Hugo Chavez is dead

[Rev. Rye]

The Bible does not teach that there should be a centralized state that redistributes wealth and takes control of property (although it does talk about redistribution of wealth in the Old Testament). It is more like a hostility to greed and materialism and an acceptance of love and charity and a suspicion of self interested values, although I think Christianity and capitalism can exist together.

Of course, the Bible doesn't really teach much in the way of political theory; and given the fact that every iteration of the state of Israel in the Bible is said to have collapsed underneath its own weight, I can't be too surprised at that.