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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Michael Savage: Pope Should Redistribute Vatican's Income First
Sunday, 11 May 2014 02:35 PM
By Greg Richter
Conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage says if Pope Francis wants
income redistribution he should start with his own Church.
On his Friday show, Savage said he would bid $1 million for Michelangelo's
famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
"The reason I'm offering that money to the pope and the Vatican is so they
can redistribute the wealth that begins in the Vatican itself," Savage said.
Savage said he was making a point that there is vast wealth within the
Catholic Church, including priceless works of art and major shares in global
companies. Gold ingots could be sold for redistribution purposes, Savage
said.
Francis on Friday told a group of U.N. delegates, including Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon, that they should urge world governments to back "the
legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state, as well as
indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil society."
Savage's response: "It's Karl Marx in a papal outfit."
He noted that Francis is from Argentina, home to liberation theology along
with much of Latin America, in the 1960s and '70s. And although Francis
himself never practiced liberation theology, "he was certainly shaped by it,
" Savage said.
Liberation theology focuses on the plight of the poor, though critics such
as Savage have long claimed it is Christianized Marxism.
Savage said he already pays 39.7 percent federal tax and 13 percent state
tax in California as well as various local taxes.
"But that's not enough for the pope or Obama or the other Marxists on the
planet," he said. "How does the pope differ from the Occupy Movement?"
The Catholic Church, he said, opposed Marxism "until this pope."
Though various Catholic priests throughout Central and South America have
championed liberation theology, the Vatican itself has opposed what it has
termed Marxist elements.
Savage accused Francis of violating the "separation of church and state" and
warned he's heard the same talk from Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon
Trotsky. Their ideas led to the deaths of millions, he said.
Savage also suggested Francis is trying to unify the masses in South America
and Africa and get the haves to rise up against the have-nots.
"He's trying to cover up some Vatican scandal," he said. |
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