[Zack Nguyen]

Zack, you are making a religious point while trying to rebut historical political facts.

Then you ought to be more blatant in qualifying your statement, because you said, "Well if you look at Christianity from a political perspective it is predominantly socialist. It certainly does not have a capitalist bent to it."

Then you spoke about history. So I felt called to correct your first stament, which is inaccurate.

Prohibition was indeed a largely Christian movement. It was a mistake, and an easily corrected mistake had anyone bothered to consult the New Testament, which doesn't forbid drinking at all - just drunkenness.

But socialism, as a movement - I'm not educated about its origins.

You'll find amongst reformed believers, which were the sort that founded our country, a definite trend away from socialism, and toward freedom, which I believe to be consistent with the Biblical message.

[tpaine]

Zack, you are making a religious point while trying to rebut historical political facts. Both socialistic & prohibitionistic schemes were introduced into American politics by Christian movements in the late 1800's.
-- Its been downhill for our liberty ever since.

Then you ought to be more blatant in qualifying your statement, because you said, "Well if you look at Christianity from a political perspective it is predominantly socialist. It certainly does not have a capitalist bent to it."

I think that's a fair assessment of general Christian politics of the late 1800's.

Then you spoke about history. So I felt called to correct your first stament, which is inaccurate.

Maybe, but only from a biblical standpoint, and I'm not educated in that field.

Prohibition was indeed a largely Christian movement. It was a mistake, and an easily corrected mistake had anyone bothered to consult the New Testament, which doesn't forbid drinking at all - just drunkenness. But socialism, as a movement - I'm not educated about its origins.
You'll find amongst reformed believers, which were the sort that founded our country, a definite trend away from socialism, and toward freedom, which I believe to be consistent with the Biblical message.

I simply don't know anything about what you call "reformed believers". All I see are the opinions of believers who post at FR, and very few of them have much in common with the politics of the Founders, imo.