Pope Francis is really ramping up the globalist, statist and socialist rhetoric as of late. First he decried businesses letting going workers, then he complained about global warming and then he championed global government.
When will it ever end? It seems like never, especially after his latest remarks.
In a message sent to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences meeting in the Vatican, Pope Francis began to chastize libertarianism, arguing that the common good outweighs individual matters. Essentially, he is alluding to his Jesuit teachings, where the collective is always more important than the individual.
Here is what he said:
“I cannot fail to speak of the grave risks associated with the invasion of the positions of libertarian individualism at high strata of culture and in school and university education,” he said.
“A common characteristic of this fallacious paradigm is that it minimizes the common good, that is the idea of ‘living well’ or the ‘good life’ in the communitarian framework.”
The Pope explained that libertarianism, “which is so fashionable today,” is nothing more than a “selfish ideal.”
“Thus, the libertarian individual denies the value of the common good because on the one hand he supposes that the very idea of ‘common’ means the constriction of at least some individuals, and on the other hand that the notion of ‘good’ deprives freedom of its essence,” he added.
“[Libertarianism] leads to the conclusion that everyone has the right to extend himself as far as his abilities allow him even at the cost of the exclusion and marginalization of the more vulnerable majority.”
What the heck is he talking about? There are two important conclusions you can make from his comments: he doesn’t know that libertarianism is not really popular and he has zero clue what libertarianism even is.
According to the pope, libertarianism’s freedom, non-aggression and individualism message threatens the “more vulnerable majority.” This suggests that he only believes that government mandates, coercion and violence as ways to protect these fragile snowflakes from the dangers of liberty. Moreover, who the heck is vulnerable? Capitalism has made everyone more prosperous, and global poverty rates are declining every year.
Robert Wenzel of the Economic Policy Journal also had a good point about his remarks:
“Finally, when the Pope brings up that the majority are vulnerable, it suggests a hidden Marxist perspective the Pope has that capitalists are somehow taking advantage of all.”
A Jesuit is a Marxist/communist, and it is easy to conclude that the pope hates capitalism and those selfish, greedy one percenters (what’s interesting is that he doesn’t think it’s greedy to want to steal from the rich as much as possible to give it to somebody else).
Moreover, the pope tends to believe that the cultural war consists of selfishness and the collective good. However, the real cultural war is between the population trying to lead their “selfish” lives peacefully and politicians who want to control their lives.
The Pope should stop commenting on topics he doesn’t grasp, like economics, and just concentrate on his Vatican wall, the Bible and molestation.
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