| The_vagabond7 said: I'm not taking anyone's rights. I'm not enforcing some militaristic protocol to divvy up the catholic churches swag, nor am I voting in some committee that will lead to the same, some kind of force is necessary in order to remove somebodies rights. I am merely agreeing that they have the ability to an enormous amount of good that would change the face of the planet, but prefer to have palaces and gold sceptors instead. Furthermore, christianity doesn't preach asceticism necessarily but Jesus was repeatedly clear on his views of amassing wealth for ones self on earth. The short version of, he was against it. If anyone disagrees, and goes with the bizarre western "prosperity gospel" that televangelists are so fond of, that god wants you to be rich, I can go find the necessary scriptures. But if anybody is saying "jesus wants us to be rich" they are trying to get your wallet, or they had their wallet taken by somebody that told them the same thing and are eagerly waiting to be blessed with a new car. |
There's lots of shit in the bible that's ridiculous and Christians don't care about. Most liberal religious believers just "pick and choose" like it was some sort of buffet.
Now which do you prefer? Conservative religious people who want to follow their ancient texts strictly and literally, or liberal ones that either adjust interpreations of the text or only follow some parts of the text in accordance to contemporary values?
Also, let's just say that the Catholics are hypocrites. Hypocrisy is something to condemn I guess, so let us check that off. But then what? We cannot criticize them for amassing wealth when the rest of industrial nation does that.
So go ahead and criticize them for hypocricy, if you wish, but don't criticize them for amassing wealth.
