Cheerful Charlie
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God is a communist. See Acts 4 and Acts 2.
Eventually if one is serious they will be forced to choose God or communism. You cannot have both. Communism at its benign says God is unnecessary but actually does not exist. Christianity says that God exists and is absolutely necessary. Chalk and cheese
I'm just adding this to let those who don't realize that there are Christians who also embrace communism.
I have sympathy for the view that Marx started an heretic off-shoot from Christianity but it went off the rails.If one is honest, it does appear as if Jesus was a socialist or communist, if you take the words of the Gospel seriously.
So socialism is a Johnny-come-lately then? So why not stick with the original (and the best)?It doesn't matter that those words didn't exist during his time. The ideology of the gospel is very similar to that of socialism or communism. I"m not trying to derail this thread. I just wanted to correct something said that isn't true.
Why use such terminology? Just call them followers of ChristGod is a communist. See Acts 4 and Acts 2.
Matthew 7 (By their fruit you will know them).And all the Nazis were baptized christians.
Why use such terminology? Just call them followers of ChristGod is a communist. See Acts 4 and Acts 2.
Amen, brother.It is their actions that speak
But it's nevertheless quite possible to have neither.Eventually if one is serious they will be forced to choose God or communism. You cannot have both.
Animism?...why not stick with the original (and the best)?
But it's nevertheless quite possible to have neither.Eventually if one is serious they will be forced to choose God or communism. You cannot have both.
Both are simply wrong. For very similar reasons too - they demand that people believe things that ain't true, and that they impose those false beliefs on others, for the protection of the community.
Last time I looked prisons are filled with criminals.Plenty of christians and muslims have died at the hands of christians and muslims. And our prisons are not filled with atheists.Plenty of atheists have also died at the hands of Christians and Muslims.
Why use such terminology? Just call them followers of ChristGod is a communist. See Acts 4 and Acts 2.
"Something more" for lots of folks is a "higher power." Maybe to them that simply means a deeper understanding of the world around them. However, as you say that does not match observation. The Dover trial demonstrated that people were just pushing their fundamentalist agenda as science. Face it, some folks don't get science and are not curious that way. They want to control what people can learn because they themselves are afraid of knowledge because it threatens their security and power.I disagree. the belief in something more (whatever that is to one) is more reliable than the reverse. Then we apply reason to see what "something more" seem to match what we see better.
Very few Christian follows Christ. Protestants have a tendency for worshipping Paul and Catholics worshipping dogma.Why use such terminology? Just call them followers of ChristGod is a communist. See Acts 4 and Acts 2.
I'm not sure what your point is. All I was saying is that the original Christian message is similar to communism and that not all communists are atheists. To me, these ideologies are well meaning but extremely idealistic. Every time they've been tried, they become corrupted. People didn't evolve to want to share everything equally with everyone else.Eventually if one is serious they will be forced to choose God or communism. You cannot have both. Communism at its benign says God is unnecessary but actually does not exist. Christianity says that God exists and is absolutely necessary. Chalk and cheese
I'm just adding this to let those who don't realize that there are Christians who also embrace communism.
I have sympathy for the view that Marx started an heretic off-shoot from Christianity but it went off the rails.If one is honest, it does appear as if Jesus was a socialist or communist, if you take the words of the Gospel seriously.
So socialism is a Johnny-come-lately then? So why not stick with the original (and the best)?It doesn't matter that those words didn't exist during his time. The ideology of the gospel is very similar to that of socialism or communism. I"m not trying to derail this thread. I just wanted to correct something said that isn't true.
Are there any? I've never met one. Some people do lots of charitable work, spend hours volunteering and then you find out that their favorite movie is Death Wish with Charles Bronson, or that they hate Muslims, or blacks or Jews or pray for the conversion of Russia. That doesn't seem to square. I'll have to reread those four gospel stories, maybe I missed something in there about acceptance.I just don't see many Christians who follow the teachings of the Christian gospel.