On 2013-12-12 10:17, General_Magician wrote:

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On 2013-12-11 23:42, mastermindreader wrote:
Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are in a great rage over this and claim that the Pope is an anti-American Marxist. (See what happens when you advocate for the poor and the disenfranchised? Wait 'til they find out what Jesus preached!)

I'm thinking they were secretly pulling for Miley.

Wait a second, doesn't Limbaugh and Glenn Beck know that Marxism advocates atheism! Surely, a Pope wouldn't advocate atheism would he? Otherwise, he wouldn't be a Pope then! It's impossible that he would be a "Marxist." Folks like Limbaugh and Glenn Beck seem to be crazy people that just come out of left field somewhere. Strange weird people they are to call a religious Pope an atheistic "Marxist."

On 2013-12-12 13:34, mastermindreader wrote:

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On 2013-12-12 10:17, General_Magician wrote:
... Folks like Limbaugh and Glenn Beck seem to be crazy people that just come out of left field somewhere.

Right field, actually.

Couldn't resist.

In a new interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Francis responded to allegations that he is a Marxist, after he recently criticized 'unfettered capitalism.'

The Pope told La Stampa that “Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended ... there is nothing in the exhortation that cannot be found in the social doctrine of the church.”

He was referring to an apostolic exhortation from November, in which he wrote, "As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems."

Another passage read, ""Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills."

The Pope's words received harsh criticism from American conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, who told his audience that ""this is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. Unfettered capitalism? That doesn't exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States. Unfettered, unregulated."