Sunday, April 18, 2010

Drawing the Wrong Message from the Bible

I understand how some could claim that Christ was a socialist, given that the early Church was communal (Acts 4:32-35 RSV).

I know that Christ was not a socialist, though, because socialism in its fullest flower, i.e., National Socialism (Nazism) and Communism, is irreligious, even militantly anti-religious.

There was no religious freedom in Communist Russia; the Nazis persecuted Catholics—as did the French, by the way, after their own revolution. (It should go without saying that the Nazis also tried to completely eradicate the Jews.)

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