Rush Limbaugh stated that Pope Francis comments in the Exhortation were Marxism: But regardless, what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him, Limbaugh added. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the Pope. Rush Limbaugh, November 27, 2013. What the Pope said: In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. ... Exhortation paragraph 54.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 04:33:11 +0000
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