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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Yes, Pope Francis is a Socialist

You’ve heard of “legitimate rape,” now meet its state-sanctioned cousin, “legitimate robbery.” Or, at least, hear it in the euphemized form pronounced by the People’s Pope, Pope Francis: “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State.”
For those of you mainstreamers who actually believed the media when they condemned Sarah Palin for calling this guy a “liberal”—folks, that was mild, and for whatever her faults and foibles otherwise may be, Palin should never have apologized for that statement. And for those of you, also, who actually believed this Pope when he assured the world he is no communist—only “caring for the poor”—well, let’s talk a little bit about walking and quacking, shall we?
Whether something wears the label of “communist,” or “socialist,” or “liberal,” or not, doesn’t matter. What matters is substance of their social ethics. As I argue throughout God vs. Socialism, the moment the state begins to redistribute wealth for any reason other than punishment for crime (and that only in very specified ways), it is defying the biblical doctrine of private property, defying biblical law, defying God. I label such activity by the state “socialism,” and I argue it applies across the board whether any given version of the practice meets certain technical definitions of “socialism,” “communism,” “liberation theology,” etc., used by some today.
I don’t care about the labels. I care about the substance.