“Pope Francis believes that to bounce back from the COVID-19 social and economic crisis, the “dogmas” of “free market” and “neoliberalism” need to be left behind.On today’s episode of The Daily Objective, co-hosts Mark Pellegrino, Josh Dickson and Nikos discuss the Pope’s anti-capitalist stand.”

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In today’s episode, Mark, Josh and Nikos talked about the relationship between religion and capitalism, in particular the Pope’s attack on neoliberalism and free markets.

As usual, Mark had a lot of interesting things to say. Including:

• The Pope’s comments sound like pseudo-intellectual gibberish. Innovation is the way out of any crisis.
• Secularists don’t understand the nature of innovation either; they think it happens from the top down and don’t like the evolutionary way innovation happens in reality.
• The left uses language as a tool of dominance in an attempt to gain leverage over their ‘opponents’
• Capitalism is a natural evolution from the scientific revolution and the Renaissance.
• The encyclical is full of bad premises. As Rand always said: ‘check your premises!’