Pope Francis calls for a church for the poor, a noble cause, but

There is no shortage of poor people on this planet and no shortage of people who have come forward to claim that they are for the poor and will do
something about it. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Castro, are but a few such people that wished to help the poor.

In the bible when asked what he was going to do with the poor the metaphorical Jesus said, ?The poor will always be with you.? Changing the status of the poor was not why Jesus came to earth and he made that clear to his followers, who didn?t particularly want to hear such talk from him.

Perhaps that is why the church teaches that poverty is godly and wealth sinful. But giving your money to the church or any religious institution is not sinful and certainly a godly gesture.

God, the creator of the universe and all the gold and wealth in it is certainly not a poor fellow. God must be one heck of a rich person and lives in constant splendor, an existence surly no less spectacular than the palaces where the pope, cardinals, deacons, Rabbis, Mullahs and other spiritual teachers and leaders live in.

I find it hard to believe that a rich god would want his creation to live in poverty and squalor since he lives in enormous prosperity and splendidness.

Here on earth mere-mortals that become rich and have offspring usually, if not always, allow their children to live in the same splendor and grandeur as they do; they share the wealth with their children. So why is the most powerful and enormously rich god of the whole universe so stingy with his human offspring?

Anyway, the best way to rid people of poverty is sensible economic policies that make earning a decent living possible. The best way to keep people poor is to try and provided for their every need and want and having no means to pay for it other than plunder taken from others, which has been the way nations prospered in the past, by conquering other people and taking their riches (booty).

God has already stated that the poor will always be with us, presumably meaning that he is not going to share the wealth with his children (at least not in this life), therefore it is up to humans to make the best of their economic situations with smart economic principles.

Sharing the wealth, taking booty and plunder from others, is not a godly biblical principle; nor is it a practice that works for mere-mortals when it comes to alleviating poverty.

Hopefully the new pope will look for ways to teach the poor and their leaders a way to fish, as Jesus metaphorically did for his disciples, and not to plunder as did Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Castro and many others, who ended up creating more poor people than they started out with.

Source: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread933715/pg1

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