Wealthy Americans Prove Pope Francis’ Point by Threatening Economic Blackmail

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32. My post is about greedy rich who ignore the poor & Jesus' teachings on same.

Where are YOU coming from? There is not one single reference to birth control, extramarital sex, abortion or same-sex marriage in my post. After 16 years of formal Catholic education, I personally am agnostic and happen to support the use of birth control, freedom of choice re abortion and same sex marriage. Very curious how & why you slipped extramarital sex in there. I'm well aware of cafeteria Catholics - was one myself until I left the Church. But I never, NEVER, saw or heard any Catholic try to slip extra-marital sex into the cafeteria selection.
Basically my point is that great wealth corrupts. Try to focus. Try to keep up. If you want to talk about those other topics, start your own thread or respond to a thread dealing with those topics.

Returning to the topic of greed & the teachings of Jesus, I quote Will Pitt:
More than a million people lost their unemployment benefits today, because Supply-Side Jesus says helping the needy is no longer the Christian thing to do. By way of contrast:
Deut. 15 : 7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

Lev. 19 : 19 Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger.

1 John 3 : 17 But if someone who is supposed to be a Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won't help him--how can God's love be within him?

Prov. 14 : 31 Anyone who oppresses the poor is insulting God who made them. To help the poor is to honor God.

Prov. 21 : 13 He who shuts his ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in his own time of need.

Luke 3 : 11 "If you have two coats," he replied, "give one to the poor. If you have extra food, give it away to those who are hungry."
2 Cor. 9 : 9 It is as the Scriptures say: "The godly man gives generously to the poor. His good deeds will be an honor to him forever."

Isa. 58 : 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and bring right into your own homes those who are helpless, poor, and destitute. Clothe those who are cold, and don't hide from relatives who need your help

Luke 6 : 20-21. Blessed are you who are poor, for yours in the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Prov. 22 : 9 He who is generous will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.

Ezek. 22 : 29,31. "The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice... Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads," declares the Lord GOD.

James 5 : 1-6. Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. ...Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and with you have withheld, cries out against you; and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.