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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Keith Lockitch discuss the recently published encyclical by Pope Francis, “Fratelli Tutti” (“All Brothers”). They argue that this document is an attack on freedom and capitalism, but is consistent with the Christian worldview.
Among the topics covered:
- The main concern raised by the Pope: the political and social division, and what he believes is the cause of the problem (individualism);
- His proposed solution: charity and “solidarity”, both private and governmental;
- A question that the Pope does not ask but should: what is the source of wealth?
- How Marxism stole the deeply Christian idea that property rights are expendable and that we have a duty to share wealth with the poor;
- Ayn Rand’s comments on an earlier encyclical, “Populorum Progressio” (1967), where he criticized many of the same ideas in today’s Pope Francis document.
In the discussion they mention the last encyclical of the Pope, the novel by Ayn Rand. The rebellion of Atlas, his essays “Requiem for Man” in Capitalism: the unknown ideal and “Of Living Death” in the Voice of reason, the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “religion” and Onkar Ghate’s article “Finding happiness and morality without God.”
This podcast was recorded on October 14, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Check out the archived podcasts here.
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