No, Jesus Was Not a Socialist Washington Examiner | December 24, 2019 | Lawrence W. Reed
The claim that Jesus Christ was a socialist has become a popular refrain among liberals, even from some whose Christianity is lukewarm at best. But is there any truth in it?
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One can scour the New Testament and find nary a word from Jesus that calls for empowering politicians or bureaucrats to allocate resources, pick winners and losers, tell entrepreneurs how to run their businesses, impose minimum wages or maximum prices, compel workers to join unions, or even to raise taxes.
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in Jesus’s Parable of the Good Samaritan, the traveler is regarded as “good” because he personally helped the stricken man at the roadside with his own time and resources. If, instead, he had urged the helpless chap to wait for a government check to arrive, we would likely know him today as the Good-for-Nothing Samaritan.
Never. It requires an odd set of circumstances: submitting an idea, getting it posted, and then having it be popular enough. This combination may have happened before; but not since the Harvey Award was instituted.
I LOLed.
I soroters like Trump too.
pass the cofeve.
I would characterize it as Jesus wanting you to be a voluntary socialist, providing for others from yourself by your own positive choice to do so.
Didn’t He say, “give unto Caesar that which is God’s”?
Or was that someone else?
Miust have been someone else. He said, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.”
Harvey Award to Slapout!
Has anyone ever got one in this fashion?
Never. It requires an odd set of circumstances: submitting an idea, getting it posted, and then having it be popular enough. This combination may have happened before; but not since the Harvey Award was instituted.
So we can safely blame the Russians, right?
Auggh! The Russian interference is coming from inside the building!
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