The Pope is a Socialist
by jude Thursday, Oct 8 2015, 9:49am
international / prose / post

The truth is I cannot say one way or the other, however, what is clear is that if the Pope followed the teachings of Christ he would be, as the overriding theme in the Gospels is Jesus’ detestation of wealth and privileged ruling elites that exploit the masses; indeed, Jesus was a man of the underclass, the oppressed and abused. However, to distract from the dominant social reform message of the New Testament Christian religious institutions focus on the miracles and absurdities, walking on 'water' (unruly emotions), curing the 'blind,' raising the 'dead' and other 'miraculous' misinterpretations, fodder for the mentally bereft, while elite religious leaders of today enrich themselves exactly like the priest class that Jesus detested and constantly railed against.

There is not a single large Christian organisation today that has given all its material wealth and money to the poor as Jesus instructed, notwithstanding the many other breaches of faith. So Mr Pope, and others, you have an obligation and a challenge, to give it all away and establish yourself as a true believer and follower -- imitate Christ not only in word, but deed/action, perhaps then you will not be perceived as just another hypocrite leading a political and extremely wealthy organisation. You would also note, if you are familiar with every aspect of the NT, there are no excuses as the message is clear, so what will you say to your God in the afterlife, ‘but, but, but ..,’ go straight to hell with all the other hypocrites. I seem to recall that Jesus was ‘mildly’ antagonistic toward HYPOCRITES!