Posted on 11/14/2015 3:37:17 PM PST by John Leland 1789
To quote the great scholar Insoector Clouseau: “What sort of stupid question is that?”
A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. …That is the first paragraph of the Manifesto’s preamble. Think they were targeting Christianity from the outset, maybe?
Communism is evil. Case closed.
Communism sounds good to some, but their godlessness is anathema to MOST humans. All cultures, primitive, ancient, modern, whatever, always worshiped what/whom they thought was their superior, creator or whatever. It seems to be a part of our humanity.
Communism surely is evil, but nowadays, I am trying to figure out if Islam is just as evil.
What an asinine question.
Christians are supposed to fight against ALL evil and communism is the epitome of evil.
Yes. I spent 20 years of my adult life doing just that.
Christians should remember the concept of free will.
Even if you actually believe that communism is some form of charity, keep in mind that it is forced on the participants. Then cannot choose to stay out of it if that’s how their government operates.
Would Christians force people into their religion?
Evil is evil regardless of the clothes it wears at the end of the day. Islam may have killed more but thats because they have a 1000 year head start.
Yes, Islam as practiced by the Iranians, ISIS, Al Quaeda, the Moslem Brotherhood, and other similar groups who want to turn back the clock to the 700s have made it evil. Additionally, there is no similarity, in my view and study, between Mohammed’s allah and the God of Christians and Jews.
Always be suspicious of a religion that lets you marry a child, but doesn’t let you eat a ham sandwich.
Yes. Communism is a distortion of Christianity. It is Egalitarianism carried to the extreme.
The best way to help the poor is a rational pro-business environment and an economic system that promotes prosperity.A rational pro-business environment and an economic system that promotes prosperity both recognize the benefits of profits, money,capital accumulation,technological progress, and individual rights, including property rights, and liberty.Communism is just the opposite.
Islam has killed more people than Communism.
Excellent question. The answer in the earliest form of communism.
God asked Cain “Where is your brother?
Cain did not want to answer that question. So he tried to distract God to a different paradigm:
Am I my brother’s keeper?
The Judeo-Christian answer is: No. I am not my brother’s keeper. I am my brother’s brother.
There is a big difference.
Prisons, zoos, plantations have keepers. The main job of the keeper is to prevent peole from escaping...escaping from the plantation. The keeper (or the people the keeper works for) are smarter (or stronger) than those kept. They know what is best for the people they keep and are angry when their guidance is ignored.
The brothers brother teaches his brother to fish; but does not give his brother the fish; nor force him to fish.
The brothers brother is not responsible for his brothers choices or behavior. Each person is responsible for his own choices, including his religious choices.
Increasingly, those who use the label Christian claim that the rest of us should adopt the theology of Cain and reject the Judeo-Christian theology of God.
Communism is the theology of Cain. The beauty of the theology of Cain is that different self-appointed busy-bodies can have different agendas for their brother.
Slaves on Plantations of the past were quite different from serfs in communist Ukraine. And yet, they were essentially the same.
Concerning Cain and Communism. Very good. Thanks!
You simply read the rhetorical title and by your answer I know you did not read the article, as the author spoke your answer.
Islam is utterly evil, but since there is nothing new under the sun, what was communism called, before it was known as communism? Didn't the Pharoahs of Egypt, and others, essentially practice communism? The bottom line is, both systems are evil.
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