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What a French shower. Those of you who speak French know the word.
Fox Business host Stuart Varney expressed his displeasure with Pope Francis on Wednesday, claiming the pontiff was wrong to attack deified markets and the idolatry of money.
Capitalism, in my opinion, is a liberator, he said. The free choice of millions of people is the essence of freedom. In my opinion, society benefits most when people are free to pursue their own self-interest. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it is not. When individuals are free, we collectively are better off in every way, financially and spiritually.
Varney said Pope John Paul II understood that free markets were necessary because he grew up under a communist regime. Varney insisted that markets work well for everyone.
The Fox Business host also criticized the pope for mixing politics and religion.
Right, the GOP never does this.
I go to church to save my soul, Varney said. Its got nothing to do with my vote. Pope Francis has linked the two. He has offered direct criticism of a specific political system. He has characterized negatively that system. I think he wants to influence my politics.
Faith without works is dead my friend. It's in the Bible, look it up.
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Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Pope Francis is absolutely right (and Stephen Colbert had previously hinted as much). If you're going to go by the teachings of Jesus, loving money above concern for human needs is a sin.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)he hates Jesus.
spanone
(135,873 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)He also feels it's his place to lecture Americans about the need to cut the social safety net in a country not his own.
What a colossal asshole.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)Yeah he was against the oppression in the cold war satellite nations but he had bones to pick with western capitalist nations as well.
moxybug
(35 posts)so naturally they lie about shit. Its what they do.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)The Pope is undermining the plutocracy and Rupert Murdoch will do anything in his power to stop him.