Pope criticises pursuit of wealth

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Speaking to the bishops assembled at the Vatican, Pope Benedict said those who seek "success, career or money are building on sand".

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Pope criticises pursuit of wealth
Pope Benedict XVI
The Pope says God's word is the only veritable reality to build on

The global financial crisis is proof that the pursuit of money and success is pointless, Pope Benedict XVI has told a meeting of bishops in Rome.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church said that the disappearance of money as banks collapsed showed that wealth meant "nothing".

The Pope said that people should instead base their lives on God's word.

Those who think that "concrete things we can touch are the surest reality" are deceiving themselves, he said.

'Building on sand'

The crisis in the financial industry has seen billions of dollars wiped off the value of shares, and a number of seemingly untouchable banking institutions have been taken over, nationalised, or have collapsed.

Speaking to the bishops assembled at the Vatican, Pope Benedict said those who seek "success, career or money are building on sand".

When he opened the Synod on Sunday, the Pope attacked modern culture, saying that "nations once rich in faith and vocations are losing their own identity under the harmful and destructive influence of a certain modern culture".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7654878.stm


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Is he suggesting failure is the cure? lol

Unreal
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I've been to the Vatican

If I already had a place like that, I wouldnt understand the need to pursue wealth either

easy to say, when you're plunked on top of some of the richest real estate in the world

as a Catholic, I say he's rubbing salt in the wounds of middle class people trying to stay afloat when they have things like 30 million illegal aliens dragging them down (killing wages and raising taxes)

and the pope doesnt believe in condoms for overpopulated countries or borders in first world sustain level population countries

nothing like have a grown up 'Hitler Youth' boy pass judgement on you for trying to survive the misery he helps heap on you
 
Note - I am not asking that this thread be shut down because I do believe in free speech.

But how many of you most likely leftist losers would be up in arms if I called a muslim a terrorist instead of an insurgent or I insulted your religious beliefs if you have them. Or if I said Atheism is the height of emotional thinking because science is not on your side.

Or if I said gay marriage is for backward assholes.

I doubt this post will even survive.
 
Quote from Compulsive:

The POPE is GAY....by the way here is the right version...The LOVE of money, is the root of all evil" :cool:
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some people are not motivated by money. i would say its more the love of power that is the root of evil. that would include the religious and money lovers.
 
Quote from jem:

Note - I am not asking that this thread be shut down because I do believe in free speech.

Or if I said Atheism is the height of emotional thinking because science is not on your side.


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well i would just think its just bogus statement from you. one of many. it wouldnt bother me much because the evidence is that science is on the side of the nonbelievers.
 
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well i would just think its just bogus statement from you. one of many. it wouldnt bother me much because the evidence is that science is on the side of the nonbelievers.
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This is the emotional thinking I reference.

I said atheism - not non believers.

By the way at this point in time science has no ability to say there is no Creator.

Science can only go back to a fraction of a second after the big bang.


But there are top physicists who admit the universe does look finely tuned.

So science either has no dog in this hunt or is on the side of a designer.
 
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