Most Glaring Obstacle To Christianity On Earth Is... The Largest "Church" On Earth

The Pope's Thanksgiving Message???

Pope decries that ‘wealthy few’ feast on what belongs to all (From Associated Press)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Championing the cause of the poor, Pope 
Francis on Sunday lamented that “the wealthy few” enjoy what, 
“in justice, belongs to all” and said Christians cannot remain 
indifferent to the growing cries of the exploited and the indigent, 
including migrants.

Francis invited about 6,000 poor people as well as some 
of the volunteers who help them to the splendor of St. Peter’s 
Basilica where he celebrated Mass on a day the Catholic 
Church dedicates to the needy. Later, he sat down with 1,500 
of the indigent for a lunch of lasagna, chicken, mashed 
potatoes and tiramisu in a Vatican auditorium.

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This propaganda sounds so compassionate and sincere, but the truth is, the Pope's criticisms of other nations, and then feeding 1,500 "indigent" and "needy" in Vatican City, in the heart of Rome, and his criticism of "indifferent Christians" and "the wealthy few", is a world class contradiction. The fact is that Vatican City is the richest nation on earth when you include into the equation that all the other nations are deeply in debt. Some of them couldn't pay off their debt if they sold the entire nation at market value. The U.S. debt is close to 200 $trillion if you count unfunded obligations like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Federal retirement liabilities etc. But Vatican City holds the purse strings to property, gold, stocks, bonds and other wealth reaching into the hundreds of trillions of dollars, aren't selling any of it to feed the poor, and aren't in debt. So his assertion that "The wealthy few enjoy what belongs to all" is a ricocheted shot glancing off the truth and hitting him in the heart.

And when he complains about not taking in "migrants", Vatican City takes in none, not one. No wonder most of the world views all of "professing" Christendom as hypocritical counterfeits. When you add in much of world Protestantism's wealth and that of conspicuous, Multi-$millionaire TV preachers, it compounds the contradiction. If the Vatican didn't take the right stand on abortion, it would have no redeeming qualities at all. Poverty is seldom worse than in Catholic dominated countries. Who on earth is more lavishly clothed, better fed and generously cared for than the Roman Pope? Jesus didn't even have a pillow (luke 9:58). By that measurement we are all inconsistent. RB

Here is Avro Manhattan's observation of the greatest religious contradiction on earth, the Pope's supreme, international, corporate, City-State Nation, Vatican City. Could its market value reach a $Quadrillion? RB

“The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. 

“The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.” (...) 

“Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely ‘that his church probably ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual purchase.’ 

“Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. ‘The Catholic church,’ he said, ‘must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.’” (...) 

“The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican’s financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.” (...) 

“The Vatican’s treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. 

“But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.” (...) 

“The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. 

“The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.” (...) 

“Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. (…) How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?” 
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My Comment:
Nobody needs "religion" but we all need Christ. If you are not a true believer, would you pray this prayer, in sincerity? "God, if you are real, please open my spiritual eyes to see the truth, and I will believe." RB