How Wrong Can The Pope Be?

By Pastor Lee Duigon
May 15, 2014
NewsWithViews.com

Pope Francis I last week told us that “inequality,” whatever that’s supposed to mean, is the root of social evil.

What are we to make of such a foolish statement? You would think this pops has never read the Bible, although that can hardly be possible.

What ever happened to sin as the root of all evil, including “social evil,” whatever that may be? Yes, at one point St. Paul did say, “The love of money is the root of all evil” (I Timothy 6:10). It’s obvious he meant the lusting after money, the coveting of money: and covetousness is a sin. And I think we can be sure Paul wasn’t suggesting we give all the other sins a pass.

Addressing the humanist coven of the U.N., the pope called for “the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state, as well as indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil society.”

How wrong can a man be? Private sector? If all wealth is the state’s, to redistribute as the sinners in charge of the state see fit, then there is no private sector. But we must remember that this pope comes from Argentina, where Juan Peron brought together the corporate fat cats and the labor unions in a formula that guaranteed that nation’s future as a perpetual underachiever.

By now everyone ought to understand how a war on poverty works. The state, through taxation and the threat of force, seizes people’s hard-earned money. A few pennies of every dollar get doled out in entitlements to the ruling party’s favored voter base. The rest goes to create enormous bureaucracies that grow and grow forever, never shrinking, whose pampered employees provide the ruling party with yet another mob of loyal voters. If you can get enough of the population dependent on benefits from the government, you can rule the roost till Doomsday.

That’s how it works in the civilized countries. In places like Zimbabwe and North Korea, the rulers simply keep all the wealth for themselves, their families, and friends, and the whole nation is impoverished to the point of actual starvation.

How can the Pope not know these things?

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