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1 shecky  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 8:55:22am

Who will comfort the comfortable?

2 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 9:42:05am

Oh great whiny-assed rich dudes complaining about the Pope.

I don’t think you can get much more pathetic.

3 nines09  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 9:52:11am

I feel so bad for the ultra rich who decide that they are above criticism as they criticize and step on others. “Keep talking like that and we just might stop caring about you less than we do now.”

4 sagehen  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 9:59:51am

This man is seriously lobbying the cardinal? Like he’s a senate staffer who can tell the boss “yo, pope, here’s what the donors want or they won’t be with you next election…”

5 mechanic  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 10:02:53am

He likes rattling his jewelry.

6 jvic  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 10:37:15am

1. Two examples, bookends as it were, of US political discourse:

a. Supposedly, one gaffe unmasks a philanthropist as a “sociopath”.

b. Supposedly, people who use the safety net don’t really need it. They are lazy or drug addicts.

2. Benjamin Franklin warned that at some point only despotic government is feasible. I don’t know how close we are to that point, but we are closer than when Bill Clinton left office.

3. My disposition is not a contentious one. Nevertheless, at some point one has to speak up. Besides, afaic what ails the USA is more serious than partisan differences; the unbridled partisanship is a symptom of some deeper, as yet undiagnosed dysfunction.

7 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 11:15:24am
a donor who could give millions of dollars to the cathedral project

But that’s for stained glass windows, not food for poor people.

8 sunnygal  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 11:58:41am

How ironic that this rich man has overlooked the passage in the Bible where Jesus tells a rich man that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into Heaven, thus exemplifying Jesus’ remarks.

9 Interesting Times  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 2:46:35pm

Well then - given how rich this Langone asshole is, I’m sure he doesn’t need a peon like me shopping at his store.

(on another note, I wonder if too much money eventually rots one’s critical thinking skills - all Langone is doing with this pissy, petulant move is proving Pope Francis was right all along!)

10 andres  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 4:54:29pm

re: #8 sunnygal

That’s precisely the problem, he emulated Thomas Jefferson, but instead of cutting out all the supernatural, he cut out everything that inconvenience him.

And in the Randian Bible, that parable doesn’t exist.

11 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 7:40:06pm

Langone: I has moneys now! So, the Pope must be nice to meez. Or else!

Pope: We’ve managed quite well for almost two thousand years without you. Ba-bye! Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.

12 Danforth  Wed, Jan 1, 2014 9:49:33pm
But that’s for stained glass windows, not food for poor people

Excellent point. If I give to non-profits whose main purpose is to deny a large swath of our brethren equal rights, does that qualify as “charity”? If my donations go to build a gilded mega-church, is that “charity” anywhere other than the tax code? And if—in the real world—lawyer’s fees for illegal activities aren’t deductible, do they suddenly become “charity” if I give to pay for the legal fees of the local Catholic kid-diddler?

Unfortunately, the term has become bastardized. Charity should be for good works, nothing else. If you want a monument, or extra-legal protections, or codified hate, find some other word.


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