{"id":941,"date":"2019-02-20T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/?page_id=941"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:33:09","slug":"a-reversal-of-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/a-reversal-of-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reversal Of Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Pope urges more sharing and giving.<\/p>\n

How wonderful.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201ca few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive,\u201d he laments.<\/p>\n

He says Christianity pointed to a new way to live \u201cnot by devouring and hoarding, but by sharing and giving\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is rich (!) when remembering that historically it was the Church that amassed (!) all the wealth while the common folk lived in poverty.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not sure much has changed. However much money you and I have, it\u2019s a drop in the ocean to the amount of money and resources that the Vatican has.<\/p>\n

So I think we should look at this, if you would indulge me, a little differently.<\/p>\n

I know that the pope does give charity, but then so do I.<\/p>\n

But I wonder whether percentage-of-total-money-that-we-have wise, I don\u2019t give more money to charity than he does.<\/p>\n

In which case instead of preaching to me, he should be practicing what I already do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pope urges more sharing and giving. How wonderful. \u00a0\u201ca few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive,\u201d he laments. He says Christianity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualthinking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}