RE: The further you get from the political centre the more lies you encounter.
September 15, 2012 at 2:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2012 at 2:36 am by Justtristo.)
(September 15, 2012 at 1:11 am)TaraJo Wrote:(September 15, 2012 at 12:40 am)Justtristo Wrote: Well they are real socialists (often Marxist in orientation), who believe in the government (in their eyes collective) ownership of the means of production and distribution. I have encountered these people in my life, while I have no encountered Christian Conservatives.
Interesting; especially in that, if you read the New Testament, Jesus and his apostles and everyone who spread his word, they all lived while depending on the rest of society to feed/cloth/shelter them. If anything, fundamentalist Christians should be the socialists; instead, they fear that word like the plague.
There have been plenty of Evangelical Christians who were and are Socialists. For example; these sort of Christians formed a large slice of the activist base of the Labour parties in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Anyway at least in Australia Evangelical Christians, while being very conservative on social issues, hold positions on other issues little different from the rest of the population.
* One of the founders of the Communist Party of Australia John Garden was an Baptist Minister.
(September 15, 2012 at 2:06 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:If anything, fundamentalist Christians should be the socialists; instead, they fear that word like the plague.
You don't understand the xtian capacity to reinvent their god whenever necessary, my dear.
Read the Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03...anken.html
I like this Supply Side Jesus, because the New Testament Jesus talks about greed being idolatry, not to mention exhorting people to give all their possessions away in order to get into the kingdom of his father.
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