Cheers, ken
________________________________ From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> To: LBO <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <marxism at greenhouse.economics.utah.edu>; Progressive Economics <pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:00 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] WaPo: From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity
"The pro-capitalist Christians who are aware of these passages wave them away even though it is the only explicit description of Christian economics in the Bible.
"To get just how central collectivism is to Christian canon, consider that the Bible contains the first description of socialism in history. Anti-socialist Christians also claim that the Biblical version was voluntary. Aside from it being obvious that the biblical version of God was not the anti-socialist Christian capitalists commonly proclaim he was, some dark passages in Acts indicate how deeply pro-socialist the New Testament deity is. Chapter 5 details how when a church member fails to turn over all his property to the church 'he fell down and died,' when his wife later did the same 'she fell down… and died… Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.'lbo
"Dear readers, does this not sound like a form of terror-enforced-communism imposed by a God who thinks that Christians who fail to join the collective are worthy of death? Not only is socialism a Christian invention, so is its extreme communistic variant."
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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