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I ardently desire to have Him as my Savior, Whom I am unable to withstand as my Judge.

Interesting, I wonder if there is a way to increase the truthfulness of responses? Anonymous questioners? I know the way I answer depends on who’s asking.

Same here. Christ always offers a third way. One of the first things I noticed when reading the gospels, the pharisees always try to trap him and he always gives them an answer outside of the false framework.

B/c they are skewed? Or biased?

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Commenting here because I'm sure YT will censor it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/kQTuhET17f4?feature=share

Public hanging. It used to be a thing, and I think it needs to be a thing again. Slow, methodical, with a cleric there to take confession before they go to die. Those who are convicted of possession of CP should be required to go to the hangings.

(I might support a hard labor sentence for something short of trafficking and direct abuse.)

Agreed

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Argentina will likely go through a hyperinflationary event soon. Our pontiff is an Argentinean. Although he has not even visited his home in the ten years of his reign, I am hoping that this event at a minimum catches his attention.

I believe the Church should condemned fiat currency as a lie and theft of the highest degree. Fiat is a tool for mass slavery of a citizenry by their government.

Nicole Oresme, 1325-1382AD, wrote a treatise on money called 'De Moneta' or 'The Mint'. In it he condemns altering money and profiting from said changes, which is identical to printing fiat. Just read the titles of chapters XV-XVIII.

Can we not say that removing the backing of the USD by gold is exactly what Oresme condemns in chapters VII-XIV?

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VIII On Alterations in Coinage in general

IX Change of Form

X Change of Ratio

XI Change of Name

XII Change of Weight

XIII Change of Material

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Money, at its essence, is information, a record or account of good done to one another. Gold was a really good money, as it does not decay, is difficult to fake, is measurable and somewhat divisible, but it does not transport well. To represent gold paper money was used, but gold was the actual money, not the paper. Paper was the currency of the money, the form in which it is exchanged*.

By removing the backing of the dollar, the information of good one does for others ceased to be represented in gold and became instead a fiat, a dictation of the government which only says "I'm worth a dollar". This was and still is a theft of the largest magnitude, an entire nations earnings and savings in the currency robbed of them.

This grave sin was orders of magnitude worse than what only might have been committed by the inspiration of Oresme's treatise, a French king who inquired with Oresme about the ethical nature of modifying the money of his subjects. He might have stolen a small portion of the money from his people, but our governments today have stolen much more.

In addition to this, the governments now allow local banks to commit similar theft worse than usury in the form of fractional reserve lending. This further multiplies the available currency another order of magnitude, and possibly more than one after it compounds, and further robs the citizens of their former wealth.

We ought to implore the Church to condemn fiat currencies and fractional reserve lending as fraudulent, a grave sin committed upon a people.

In the meantime, a solution must be pursued, which I believe to be Bitcoin. It is not a fiat currency, because it relies not on an authority to lend value to it, but derives it's value directly from a society's desire for it. It is very difficult to create, highly liquid and divisible, has no decay, and will maintain its value.

The De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents, PDF and epub here:

https://mises.org/library/de-moneta-nicholas-oresme-and-english-mint-documents

*Along this line, #BTCLN is the currency of #BTC. It is backed 1:1 and thus good. This not to condemn representative currency, just debasing it or altering the form.

#Catholic #Christian #fiat #Bitcoin #argentina #popeFrancis #CB #lightningNetwork

I literally just had this discussion with another Catholic. Well put and good resources.

They needed to take the breaks off

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I’d be so down for that. Wish they would have tought it in school