Unless "The Believers Share Their Possessions" was placed in the Bible just to fill up space, it was intended to instruct future generations to practice a form of "Christian socialism" that the religious conservatives have found difficult to accept!Was the Roman state forcing Christians into doing this or was it voluntary? I'm curious how one gets from the voluntary nature implied by Acts 2 to state coercion, which the disciples seem to have pretty much unanimously opposed.
So, should society be organized into small, decentralized tribes of communal living?
One of the major reasons that motivated conservative Christians to place their political support behind President Trump and the Republicans was their ability to influence the appointment of those judges whose interpretation of the Constitution and the law would promote their agenda!
Conservative Christians freely admit that their "end-game," when it comes to placing "like-minded" judges in positions of authority, wasn't one of "voluntary" compliance, but "coercion" - based on the enforcement of favorable legal decisions through the Courts!
As previously stated, conservative Christians appear only too willing to tie themselves in knots when it comes to minimizing the importance and application of "The Believers Share Their Possessions" - they have no intention of allowing the American public the option of "voluntary" compliance with respect to abortion, should SCOTUS overturn Roe v Wade!
When it comes to promoting their ideologically-driven interpretation of the Bible, conservative Christians have never been adverse to resorting to "political hardball" - the "voluntary versus coercion" argument is reserved for those Biblical selections, like "The Believers Share Their Possessions," that they would prefer to ignore!
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