Christian theology properly understood does nothing of the kind. It directss individuals to show charity to other individuals voluntarily, and for their own good. For someone to promote compulsory theft of someone else's wealth in order to benefit someone else is a complete and radical perversion of Christianity. Nowhere in the New Testament do Jesus or his disciples advocate taxation or any other forcible transfer of wealth.
Exactly right! The duty of Christians is to give of themselves, not to take from others.
well said!
Your interpretation of the bible may be correct, but priests and ministers of different branches of Christianity promote forced charity via big government. Popes John and Benedict have implicitedly condemned capitalism as have bishops of other branches of Christianity. A number of years ago I wrote a letters to members of the US hierarchy of the Catholic church after they issued statements critical of US economic policies stating they should keep their noses out of economic matters unless they willing to subject their theologic matters to politics.
thank you...tho’ Jesus taking a fish in the market and distributing thousands of fish to the multitudes of starving may be viewed by socialists as their ‘ticket to ride’! Again I’m a firm believer in individual choice and 100% anti-transfer of wealth by government mandate. Life is full of choices and the earlier one learns to ‘choose wisely’ the better one’s own lifestyle becomes. A generous government helps educate its citizenry in ‘scientific method’, ‘economic evaluation’, and other ‘tools of selection’ or else natural selection will rule! (ie, the biggest crooks get the best deals).