this stuff from Acts sounds like some sort of utopian cult and quite undemocratic. It fits with the fact that most people worked and lived in collective organizations before capitalism arose; Jesus was offering a better version, though didn't seem to be a democrat.
> "To get just how central collectivism is to Christian canon, consider > that the Bible contains the first description of socialism in history. > Anti-socialist Christians also claim that the Biblical version was > voluntary. Aside from it being obvious that the biblical version of > God was not the anti-socialist Christian capitalists commonly proclaim > he was, some dark passages in Acts indicate how deeply pro-socialist > the New Testament deity is. Chapter 5 details how when a church member > fails to turn over all his property to the church 'he fell down and > died,' when his wife later did the same 'she fell down… and died… > Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these > events.'lbo > > "Dear readers, does this not sound like a form of > terror-enforced-communism imposed by a God who thinks that Christians > who fail to join the collective are worthy of death? Not only is > socialism a Christian invention, so is its extreme communistic > variant." -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
