So because some people are rich, and others are poor, does that mean things are unfair? How much work did it take to become rich? How many of the poor are that way because they depend on government handouts. How many are poor because of government corruption? Is it fair for the government to steal money from those who earned it to provide for the poor? Are wealth disparities unbiblical? NO. What about “migrants”—how many are illegally entering the nations?
No one has a right to have a “dream” so how can someone “scorn” what isn’t a right? Why did they leave a family behind? It was THEIR choice! What about the “dignity” of the people whose lives are destroyed by these “immigrants”? If they are illegally in the country, what about the Pope suggesting they obey the law as in Romans 13:1-7 and 1st Peter 2:13-17?
The Pope obviously doesn’t remember that GOD instituted capital punishment for murder. So there is nothing unjust about capital punishment, Mr. Pope. Go home and read your Bible.
Excellent post.
ReplyDeleteOn Leo’s first quote, here’s a thought: Maybe the Vatican could draw upon its stores of vast wealth to give away to the poor he laments! (Hey, Leo, find a mirror in your luxurious living quarters and read your post out loud to yourself!)
ReplyDeleteGood point, Lorna!
ReplyDeleteThe pope as Head of Christ's Church is entitled to more finance given his position of authority, so Lora's point isn't really all that good.
ReplyDeleteThe pope is not the “Head of Christ’s Church.” Jesus is the Head of His Church. The pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Not the same thing. My point was that that institution sits on top of great riches that could go towards relieving poverty, if Leo truly wished for that.
DeleteRevelation 17:1-6 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
ReplyDeleteSo he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteWe don't care how much the Pope makes, our point is that he is bellyaching about a so-called injustice because some people are wealthy and others poor, and therefore he should put his money where his mouth is and use his own money to finance poor people.