Pope condemns individualism and "self interest"
Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 3 months ago to Philosophy
More hypocritical drivel from an irrational moron.
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If he hates life on earth, he should remove himself from this Earthy life.
There is no such thing as "common good".
Read C Hitchens.
Pope Francis has combined that with modern misanthropic viro deprivation and collectivism, worshiping nature as he follows St. Francis of Assisi of the Franciscan+ Order c1200 (which is why he took the name Pope Francis). This was all pushed in his widely promoted Encyclical Care for our Common Home in 2015 http://www.vatican.va/content/frances... This was advertised as (and criticized by conservatives for) the pope being captured by the modern viro movement. On the contrary, they were taken in by the original Francis of Assisi.
+Not to be confused with its opposite Francisco d'Anconia.
Guess he wants the world's population as serfs to the Catholic Church as it was in the Middle Ages.
Little need to wonder why the Catholic Church is continuing to lose relevance.
Tear down your walls at the Vatican, Poopie. Let your pals the Moslems take up residence in YOUR house.
The overall message was how to conduct one's self as a Conscious Human Being and to appreciate all that is present that you've taken no part in.
Unfortunately, those that chose to organize those teachings to subjugate the population have hidden from us the history of mankind and the future of mankind so that we a doomed to continually make the same mistakes over and over again; all the while, still being ruled by the worst and least qualified among us.
As an aside, perhaps as an invitation for a new thread, is it possible for a religion to not be irrational and stupid? Are there any such?
An example would be some of the mormon and jewish ideas of fiscal responsibility.
Ironically, it was the Catholic Church that eventually attempted a serious, comprehensive philosophy through Aquinas, who re-introduced Aristotelianism in western civilization with the unintended consequence of undermining religion. But mixing it with church dogma also had the unfortunate effect of corrupting Aristotelianism to the point where it gave Aristotle a bad reputation.
For all we know there may be such places in the quantum but we don't and we don't need some guy wearing a white dress telling us to be good or we won't get presents or virgins next year.
We should be taught to Chose to be good cause it's the right thing to do, for ourselves, for others and maybe we'll become part of the great entanglement in the sky as a result...Laughing at the latter.
Naturally, it never appeared, so I concluded that the god wasnt nice after all, but still needed to be obeyed or you would be punished in hell, The catholic church did such a bad job of marketing heaven and hell that I wasnt sure I really wanted to go to heaven, or was NOT wanting to go to their hell.
By the time I got to high school, catholicism was pretty much dead to me, and when I read AS in college- that was the definite end.
The whole affair you describe, including the toy as both a real event and symbolic of much more, shows how insidious they are, right down to crushing the spirit of children.
to me!
Walter E. Williams
The thing I don't understand is why the pope is considered to be a world leader, and why do even protestants pay him FAR more attention than I think he would garner, given they don't share his religion. I mean, why do they even notice him? Yes, I know he's the leader of a huge religion that has ridiculous amounts of money....but I have NEVER seen Catholics give more than a passing glance at, say, Billy Graham, or other protestant leaders such as MLK. And yet people of all faiths (except Muslims and people of no faith) just get all goo-goo eyed over the pope. If they think THAT much of him, why aren't they Catholics?
It's religious conservatives that this presents a conflict as they try to reconcile their irrational collectivism with the individualist and rational basis required to support capitalism.
Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime
Give a man another man's fish, and he votes for you.
Religion doing what it does best...maintaining power.
Turn the other cheek, you are your brother's keeper, and other such garbage is what the church promotes, after all.
I hope your supporters on the left head that advice.
Nothing the pope is doing is individualist or in his or anyone else's self interest. He is irrational.
You have not explained what you meant by, "The question is, 'What might I do in his position?' " No rational person should be or want to be in his position at all.