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To: IbJensen

Jesus was in many ways one of the first “liberal Jews” due to his departure from legalistic Judaism (ie the primacy of the law) and was definitely left-of-center within his historical contexts. I wouldn’t exactly consider him an exponent of “scientific socialism” (a product of the industrialization that would occur some 1,800 years later), but the early apostles were definitely proto-Kibbutzniks.


38 posted on 09/01/2009 12:40:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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In socialism, we have an attempt by the government to replace what God’s people are commanded to do. It’s just an attempt by Satan to counterfeit the role of the church. Show me any socialistic country where Christianity is vibrant. I’ve never found any. It squeezes out the Christian faith by taking resources from the individual (which might have gone to charity, etc.) and replaces it with a huge “benevolent” government.


39 posted on 09/01/2009 1:12:07 PM PDT by betsyross60
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