Friday, October 31, 2014

Enough Of This Pope

When not exhorting Catholics to abandon 2000 years of collective wisdom on a variety of important matters, the current Pope made this asinine comment: "caring for the poor does not make you a communist." Nobody ever said it does, and this defensive reaction is political rather than theological.

What makes someone a communist is browbeating for governments to re-distribute more and more wealth among private citizens, whether to "help the poor" or any other noble-sounding endeavor that is meant to immunize this despicable activity from criticism.  Communist fellow travelers will reflexively spout that there is no such thing as a communist government, since communism represents the stateless society. But how did Marx instruct/predict that communism would be achieved? By growing the state to obscene proportions as an engine to annihilate civil society and all the traditions, beliefs, and "superstitions" holding mankind back from this purely rational and stateless society. Nobody has ever figured out how the state will suddenly vanish after becoming all-powerful, but the allure of Marx is for weak minds unwilling or unable to grasp the constraints of reality.  

Noble ends do not justify ignoble means. To believe they do is to embrace evil, and it is revolting to witness Peter's heir championing such belief. Nothing Christ ever said encouraged using government force to improve people's condition, not spiritually and certainly not materially, the latter having no relevance to Christ's kingdom.

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