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Does the Religious Left Know What Lenin Said About Christians and Socialism?
The Stream ^ | September 19, 2019 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 09/19/2019 7:46:54 AM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 09/19/2019 7:46:54 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

The Religious Left isn’t Religious. It’s just Left.


2 posted on 09/19/2019 7:50:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Heartlander

Yes, they know. Why do you think they’re silent?


3 posted on 09/19/2019 7:53:48 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Heartlander

They don’t care what some dead white guy said...............


4 posted on 09/19/2019 7:53:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Heartlander

Couldn’t you just as easily say the Jesus denied health care to everyone outside of Israel?


5 posted on 09/19/2019 8:01:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Wolves in sheep’s clothing...”. We were warned.


6 posted on 09/19/2019 8:02:16 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


7 posted on 09/19/2019 8:02:45 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Heartlander

Well Leninism (i.e. Russian Marxism) is not the only flavor of socialism. (Note: Maoism included in Leninism!) There’s Fabian Socialism, Utopian Socialism (e.g. Robert Owen) and others, all fail to deliver on their promises. The main difference is the others didn’t have the power of the state to keep you in place and “force it to work”. With Leninism/Maoism its going to work no matter how many dead bodies it takes to have “utopia”. The other forms of socialism if you didn’t like it you could just get up and leave with minor inconvenience to yourself.

All forms require appeals to “magic” somehow if you just did it long enough a new “socialist man/woman” would emerge.


8 posted on 09/19/2019 8:05:04 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Heartlander

The God of every Socialist is man; they believe reality is whatever man wants it to be. And, it fails every time - EVERY time.

A scientist, seeing a theory failing every empirical test, would at least suspect that the theory is false. Yet Socialists NEVER reexamine their core belief, that reality is whatever man wants it to be.


9 posted on 09/19/2019 8:05:29 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Heartlander

The only religious leftists I know worship the ground their god the Fraud walks on, and believe that neither he nor ABCCBSCNNMSNBC/AP has ever lied to them.


10 posted on 09/19/2019 8:05:39 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Reily

Stalin pretty much did a 180 from Leninism. In fact, he was closer to “National Socialism” than Lenin’s Internationalism.


11 posted on 09/19/2019 8:06:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: circlecity

And Jesus provided the health care personally. He did not set up a state bureaucracy to provide the health care.


12 posted on 09/19/2019 8:06:56 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: circlecity

Nope. “Yet even the dogs eat the scraps...”; and the Centurion’s son.


13 posted on 09/19/2019 8:07:56 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Heartlander
“then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay.”

What a moron.

14 posted on 09/19/2019 8:09:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: Heartlander

These leftist clergymen are all useful idiots.


15 posted on 09/19/2019 8:15:44 AM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Heartlander

The religion of the “religious left” is socialism. It comes first and any connection of God or Jesus is secondary, and used only to falsely justify a worldly system that is otherwise contrary to the Bible.


16 posted on 09/19/2019 8:16:41 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: dfwgator

Agree! But only in focus.

National Socialism, International Socialism only difference is you get to kill more people in international socialism to force utopia!

Its all the same in practice!


17 posted on 09/19/2019 8:18:26 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Darteaus94025
And Jesus provided the health care personally. He did not set up a state bureaucracy to provide the health care.

Nor did He advocate throwing into prison those who declined to participate.

Regards,

18 posted on 09/19/2019 8:23:48 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Heartlander

If you don’t Jesus was crucified and died spent three days in the tomb and resurrected your sins then your liable believe in vain things.


19 posted on 09/19/2019 8:24:43 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: grey_whiskers

Both of who were in Israel when they were healed. Jesus never healed anyone outside Israel that we know of.


20 posted on 09/19/2019 8:27:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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