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reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:18 PM by ImAnAlienOnMyOwnPlanet
reply to post by camaro68ss



Wow! I'm shock to see all the anger I get for embracing Socialist politics and believing Jesus was a Socialist! People! I know politics is a very touchy subject to discuss and like sports we prefer to fight then talk. But we need understanding here.
Socialism 101



reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:18 PM by MurderCityDevil
reply to post by camaro68ss



yeah i know, but it made me laugh a little

not attacking what you said, hah


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:20 PM by JudgedCover
Originally posted by MurderCityDevil
Originally posted by camaro68ss
Jesus was not a socialist! He was a Christian with Christian values in giving and helping the poor. Socialism is the government taking your money and spending, giving to who they see fit.

Jesus if alive and walking today on earth would not need the government to take his money to give to other. Jesus today would give directly to the poor and cut out government all together. You don’t need the government to help other people and by god I don’t want the government taking my hard earned money and giving it to other. I should have the right to decide whether or not I want to give my money to the poor or needy without giving it to the government first.

Jesus was not a socialist, he did not force you to give him money so he can give your money to others!



jesus was not christian, hahaha

it wasnt until in acts that paul and barnabas coined the term christian

40 years after the dude was murdered

just saying, not defending the guy


Paul and Barnabas did not coin that term. Unbelievers in the ancient city of Antioch did. The early Christians referred to themselves as followers of "the Way". Basically, those outside the faith used that term because the way these people spoke, lived and interacted with each other reminded them of that Jesus fellow.

What a novel idea. In this age when the term Christian is tossed around like a $3 dollar whore, that non-believers should have ownership of the term "Christian" to bestow on those whose LIFESTYLE reminds them of Jesus...well I imagine there would only be about 12 Christians in the world...


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:22 PM by snusfanatic
reply to post by ImAnAlienOnMyOwnPlanet



dude, i love where you're coming from. as a christian i've had to wrestle with the same question as well. in my view though jesus wasn't expousing any kind of political idealogy. he knew full well that the coin he instructed to 'give unto caesar' would probably be used for warfare or caesar's personal gain. i've come to believe that jesus's teachings about giving, etc were meant to be taken on a purely personal level. as for the political element, jesus came from a time when poor didn't just mean poor. poor before capitalism and social mobility was something closer to a caste, someone whose lot was unlikely or unable to be changed.

for those reasons i view personal charity and an economic system that allows the poor to be socially mobile as most compatiable with my form of christianity. i recognize that our views are not the same but applaud your honest conversion to what you feel is right. i wish you success, friend. just not too much success at the ballot box.
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reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:25 PM by ImAnAlienOnMyOwnPlanet
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Thank you! Seems we got off to a weird start here. But hey it's politics! It's like sports. You say one team sucks and the others will speak back at you. I do welcome constructive criticism. Just I would like people to ask questions then try to make me feel that these people want to rule you and then kill you. Come on now! Yes a few were. Pol Pot killed people. But hey many different types of people under different governments killed people. Then why have a government? I say the people should rule and work together. That is where Socialism and Communism comes in for me.


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:26 PM by ImAnAlienOnMyOwnPlanet
reply to post by Skyfloating



Check out the article I linked and tell me what you think!
Socialism 101
Good short introduction.


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:27 PM by ImAnAlienOnMyOwnPlanet
reply to post by Skyfloating



I got the red jersey and you got the blue jersey. This time we show good sportsmanship.
You're a really reasonable person.


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:28 PM by Misoir
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Coming from a heavily Anti-Socialist point of view it could easily be viewed that way or should I say skewed that way. I have read Das Kapital more than once and what I got back from his discussion about the Bourgeois was his opposition to their oppression, he labeled them the capitalist class. He never said they were all evil nor did he call for their death, what he stated was that their power should be stripped from them and handed to the workers. Artists, Educators and others who do not own the Means of Production are not considered as 'evil' or 'oppressive' in any way.


reply posted on 8-10-2010 @ 02:29 PM by Misoir
reply to post by Skyfloating



No, the leaders of the Social Democratic Parties who rose to power after World War 2.
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