{"id":3528,"date":"2015-06-23T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:29:48","slug":"francischurch-wealth-is-greed-and-greed-is-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"FrancisChurch: Wealth is Greed and Greed is Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“To to humble papal suites quickly, driver.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Pope Francis has said something again that doesn’t sound right.\u00a0 Then again, when you think about it, it just sounds really wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you give the key to your heart to greed, it will leave the door wide open to vanity, arrogance and all of the other vices, squeezing God out of the way, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This on its face isn’t true.\u00a0 Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.\u00a0 Greed is not the worst sin; always giving way to pride or anger, lust or jealousy, etc.\u00a0 Pope Francis is just making that up.<\/p>\n

Wealth isn\u2019t \u201ca statue\u201d that stands inert and has no impact on a person, the pope said June 19 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.<\/p>\n

\u201cWealth has the tendency to grow, to move around, to take a place in one\u2019s life and heart,\u201d and once it moves in, fanning the desire to always accumulate more, the heart becomes \u201ccorrupted,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wealth does not make you want more wealth.\u00a0 You want more wealth no matter how little you have.\u00a0 If you are able to gain wealth through hard work, sacrifice, or cunning, then you will be able accumulate it too.\u00a0 It does not corrupt the heart unless you let it, but it can weigh it down and tempt you to shirk your Christian responsibility, to compromise and sin.\u00a0 Hence vows of poverty.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis is a rich man in every respect.\u00a0 He has control of billions of dollars and a huge infrastructure at his command.\u00a0 Every single priest, religious, and employee worldwide is obliged to him.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis has power. Isn’t greed simply an inordinate desire for the power to possess or the power to command? If he chooses to live simply and give back it is a good example, but it can’t truly be said that he isn’t rich. So his blanket and indiscriminate attack on wealth is, much like his attack on weapons manufacturers, plain hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

The pope focused his homily on the day\u2019s reading from the Gospel of Mark (6:19-23), in which Jesus tells his disciples to \u201cnot store up for yourselves treasures on earth,\u201d but rather \u201cstore up treasures in heaven,\u201d because \u201cfor where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis said that deep down, people\u2019s search for more is rooted in a desire for a sense of security, but there is a high risk that person will become a slave of wealth, accumulating it only for oneself and not in order to serve others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If greed were rooted in a sense of security than it’s also cowardice.\u00a0 But greed isn’t cowardice.\u00a0 Cowardice is.<\/p>\n

Soon, any sense of security gives way to vice and division, even in the family, he said, according to Vatican Radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is gibberish.\u00a0 ‘Any sense of security gives way to vice and division?’<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso the root of war lies in this ambition that destroys, corrupts,\u201d as so many wars are being fought because of \u201cgreed for power, for riches,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if I’m cozy in my blanket until 6am, I’m inevitably causing war?\u00a0 My security is my greed and my greed is my possessions, therefore the killing?\u00a0 Is there some point to the Pope’s endless smoke and rambling about people having things and liking them?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a war that can be raging in one\u2019s own heart, he said, \u201cbecause greed keeps going, keeps moving forward,\u201d stringing the person along a path of vice one step at a time.<\/p>\n

Greed \u201copens the door, then comes in vanity \u2014 to think you\u2019re important, to believe you\u2019re powerful \u2014 and, in the end, pride, and from there all the vices, all of them,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Greed is the king of every sin and its cause lies not in the heart but in the wealth you possess?<\/p>\n

This FrancisChurch theology is really just all about money and power, not Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis has said something again that doesn’t sound right.\u00a0 Then again, when you think about it, it just sounds really wrong. If you give the key to your heart to greed, it will leave the door wide open to vanity, arrogance and all of the other vices, squeezing God out of the way, Pope …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,19,500,499],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greed","tag-pope-francis","tag-seven-deadly-sins","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}