{"id":8765,"date":"2013-09-24T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2013-09-24T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T23:18:32","slug":"playing-an-old-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/playing-an-old-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing an Old Tune?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/descamisados.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/descamisados-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"descamisados\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/descamisados-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/descamisados.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/359384\/playing-old-tune-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There are times, sadly, when the economic pronouncements of Pope Francis have more than a touch of Juan Per\u00f3n about them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nsnbc.me\/2013\/09\/24\/global-economy-based-god-called-money-said-pope-francis\/?utm_medium=twitter\">This <\/a>may be one of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe don\u00b4t want this globalized economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre as God wants, not money. . \u2026 The world has become an idolator of this god called money \u2026 It is not only a problem of Italy and Europe.. it is a consequence of a world choice, of an economic system that brings about tragedy, an economic system that has at its centre an idol which is called money\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Warnings of the way that money can be a source of spiritual corruption are, of course, nothing  new to Christianity (or, indeed, a good number of other religions). Just the other day the Pope was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romereports.com\/palio\/pope-francis-idolizing-money-is-the-root-of-all-evil-english-11055.html#.UkIb-_PD9aQ\">citing <\/a>(with, I feel, a degree of approval) the fact that some early church fathers had described money as \u2018the dung of the devil\u2019, but the reference to the evils of a \u2018globalized economic system\u2019 contained within this latest comment seems to be something a little different, a nod to the notion of economic autarky that was such a notable characteristic of the Argentina of Pope Francis\u2019s teenage years.<\/p>\n<p>And, no, it didn\u2019t work out so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: There are times, sadly, when the economic pronouncements of Pope Francis have more than a touch of Juan Per\u00f3n about them. This may be one of them. \u201cWe don\u00b4t want this globalized economic system which does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/playing-an-old-tune\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[1026,998,403,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}