Christian ideology a "serious illness" - Pope :s

The Pope has gone all leftie and has actually said something worth listening too. He's been going around making slightly friendly noises about gays recently, and now he's come up with criticisms of the brand of Christianity that defines itself in the ideology of capitalism; namely, that the system encourages selfishness and inequality (no shit Sherlock). He even goes as far as to call this ideological Christianity as a "serious illness".

At last Thursday’s mass, the Pope said that “when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought… For this reason Jesus said to them: ‘You have taken away the key of knowledge.’ The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.” 

“The faith becomes ideology and ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people, distances, distances the people and distances of the Church of the people,” Pope Francis I said. “But it is a serious illness, this of ideological Christians. It is an illness, but it is not new, eh?” more

Yes, I had to do a double take on that one too. I can see what he's getting at though. I mean you only have to look at Australia's wonderful christian example of Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison to realise that their particular brand of Christianity is a serious illness. One wonders how a christian (including Rudd) could treat people the way these two do. They've at least got a few screws loose.

So where is the christian outrage? All I can see are non-christians shrugging their shoulders like "typical".

Yet we have Morrison jailing kids and separating them from parents, and Abbott setting about trying to turn Australia into some kind of lap dog capitalist slave to US multinational corporations. In so he's trampling all over our climate initiatives, not to mention the poor. Ripping the guts out of gov, like the Alcohol and Drug Commission that's been around for 46 years giving valuable advice and resources to the gov and community. Abbott's cut funding and it's finished, after 46 years. This can only be socially destructive.

But that's what ideology is all about isn't it. It's not about helping people, it's about following a rigid and unbend-able set of rules and woe to all who don't follow those rules. 

Apparently calling someone a liar and then lying yourself is part of this Christianity as well.