Author Topic: Waste (Read 740 times)

poche · « **on:** June 06, 2013, 02:26:30 AM »

Speaking off the cuff, the pontiff added: “What is in charge today isn't the human person but money. Money is in command. And God our Father has given us the task of caring for the earth not for the money, but for us: for men and women. This is our charge. Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption. It is a 'culture of waste'.“

“If, for example, on a winter's night,” he continued, “a person dies here in [nearby] Via Ottaviano, that's not news. If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news. It seems normal. It must not be this way! And yet these things come to be normal … On the other hand, a drop of ten points on the stock exchange constitutes a tragedy. If someone dies that isn't news but a ten point drop in the markets is a tragedy! Thus people are discarded, as if they were garbage.”

http://www.visnews-en.blogspot.com/2013/06/general-audience-culture-of-waste.html

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2013, 09:50:00 PM »

Does Pope Francis sound like a really tired Marxist? Or is it just me?

Man was made to worship God while on this Earth, our very own vale of tears, but Pope Francis is making so-called care for the environment our calling.

If we are without God, we really may as well focus entirely on profit and consumption. The idea of an ascetic, atheistic monk is purely ridiculous.

poche · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2013, 10:43:45 PM »

The Holy Father is calling upon us to re-examine our priorities. In the world money is all important. When the stock maret falls a few points everybody panics.If a poor person dies in the street nobody cares. The Holy Father is saying that these priorities are wrong and that the worship of money is wrong. He is in agreement with you in saying that we need to see things as God sees them and put them in their proper perspective.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2013, 10:50:18 PM »

Quote from: poche

The Holy Father is calling upon us to re-examine our priorities. In the world money is all important. When the stock maret falls a few points everybody panics.If a poor person dies in the street nobody cares. The Holy Father is saying that these priorities are wrong and that the worship of money is wrong. He is in agreement with you in saying that we need to see things as God sees them and put them in their proper perspective.

Not quite. Window dressing yes, but substance? No.

This whole "we need to see things as God sees them" is a vanity of the novus ordite. We follow Our Lord but many things will remain a mystery. We should never see ourselves as equals with God, which is what is implied in seeing things thru God's Eyes. Besides, if the world was meant to just be cared for and shared then why are there scorpions and deadly snakes out there? No, from my reading of Genesis, we are to struggle and toil and wait for a Redeemer, except that we Catholics view Christ as ourRedeemer and Pope Francis using the generic word "God" tells me that he may actually be a syncretism or an indifferentist.

Zeitun · « **Reply #4 on:** June 10, 2013, 01:04:58 AM »

"For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always."

Priorities, poche.

poche · « **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2013, 01:09:43 AM »

Quote from: Zeitun

"For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always."

Priorities, poche.

Whatever you do for the least of these, that you have done unto me.

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** June 10, 2013, 04:00:55 AM »

Both saints of today, St Landericus and St Margaret of Scotland were known for their love of the poor.