Gary Severson Wrote:You say let's leave it at that and then go on another rap about the issue exhibiting more of your lack of knowledge about socialism. I'm glad though you see the relationship between Xianity and socialism.
To call a parallel or some similarities (certainly non-existent in its practice by most Xtians, as you call them) a "relationship" is a gross mis-conflation.
Oh, wait, yes... The Gospel According to Marx was written two years after the Pentecost and sent by overland passage to a cave in a hillside overlooking the Moselle River where the reincarnation of Joseph of Arimathea discovered it and presented it to the son of a wealthy vintner who had a conversion epiphany...
No, wait. That's not it.
Jenny von Westphalen was really the reincarnated Mary Magdalene and used to whisper to Marx that that thing Jesus did with the five loaves and the two fish, as soon as he could figure out how to replicate it, could be "the lever of force" that would be needed to overcome any strong centralized state-focused traditions...
that while Jesus used to wander in the wilderness to hide from the authorities (he did, didn't he?), Marx could simply rent apartments using false names, and
that while Jesus was going to eventually get killed because he hid from the state, Marx would live twice as long and die from pleurisy and bronchitis.
No, wait... It's not that, either.
Mary Burns was the reincarnated wife of Joseph and swaddled Marx' vision that he himself saw the crowds and went up to a high spot and sat down and Engels, Georg Friedrich Herwegh, Heinrich Heine, August Herman Ewerbeck, Karl Wallau, Simon Buttermilch, Wilhelm Wolff, and Joachim Lewelel came and sat down with him, and Marx said:
"You get to God through social justice.
Direct knowledge of the Godhead comes through analysis and change of economics and politics. You must preach revolt against the state, the church, the family, legality, religion and property.
Your political emancipation requires a secular state, so you must give up your identity as my disciples.
Now go and wash your own feet."
Men who think they are better than God or who try to control environments or who try to manipulate or oppress…don't they know that their efforts are futile? Without faith hope and love you simply replace one oppression with another.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"