Just a quick outline of my Christian Socialist views

[Chesterton]

In America, when one person proposes national health, someone from the right says: you want socialism! Thats how the discussion works here. We're dumb.

Aside from being racist, that's just wrong. Americans are not dumb. They invented sliced bread and the Frisbee. What did socialists ever invent? Yeah, re-education camps and gulags.

 

[durangodawood]

Aside from being racist, that's just wrong. Americans are not dumb. They invented sliced bread and the Frisbee. What did socialists ever invent? Yeah, re-education camps and gulags.

USA:
1920's- Sliced bread
1950's- Frisbee
2010's- National health care = Soviet prison state

 

[Chesterton]

2010's- National health care = Soviet prison state

I'm not sure what "national health care" means.

 

[durangodawood]

I'm not sure what "national health care" means.

It means ты идешь в ГУЛАГ и без водки

 

[Chesterton]

It means ты идешь в ГУЛАГ и без водки

именно так.

 

[BryanJohnMaloney]

Socialism is always at gunpoint. How is that Christian?

 

[A Gerbil]

Socialism is always at gunpoint. How is that Christian?

Not to mention Socialism's disdain for religion - 'opium of the people' - and that Christians were actively persecuted in the USSR:

Tortured For Christ
Bible Smuggling During the Cold War

 

[ArmenianJohn]

As as such the prolitariat must remain armed (Luke 22:36) in defense of the revolution.

Luke 22:36 does not support the arming of common men; in fact, in context, it is clear that Christ and His Disciples were decidedly anti-weapon, as they could scarcely come up with 2 knives/swords among the 12 of them. On top of that, in the same story, Christ admonishes Peter for daring to actually use the weapon and issues the stern warning that "those who live by the sword shall die by the sword".