Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/21/supply-side-jesus-3.html
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Wall Street’s comment: Pope schmope.
What’s next, telling us the “money changers should be thrown out of the temple”?
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“Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” is literally the Inquisition. Name was changed a few times in the 20th C. They mostly pass down judgement on books and movies, proclaiming what Catholics are allowed in good conscience to read and watch.
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The Holy See does have a bank with around $8 billion in assets. It has had some corruption problems.
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Plus…
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OK cool. But aren’t most Catholics poor? Worldwide I mean?
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The pope raised it to 18 in 2013, so now it has the highest age of consent in Europe (it’s tied with Turkey).
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The Pope is a font of moral courage, in as much as he agrees with me.
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how many Vaticanians are eligible to marry?
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Hear, hear!
This will certainly make supply side Jesus weep; but it’s always interesting to remember that, once upon a time, the official position was that usury(meaning ‘interest’ not ‘too much interest’) was Serious Business as a matter of natural law.
Condemning it as invidious because it produces lousy outcomes certainly isn’t incorrect; but historically speaking it’s an enormously liberal position.
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I tried to do a quick bit of research to see if the Pope spends more on his… gowns? Dresses? Let’s say “outfits” in a year than I make. I wasn’t able to nail down an exact figure, because my googlefu is weaksauce, but the consensus seems to be… ahem… “Yes. Yes he does.”
So I’m just going to pull up a chair over in this corner and hold my breath while I wait for this to change anyfuckingthing. I also put down some pillows so that when I pass out I’ll have something soft to land on.
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The Vatican decrying the corrupting power of wealth and assets? How bloody ironic
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But is it really irony if the Pope says it? Isn’t he above the laws of irony? Or am I thinking of Alanis Morissette?
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But… but… prosperity gospel.
Not irony. First-hand experience.
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Fine, we all dis the pope & I’m an atheist too. Never the less:
It’s good that someone defines a moral case against capitalism. Government could never do it. Still, esoteric religious or legal definitions can both produce Wahhabism.
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