Vatican Calls for World Central Bank

[green73]

The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a "global public authority" and a "central world bank" to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises.

A major document from the Vatican's Justice and Peace department should be music to the ears of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.

The 18-page document, "Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority," was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions.

"The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence," it said.

It condemned what it called "the idolatry of the market" as well as a "neo-liberal thinking" that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems.

"In fact, the crisis has revealed behaviors like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale," it said, adding that world economics needed an "ethic of solidarity" among rich and poor nations.


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http://www.cnbc.com/id/45013499

 

[hazek]

Did you hear that you mundane? Your "God" wants you to be a good slave to the religious institution that you so vehemently believe in and show your support for this idea, and if you want to get into the heaven you better do it or else you'll land in hell!.. But remember, your "God" loves you regardless.



Seriously, when will people wake up to the fact that every religion and it's books and beliefs are just another institution that they were enslaved by? Might this article do the trick?

Might this video help in doing the trick?



Oh how right you were George:

When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!

RIP Geroge.

 

[Kords21]

Absolutely nothing nefarious will come from this. Afterall, look how well the world was when the church was in power over Europe. Bring back the good old days! (end sarcasm). Funny how history has kind of glosssed over the Church backing the Nazis.

 

[Demigod]

FUCK the Vatican.

They have been the plague of Europe for a very long time.Now there are 5 law suits against them with proofs that most of the nazis gold ended up there.

And what kind of man of god is the pope when he hides behind bullet-proof glass.

 

[pcosmar]

Not surprised.
was expecting it.

 

[Kords21]

I've always found it interesting that one of the world's wealthiest institutions makes it's clergy take a vow of poverty and the areas of the world where Catholics are the dominant religion is always so poor and miserable.

 

[Kords21]

Penn & teller did a good show on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuSHRdm5Oq0&feature=youtu.be

 

[Demigod]

I've always found it interesting that one of the world's wealthiest institutions makes it's clergy take a vow of poverty and the areas of the world where Catholics are the dominant religion is always so poor and miserable.

Have you been to the Vatican?

GOLD everywhere

 

[crhoades]

I would be interested in getting Tom Woods take on this.

 

[pmbug]

NWO holla!

 

[Krugerrand]

I haven't read it ... but this looks to be the actual text for those interested:
http://www.news.va/en/news/full-text-note-on-financial-reform-from-the-pontif

 

[jmdrake]

Did you hear that you mundane? Your "God" wants you to be a good slave to the religious institution that you so vehemently believe in and show your support for this idea, and if you want to get into the heaven you better do it or else you'll land in hell!.. But remember, your "God" loves you regardless.



Seriously, when will people wake up to the fact that every religion and it's books and beliefs are just another institution that they were enslaved by? Might this article do the trick?

When will people wake up and realize that every movement in the world, whether it's a "religious" movement or a secular one, can be co-opted and warped? Religion isn't the problem. Hierarchies, religious or otherwise, are the problem. Jesus specifically taught His followers not to set up a hierarchy. But that happened anyway.

 

[green73]

I would be interested in getting Tom Woods take on this.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/10/tom-woods-on-latest-from-vatican.html

 

[hazek]

When will people wake up and realize that every movement in the world, whether it's a "religious" movement or a secular one, can be co-opted and warped? Religion isn't the problem. Hierarchies, religious or otherwise, are the problem. Jesus specifically taught His followers not to set up a hierarchy. But that happened anyway.

Doesn't it bother you that the way your religion is taught, the way the Bible is written allowed this co option of the highest authority in the most influential religious institution in the world to happen making it the most corrupt? Doesn't it bother you that although there are some universally good ethical advice in what you believe that there's also stuff in there criminals can use to manipulate people and rob them of their freedom and wealth? You know, kind of like the U.S. Constitution?

Doesn't that bother you at all?

 

[Krugerrand]

Doesn't it bother you that the way your religion is taught, the way the Bible is written allowed this co option of the highest authority in the most influential religious institution in the world to happen making it the most corrupt? Doesn't it bother you that although there are some universally good ethical advice in what you believe that there's also stuff in there criminals can use to manipulate people and rob them of their freedom and wealth? You know, kind of like the U.S. Constitution?

Doesn't that bother you at all?

I think you may be making some bad assumptions on jmdrake's religious beliefs.

 

[Krugerrand]

When will people wake up and realize that every movement in the world, whether it's a "religious" movement or a secular one, can be co-opted and warped? Religion isn't the problem. Hierarchies, religious or otherwise, are the problem. Jesus specifically taught His followers not to set up a hierarchy. But that happened anyway.

When I read your post, what first came to mind was the Hebrew people turning down their God's advice against choosing a king, thus Saul was anointed.

 

[DamianTV]

There you have it. Your orders are to be a mundane. A religious mundane to the Big Church that doesn't represent God or its own religion, and a mundane to the Banks to be their financial slave. Now, go back to your School and get an education that is paid for by the Banks, *ahem*, excuse me, not a School, but your Indoctrination Center, and be an Intellectual Slave as well mundane. Get to it!

 

[jmdrake]

Doesn't it bother you that the way your religion is taught, the way the Bible is written allowed this co option of the highest authority in the most influential religious institution in the world to happen making it the most corrupt? Doesn't it bother you that although there are some universally good ethical advice in what you believe that there's also stuff in there criminals can use to manipulate people and rob them of their freedom and wealth? You know, kind of like the U.S. Constitution?

Doesn't that bother you at all?

Do you have a way to draft a document in such a way that it is flexible enough to meet the needs of a changing society that evolves over centuries and yet is rigid enough that people claiming to follow it can't corrupt the institution set up to follow it? I'm willing to bet the answer to that question is "no". But prove me wrong. Anything that's written is open to interpretation. But the worst part about both the U.S. constitution and the Bible isn't how they were written but that most people who claim to be living by them haven't read it. People think some things must be constitutional because they've been "done that way" long enough that "it must be true". The value of a constitution is to have at least something to point to and say "We shouldn't be doing that". The works of Ayn Rand are probably open to interpretation as well.

 

[musicmax]

 

[KingRobbStark]

I laugh when the vatican talks about outdated institutions.