Posted on 02/22/2019 7:26:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In the Robin Hood story, the rich were the ruling class who were getting wealthy off of taxes.
The current equivalent of Robin Hood today would be those who fight for reducing the taxes.
Christ turned over the tax tables. Nuf said.
Democrats created the IRS tax tables. That is unbiblical devil’s work.
Both God and Christ (after all, they are one in the same) are disinterested in the structures and affairs of men with men. They are disinterested in the form of legislatures, PTA groups, neighborhood groups, school boards, tax rates, public vs private schools, strong vs weak county executive forms, elected vs appointed school boards, minimum wages, free markets, government price controls, and all other structures and power of men among men.
God and Christ are solely interested in your acceptance and following and obedience, and your salvation.
To be sure, Jesus wants you to love your neighbor, and all but makes it a demand that you love your neighbor. I’ll concede to those who say this is a demand.
Nowhere in the Bible does God or Christ weigh-in on the matter (much less advocate) of the following:
— Neighbor A votes for politician P
— Who creates a state armed enforcement body
— And a state tax collection service
— And produces taxing legislation
— For the seizure of wealth + labor + property
— from Neighbors B, C, and also A (perhaps)
— And for further legislation
— which transfers this wealth, labor, and property
— to Neighbors D, E, F, G, H and returns some to C and A
— which in turn induces
— a standing political party
— which advocates compassion and kindness and Jesus
— and also the theft and confiscation of wealth
— albeit by popular vote
— which bases its power on the seizure of wealth,
property and labor from certain categories of
neighbors in order to transfer it to other
categories of neighbor
Jesus said zero about this.
In any event, Jesus was disinterested in this sort of thing, except that he was aware of and did not like persons who abused their power to steal from the weak and otherwise abuse the weak. The Democratic Party is an example of this exploitative villain. Socialism and its variants is the MO of the Dems.
Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even 'health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law II cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegation of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove. EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON." - Liberty Fund Library "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), Chapter 1
“Don’t steal.”
Deuteronomy 5 and Exodus 20.
Heaven is a dictatorship where there is no private ownership of property.
But trying to recreate heaven on earth will always fail. Because apart from God there is no heaven.
Mathew 20:15
Don’t I have a right to do what I want with my own money.
No it isn’t, and even if it were, it would be wrong.
That verse is actually 2nd Thessalonians.
No. Proverbs is pretty clear about sloths and hard workers.
One that you never apparently read.
Robin Hood was about a guy who thought the government and church were taxing the people beyond their limit to pay.
So he began to give unauthorized tax refunds.
"The Socialist - the extreme and revolutionary party of Socialists - are very fond of telling us they are reviving in modern days the best principles of the Christian era. They consider they are the political embodiment of Christianity, though, to judge by the language which some of them use and the spirit of envy, hatred, and malice with which they go about their work, you would hardly imagine they had studied the teaching of the Founder of Christianity with the attention they profess to have given to the subject. - (Hear, hear.) But there is one great difference between Socialists of the Christian era and those of which Mr Victor Grayson is the apostle. The Socialism of the Christian era was based on the idea that "all mine is yours', but the Socialism of Mr Grayson is based on the idea that 'all yours is mine'. — Winston Churchill, January 22, 1908
The most famous socialist was Judas Iscariot.
When Mary, the sister of Lazarus, anointed Jesus with costly perfume just days before the crucifixion, Judas lectured her and said, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?”
Notice that Judas put on a show of caring for the poor - even though the money was Mary’s, not his!
The motives of Judas, John 12:6 tells us, were corrupt and self-centered - and Jesus responded with a stinging rebuke.
“This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.”
Which gets to the heart of socialism:
Envy disguised as altruism.
Judas was not concerned about the poor, he wanted money.
That sounds familiar. :-)
Exactly. Also, “Don’t covet” from the same chapters.
Socialist schemes seek to deny human nature and its tendency to evil and sin. Those who promote them think wrongly that the government can make us perfect. It is the embodiment of Anti-Christian thought
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