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Friday, May 31, 2013

Papal Truths

It is not often that socialists will agree with the Roman Catholic church but on this occasion we are in accord with their position.

Archbishop Chullikatt, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, in an speech to the general assembly, said:-
 “Hunger is one of the world's most solvable problems," and pointed out that "per capita food production has steadily risen and total world food production now exceeds what is needed to give every person sufficient food and nutrition." He said that ending hunger -- which can be addressed today -- is not the same as providing better health care, which often depends on "looking toward technologies or cures yet to come or not currently available."

The problem, he said, is not a lack of food production.

"In face of the world's hungry, the grotesque spectacle of foodstuffs being forcibly destroyed in order to preserve higher market prices for producers, primarily in developed countries, constitutes a reprehensible practice which prioritizes economic profit over the needs of those starving," Archbishop Chullikatt said.
The lack of access to adequate food and nutrition was "a moral and humanitarian crisis exacerbated by man-made policies and practices" such as failing to provide access to markets for producers in developing countries, diverting food resources from consumption to energy production, waste of food resources and armed conflicts.

In a speech the Pope explained that  "We have created new idols. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."

The economic crisis had created fear and desperation, diminished joy of life and increased violence and poverty as more people struggled to get by in "undignified" ways, the pope said. In many cases, the value of people was judged by their ability to consume.

"While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling." Speaking of financial markets he said: "A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules."

In the same month that Pope Francis was offering all us atheistic materialists a place in Heaven (later to be overturned by his Papal handlers - so much for infallibility!) we now have the Catholic church exposing the capitalist system as the cause of misery and the  culprit in the global murder of the innocents.

The anarchist Emma Goldman once said “I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.”
Perhaps we now have an ally in the task of undoing god's work in the pope !!

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