Friday, February 4, 2011

Socialism and Jesus

The context of this response is to one that advocated socialism and claimed that Jesus would and was a socialist. Here is my rebuttal:
First, socialism is more accurately "statism". The state controls things. I don't think Jesus promoted this. It is one thing to give to charity of one's free will. But it is another thing to have your "charity" confiscated by the state. That is not charity in the Christian sense. On a small scale if I was to take your money from you to give a homeless man that would not be charity; it would be theft. This is not to say that it would be good for you to give from your heart. This is very different than what statism does. I for one do not feel it is in keeping with Christ to allow tax dollars to go to the murdering of the unborn. This is one of the way the state confiscates your money.

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