While exhorting his followers to continue the mass imprisonment of millions of people the world over with more "drug war" insanity, the Pope added this ironic statement.
"Often a growing sense of loneliness and emptiness in the hearts of many people leads them to seek satisfaction in these ephemeral idols,” the homily added.
http://www.rawstory.com/...
Beside the fact that the premise is false - that emptiness and loneliness, not poverty, leads to drug (idol?)
abuse arrest - May I Ask:
What is this?!
Or this?
Or all these?
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. -Luke 6:37
Maybe the Pope should worry more about stopping his priests from raping children. But of course the Second Holy Inquisition, the Holy Drug War, is another critical medium through which the Church centralizes their power, which is quite in contract to the original teachings.
Elaine Pagels of Princeton teaches in peer-reviewed academic format the real story of early Christianity, in "The Gnostic Gospels"...
http://theknowledgeden.com/...
Ms Pagels explains what this Pope's ecclesiastical ancestors, which she calls the "orthodox," a martyr-obsessed lot, did to the original Christian sects, including the Gnostics: they killed and imprisoned them.
Some things never change.