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Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism

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The latest call for a youth uprising against global capitalism came not from grassroots groups, but from the leader of the Catholic Church, who on Sunday gave a rousing speech during which he told a crowd of young people in Paraguay that it is their time to "make a mess."

The address marked the end of Pope Francis' week-long pilgrimage to Latin America, during which he also assailed the prevailing economic system as the "dung of the devil," saying that the systemic "greed for money" is a "subtle dictatorship" that "condemns and enslaves men and women."

During Sunday's rally, which was held on the banks of the Paraguay River outside the capital Asunción, the Argentinian pontiff went off-script as he addressed tens of thousands of local youth.

"They wrote a speech for me to give you. But speeches are boring," Pope Francis said. "Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up. A mess which gives us a free heart, a mess which gives us solidarity, a mess which gives us hope."



 

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This guy is turning out to be a destructive jerk of the first order. The trouble with saying "capitalism is dung" and "make a mess....but clean it up," and saying the "prevailing economic system as the "dung of the devil," (actually he is correct as it is crony capitalism sponsored by govt) saying that the systemic "greed for money" is a "subtle dictatorship" that "condemns and enslaves men and women," is the that the receivers of this crap will walk away with the idea that he deserves someone else's wealth, to be taken away at gunpoint. A society of pillage will never move humanity forward. All his thinking leads us to the Soviet Union all over again. The death, the destruction of human beings and their dreams, the death of the individual, these are just too much to bear from this destructive pope - and only the naive youth would buy such a message. They will learn, in a decade or two, they are no better off for pursuing such policies (if they in fact do so). The Popes message leads to poverty and death.



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