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Pope says financial crisis shows money an illusion
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by Amitjha | October 6, 2008 at 03:33 am
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Pope is in agressive mood in this tour, firstly he lamented the this generations attitude towards the god, and now he is saying that money is an illusion.God knows,Money is an illusion or the image of God created by Vatican in hundreds of year is an illusion.Whole Vatican is the example of extreme luxury, can Mr pope shed some of his luxuries before breaking the illusion of money.
Pope Benedict said on Monday that the global financial crisis showed that faith in God trumped a lifetime spent pursuing material wealth.
"We see it now in the collapse of the great banks that money disappears, it's nothing," the Pontiff said.
The global financial turmoil, the worst since the Great Depression, has wiped away hundreds of billions of euros (dollars) in shareholder wealth and felled banking institutions that just months ago seemed untouchable.
The pontiff, using a biblical metaphor, said people who ignored the word of God to pursue wealth had effectively built their homes on sand instead of on a solid foundation of faith.
It was a possible reference to the collapse of the U.S. housing market, which triggered the financial crisis.
"Whoever builds his life on this reality, on material things, on success ... builds (his house) on sand. Only the word of God is the foundation of all reality," he said.
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at 05:01 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
The Church is not built on money....it is built on faith....we have faith in the Church and proof shows from the Financial Crisis that we can not have faith in money....What is troubling is that although faith is more than money.... the violence that occurs in getting money; it seems the Church and its members in the United States have supported Violence for the USA upon their said perceived enemies......By supporting the Republican Party who wages war; pictures of the Pope with President Bush the Violence Purveyor of the world is not difficult to find.
If the Church and its millions of members did not support this run away military machine under Bush in the US that is always harping on war upon war upon war; perhaps the Financial Institutes would not have fallen.....
I do not believe that the fallen markets are because of the love of money....more than the support of legalization of illegal violence to wage false and lying excuses to go to war. This means the inexcusable investment and buildup of the US military God-zilla.
Come on Pope Benedict.....even Pope John knows better...whence the winds blows.
Rev. Jermano
God Bless
at 20:43 on October 6th, 2008
thanks djermano,
This is really very strange, if i am not wrong faith is the outcome of insecurity regarding future, we want to be secure physically as well as psychologically, the whole problem starts from this simple but very genuine problem.well it not just about pope and American so called war against terror, but we can easily find several examples from accross the world, we in india lost several lives in recent days just fighting on yhe name of relogion.i dont know much about religion but what ever i have observed in my small life, that cleary says this institution should be abolished, slowly slowly.
at 02:07 on October 7th, 2008
faith is not the outcome of insecurity regarding the future... faith is knowing what you do now will assure a future...
Blaming religion for acts of terror is not correct. We could have nonreligious being attacked by nonreligious and the method is still terror. The point is terror is the problem...not religious or nonreligious....The point is accepting Nonviolence as the answer to the cause for supporting humanity...whether you call that a religion or not.... People are so out of touch with themselves and their responsibilty to other people instead of themselves..... We need to care for each other....this is our only purpose. Religion is good if we acknowledge Nonviolence as it's base.
Rev. Jermano
God Bless
at 08:21 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:28 on October 6th, 2008
It's oil. Oil is the world currency.
at 08:30 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
gorgeous story amit. well if Pope is correct then the church should donate all the propety it has around the world and that too in prime location.If money is illusion pope should direct its patrician brothers running public schools to teach the poor kids in those schools and not to have a different hindi medium school for the class 4 staff of the same school.In india what happens is That in missionary schools the children of the staff working there like the cook,mess bearer do not study in the same school.they have seperate school nearby while the rich people from delhi or bombay study in the actual school. So pope this is the biggest illusion there can ever be
at 20:54 on October 6th, 2008
Thanks azzyindia for such a nice comment,
well why we need to raise quiestion regarding anybodies intention to do religious practices, if that is the case as you say then, this is not relogion but trade, so they shoud be taxed, wheter hindu muslim or christian
at 08:34 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:07 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff. Behold the lilies of the field. Problem is I'm not a lily and the supermarket won't give me free food. For a clergyman to state that money is an illusion while wearing bespoke shoes that would feed a third world family for a good part of the year, shows that his head is already in the clouds.
at 21:01 on October 6th, 2008
Thanks Barbara ,
welll my intention is not to raise question regarding popes or vetican life style and their hold on public psyche, but the futility of all the religious institutions of whole world.they are fooling people from last 2000 years on so called pseudo realities beyond the comprehension. This fear and reward game lost its credibility now, it is the time when we let the people be a in complete with nature with their own tool of observence.
at 09:32 on October 6th, 2008
Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff. As the Panzer pope says: "money, power and homosexuality are not all in in Life" In India, the rich people have the most gold of the world on swiss banks, they don't share it. The meaning behind is also, money as we know it, will disappear, replaced by exchange values. What value can you have instead, a Life project.
at 21:08 on October 6th, 2008
Thanks SOLARLIFE,
you are absolutely right, iy is story of every religious institution across the world, in the home of collective equality we see most extreme form of ineqality.as fsr sa india is concerned sitution is more complex, due to several religions and thousands of god.It is a big industry of religion based fear trade.,and with unlimited tax holiday.
at 09:48 on October 6th, 2008
The Pope in theory is right but the word is "Greed" as the cause of the financial meltdown. And I don't think he is a fan of Prez Bush.
at 21:12 on October 6th, 2008
tanks merlingraycat,
The pope is right in theory, what his theory has one big exception and that is THE VATICAN, what kind of relation pope has with Bush, it does not matter much, whloe philosphy of relogion has been distorted by these so called messiah of religion. same is the story every where in the world.
at 19:00 on December 4th, 2008
How soon you forget about the example of Mother Theresa.