tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post5413804717132582351..comments2024-02-13T03:24:07.880-06:00Comments on The Eye-Witness: Laudato Si: the Mountain Gives Birth to a MouseAged parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-81554862270768802722015-06-19T20:14:33.732-05:002015-06-19T20:14:33.732-05:00Some while back Pope Francis said 'without Jes...Some while back Pope Francis said 'without Jesus, the Church becomes nothing but a big NGO'. ???alynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-54947059122330012332015-06-19T17:02:57.015-05:002015-06-19T17:02:57.015-05:00"...but all your monumental effort has produc..."...but all your monumental effort has produced a mouse. "<br /><br />Could this be a cunning way to deal with the elephant in the room?Ever mindfulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10231921956177950005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-17227799347961202422015-06-19T15:07:21.557-05:002015-06-19T15:07:21.557-05:00Many thanks for this. It's most helpful to me...Many thanks for this. It's most helpful to me. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-32968016051927651212015-06-19T06:58:05.139-05:002015-06-19T06:58:05.139-05:00Here is a comment from another Catholic blog. The ...Here is a comment from another Catholic blog. The comments makes things a bit clearer but still...just what are we to expect from it all?<br /><br />"HowlinglyAbsurd says:<br />June 18, 2015 at 11:42 PM<br />OK, the pope sounds like a crazy old man (or crazy old peasant woman) who has lost his marbles and become a useful idiot for Malthusian population controllers. This is a case of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, whereby the pope’s anger, resentment, and hysteria, is to be imposed on all Catholics in the form of nanny state, eco-socialist environmentalist regulations to take things back to a pre-industrial, 19th-century peasant lifestyle. This is a crazy old man suffering from strong delusions, confused about what his real role is. All of the liberal Catholics and secular liberals hailing this with hysteria and enthusiasm as some epic breakthrough for the Church and mankind are equally crazy and delusional. Liberalism is a mental disorder and the current pope has got it, folks! This is a colossal disaster for the Church that will take decades after his pontificate has ended to repair.<br />He’s achieved the impossible – he has made Catholicism, in an extreme progressive modernist Vatican II version without Christ or sacraments, attractive to secular liberals. They all want a Catholicism focused exclusively and hysterically on the environment with all of the eco-socialist panic and silliness that goes with that. This is the greatest gift to the anti-Catholic population control cabals in the history of the Church."<br /><br />Just can't grasp it.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-28673563983450411082015-06-19T06:50:29.578-05:002015-06-19T06:50:29.578-05:00Seamless Garment, Affordable Care, and now this st...Seamless Garment, Affordable Care, and now this stupid Ego Encyclical. All this is too much for my brain. What does it all boil down too? What sediment lies at the bottom of all this crap?Just can't grasp it.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-21031100577452194292015-06-19T02:57:54.697-05:002015-06-19T02:57:54.697-05:00It seems on the order of the Affordable Care Act.It seems on the order of the Affordable Care Act.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-22528856489278948502015-06-18T21:30:04.436-05:002015-06-18T21:30:04.436-05:00Thank you for your brave article. You are teaching...Thank you for your brave article. You are teaching us not to be afraid to speak up about the devil's work in society and in church.<br />Yes, the Church's enemies will rejoice. They always do that.<br />So the "Holy" Father's most pressing concern is about the environment ? Oh, my..<br /> But not about the destruction of Catholicism, whose leader he apparently is (operative word here 'apparently'). Literal destruction, as in one church attacked per day in the middle of Europe and the media not saying a word about it:<br />http://lagauchematuer.fr/2015/06/16/30-eglises-profanees-en-france-du-1er-mai-2015-au-31-mai1-par-jour-silence-des-medias/FLOR solitarianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637864682999679595.post-63086638056852634822015-06-18T19:58:11.113-05:002015-06-18T19:58:11.113-05:00I think it imprudent to release an encyclical on a...I think it imprudent to release an encyclical on a controversial subject, unless it is short, clearly written, and contains anathemas. <br /><br />I won't be reading Laudatio Si anytime soon, nor will I spend too much time with those who declare it heresy or those who proclaim it a fifth gospel. <br /><br />I did enjoy the reference to the economy in the Middle Ages. I expect that the big answer to the reason why one could support his family on 14 weeks of labor, or why they would have up to 180 holidays per year has much to do with the absence of usury and the size of government. Both usury and taxation are compounded in the economy. <br /><br />Any price you pay has to cover interest costs that are attached to the item, all the way through its production cycle, and related costs. The interest on the mortgage on the factory, the loan for equipment, the loan for materials, the loan for the trucks, the salary for the truck driver that has to cover his mortgage, student, auto, and credit card loans, etc. Granted the interest portion gets smaller the farther one gets away from the direct line of production cycle, but the dollar you use to pay it is the dollar left over after you have paid your mortgage, auto loan, and credit card.<br /><br />Taxes are the same way. You pay tax on the income, sales tax on the purchase, and the price includes covering a portion of all the rest of the taxes included in the production cycle. <br /><br />With the increase in productivity we've experienced in the last few centuries, we would neither worry about getting jobs or paying for retirement if interest and taxes could be rolled back to what they were in the Middle Ages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com