he is crazy. If he thinks it will bring less oppression he is even crazier. What it will do is kill the free expression of the gospel or the free exchange of ideas right along with free commerce. It will kill incentive to excel and punish productivity. The pope appears blind to the reality of man’s sin nature. He thinks he can fix it. Capitalism in a constitutional republic is a system that understands man’s sin nature and divides power into the most hands with lots of checks and balance. Yes, that includes the fact that some accumulate more economic power than others. It is the reap what you sow method that rewards hard work and good ideas and punishes the opposite. Yes it can become corrupt. That is why we have laws and judges and police. They also can become corrupt. So we have checks on our checks.