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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moth Catholic Churches do a pretty good job of not being too overtly political in my view.  Individual Catholics aside, I am talking about the priests and the general parish culture.

By the way, PP, Jesus said "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”  Christianity was and is revolutionary.  But "political and revolutionary"?  Nope.  Go read also the discussion between Jesus and Pilate in the Gospel of John.

If you want to be political, then be political.  But don't make your politics a false idol or twist Our Lord into some sort of proto-marxist.  [/quote]
Acts of the Apostles Ch2:
44All who believed were together and had all things in common; 45they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds* to all, as any had need

Isn't that Marxism? 🤔 Oh I will wait for the inevitable 'but but but that's different' which is always the go to for the Christian conservative.[/quote]

I don't recall anything in that passage about them giving all of their money to Rome and then vaguely hoping Rome would use it wisely.

In any event this is a long debate but we are Catholic.  Catholicism has a pretty clear and long intellectual tradition.  Was every Catholic intellectual from the founding of the Church until the development of Marxist doctrine just totally wrong?  That seems odd.  What about all the encyclicals specifically addressing socialist doctrine.  Were they all wrong too?  [/quote]

So you voluntarily live a very humble life because you donate so much money to the poor? Jesus was pretty clear several times about rich people needing to give away money and possessions.[/quote]

PP here.

I think that's in the eye of the beholder.  What's rich?  I would personally classify myself as rich but I am not rich by the standards of this forum.  I do live modestly for the area but not in comparison how people live in developing countries or historically.  Whether I give "enough" money is up to God in the end.  I am not sure what any of that has to do with forced extractions to fund a large federal bureaucracy.  ("Blessed are those who support increases in income tax rates to fund large secular governmental institutions."  Sounds odd.)

What about you PP?  You seem to enjoy judging people you've never met.  How are you doing and what's the state of your soul?  
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