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What, exactly, is a picture of the Kremlin supposed to say here? I show a picture of a gigantic mansion owned by one of the wealthiest families in the world, and you show a picture of the Kremlin?
Okay, here's the Whitehouse:
There was no point in posting a picture of it, but neither was there any point in you posting a picture of the Kremlin.
If you want to point out the evils of the USSR, you'll get no argument from me. The Stalinist regime was evil. But the evils of Stalinism don't justify the evils of Capitalism.
Just so we're clear, I'm not a Communist, nor a Marxist. I don't have enough faith in human beings behaving themselves well enough for a true implementation of Marxist ideas to work. Marx desired the dissolution of the State, envisioning a Communist utopia where the workers owned the means of production and all things were shared equally. I think much of that is a noble ideal, but also unrealistic.
The evidence for how unrealistic it is can be seen wherever anyone has tried to implement some form of Marxist society, such as with the Bolsheviks.
You can't quench ambition, you can't quench human selfishness, and the thirst for power. There will always be at least some people who want more, to be on top, to have power. And those people will find power if given the opportunity. Where a power vacuum opens, there will be those who will come to fill it.
But to pretend as though Capitalism is any better morally is simply sticking one's head in the sand. The fruits of Capitalism are all around us, as the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the least of these suffer under the heavy heel of the wealthy and the powerful.
The Christian should desire what is best for their neighbor, and thus seek what is good and just for our societies and communities. And therefore we should promote justice, love mercy, and walk humbly before our God (Micah 6:8); and that means being on the side of the poor, the hungry, and the oppressed wherever they are.
On that basis, we have seen time and again the failures of Capitalism, the failed attempts at Communism, and the utter inhuman nightmare of Fascism. All within the last century and a half.
So maybe rather than cheerleading such failed economic models as though any of them have been great is a problem. Especially Fascism, that was just in every way the worst of all worlds. So let's set our pom poms down, use our hearts and minds and conscience to prioritize that which we should prioritize in accordance with God's will: That we love our neighbor and seek what is maximally good for him.
-CryptoLutheran
Kind of amazing how so much hatred against the system of free enterprise you expound while promoting your Faith as a Lutheran.
When I joined the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States of America, which is also the oath all U.S. public servants must take, including the police.
That U.S. Constitution supports Christian values from God's Word.
So if you want to mock hypocrites working under the guise of following that Constitution, fine, but don't mock the country, nor that Constitution, nor We The People whom it represents. A Communist won't limit themselves with mockery of the hypocrites, they will also mock that U.S. Constitution (because they want to destroy it), and also the people who 'still' support it (like me, like many good U.S. government leaders, and like many good still existing U.S. military leaders).
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