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Related: About this forum1 per centers religious fraud: Why Ken Langone is an enemy of the Church
What it really means when Home Depot's co-founder, a self-described Catholic, slams the pope's ministry to the poorELIZABETH STOKER
You might remember Ken Langone, billionaire and co-founder of Home Depot, as the remarkably unflinching character who threatened to withdraw donations from the Catholic Church back in 2013 because he was ruffled by Pope Francis ministry to the poor. You get more with honey than with vinegar, Langone reportedly informed Cardinal Timothy Dolan (meaning crumbs of my immense fortune by more, distortions of Christs message by honey, and faithful witness to Scripture by vinegar). Third- and fourth-century heretics lived and died without ever coming up with such a dazzlingly warped view of Christianity, and Langone is at it again, unabashed as ever.
Speaking of populist political appeals to the downtrodden, Langone told Politico this week: I hope its not working. Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You dont survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.
Langone is right that political efforts to support the poor resemble Hitlers regime with different words insofar as the words used by the Nazis in support of their reign of terror are not even remotely similar to those used to campaign for minimum wage hikes and universal healthcare. In that regard all political regimes are virtually identical but with different words. While its always a magical moment when diminishment of Jewish suffering aligns in a perfect storm of ignorance with anti-poor Christianist whining, the quickest way to slice through the nonsense is to have a quick peek at what the persecuted Catholics executed by Hitlers brutal regime had to say about the support of the poor.
Take, for instance, Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest and resistance member who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his work against Nazi tyranny. Writing in prison, Delp outlined the necessary establishments needed for human flourishing, arguing that an existence minimum consisting of sufficient living space, stable law and order and adequate nourishment, is indispensable. The socialism of the minimum is not the last word on the subject but the essential first word, the start. No faith, no education, no government, no science, no art, no wisdom will help humankind if the unfailing certainty of the minimum is lacking
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1 per centers religious fraud: Why Ken Langone is an enemy of the Church (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2014
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. He is a disgrace.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Yikes! This guy is a nightmare.