It's ridiculous really how much money the Vatican keeps, and how little of the money gets redistributed. For instance, there are 3 catholic high schools near me. Two very rich ones, and one very poor one. The poorer one is under a different archdiocese. The poor one just closed this year due to a lack of funding, just as one of the rich schools near me: 1) Renovated the football field 2)Installed new tvs in classrooms. 3)Put a fountain in the front. Now, I'm not saying that the parents who spend money to send their kids to the rich school should be also be covering the poor school costs, but I'm doubting the whole idea that the church is trying to give everybody, no matter what a class, a solid education. How hard is it for one diocese to give some of their excess money to another? Also, I'm convinced that the main reason that the church still makes priests take vows of chastity and poverty is because they don't want to pay the priests a large salary, and because they don't want to extend benefits (health, pension) to the clergy's wife and children.
He could roll the pages up into tiny tubes, and stick long needles in them, tipped with poison liquid, and then blow on the tubes to shoot an elephant. Assuming the book is about how to butcher an elephant (which I think is likely, no?), he could then butcher the elephant to feed the people. But alas, here's the question! What would happen when the elephant was butchered and Ghandi dies and nobody now knows how to butcher an elephant again!!!!! Starvation, that's what.
If they really want to follow in the footsteps of this Jesus fellow they talk about, then yes, they should. But they won't. Why? Because it's all a false front for a profitable business, and a mechnism of control.
Thought this was somewhat fitting to place in this thread. A good catholic response to the I hate religion but love Jesus video: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8dqnfz4y8uA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catholic church has done a lot of good. I'm saying this and I'm not even Catholic.
Particularly right after World War II, the United States and the West in general could have done a lot more to prevent global poverty than any world religion.
Sometimes I read some posts, and I get the feeling some people have noooooooooooo idea just how much of the world is poor.
