Pope Francis warned against
worshiping money during his weekly general audience on
Wednesday, stressing that "idols require blood".
"In ancient times human sacrifices were made to idols but
even today people sacrifice their children for their careers,
neglecting them or simply refusing to have them," the Argentine
pontiff said in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall in his first general
audience after the July break.
"Money robs us of life, and pleasure leads to loneliness.
"Economic structures sacrifice human lives for better
profits.
"One lives in hypocrisy, doing and saying what others expect
of us, because the god of self-affirmation imposes it. And lives
are ruined; families are destroyed; and young people are
abandoned to destructive habits, all to increase profit".
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