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Greed...The Worst of the Deadly Sins??
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<blockquote data-quote="zephcom" data-source="post: 74382783" data-attributes="member: 400000"><p>One can only marvel that on one hand someone can list themselves as a person who worships Jesus and on the other hand says that His teachings don't work.</p><p></p><p>When one ONLY studies Jesus' teachings as found in the New Testament, one will find that the concepts of socialism provide a far better fit with Jesus' teachings than do the concepts of capitalism. </p><p></p><p>That is not to say that socialism can't be corrupted just as capitalism has been corrupted. But when one looks at Jesus' teachings and see Him teaching the care and feeding of all humanity without regard for one's own safety, security or even life rather than caring first for oneself and only using the excess for others one has to conclude socialism is a better fit for His teachings than capitalism.</p><p></p><p>Far too often people look at current examples of both and conclude that Jesus was wrong because of biases they have grown up with. Jesus included one thing in His teachings that doesn't exist in either contemporary forms of socialism or capitalism...the absolute reliance on God to provide for them. </p><p></p><p>A socialism which also includes the absolute reliance on God to provide may well work beautifully. We don't know because humans have never tried it. Capitalism, by its very nature, demands each individual rely on themselves to provide. There is no room for God in Capitalism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zephcom, post: 74382783, member: 400000"] One can only marvel that on one hand someone can list themselves as a person who worships Jesus and on the other hand says that His teachings don't work. When one ONLY studies Jesus' teachings as found in the New Testament, one will find that the concepts of socialism provide a far better fit with Jesus' teachings than do the concepts of capitalism. That is not to say that socialism can't be corrupted just as capitalism has been corrupted. But when one looks at Jesus' teachings and see Him teaching the care and feeding of all humanity without regard for one's own safety, security or even life rather than caring first for oneself and only using the excess for others one has to conclude socialism is a better fit for His teachings than capitalism. Far too often people look at current examples of both and conclude that Jesus was wrong because of biases they have grown up with. Jesus included one thing in His teachings that doesn't exist in either contemporary forms of socialism or capitalism...the absolute reliance on God to provide for them. A socialism which also includes the absolute reliance on God to provide may well work beautifully. We don't know because humans have never tried it. Capitalism, by its very nature, demands each individual rely on themselves to provide. There is no room for God in Capitalism. [/QUOTE]
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