[what's up]

What has been called in the United States "social benefits," "social security," "welfare," etc., can also be called socialism, which sprang from the same Judaic-Christian notion of charity.

Doubt it. Christian charity is CHARITY. Government "charity" (socialism) is not charity...it is enforced giving.

True christianity is allowing people to give out of a true sense of compassion, not compulsion.

By the way...the more I read of Plato, the fruitier I think him.

[cornelis]

Perhaps you misunderstand or don't yet understand him.

Plato begins his last work, the Laws, with a most profound question. The Athenian walks with two friends from Knossos and the question is raised, where do the laws come from, a god or a man. If you think that is fruity business, I'll just have to pray for you.

[expatpat]

It seemed like an apologia for socialism to me.

[Federalist 78]

True christianity is allowing people to give out of a true sense of compassion, not compulsion.

Very well put.

By the way...the more I read of Plato, the fruitier I think him.

Authors Most Frequently Cited By The Founders Of The United States Founders didn't think much of him either.

1 St. Paul (Biblical) 9.00%

12 Cicero (Classical) 1.20%

26 Plato (Classical) 0.50%

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