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I'm not against taxation for justifiable causes like defence of the country or road building etc. But there is no biblical or spiritual justification to steal people's money for handouts to others. Despite calling it taxation, its just theft by another name.So you're against taxation. Got it.
Then why allow the bulk of the wealth to flow to the top of the pyramid? Why not let the base be as prosperous as it once was even only a little over a half century ago. Not because of handouts, but because of thriving small business and industry, local not global.But there is no biblical or spiritual justification to steal people's money for handouts to others.
If everyone looked out for their neighbour that would blanket the world. It don't get much bigger than that.
More Marxist propaganda.Capitalism plays on greed saying envy and work enough and you too can be a good little consumer and have all the toys while we amass the wealth. But capitalists need to draw attention away from that fact, so they take a word and redefine it to create an enemy because they can't use communism any more.
Such is the self serving world of man that since the Garden redefines what is good and bad to suit their own deeds. Talk about ungodly covetousness and greed in defending the ways contrary to God.
Yes the original teachings of Jesus were so simple before we made an institution out of it like all the others. Where how can I make this to my advantage overtook servitude.This is the simplicity of it.
Yes you don't see many communal barn raisings these days except maybe for Jimmy Carter's house building programs.You wouldn't stand being able to see your brother begging for food and shelter while you have both food and shelter in excess.
I am completely against what the big corporations and businesses get up to, particularly international ones.Then why allow the bulk of the wealth to flow to the top of the pyramid? Why not let the base be as prosperous as it once was even only a little over a half century ago. Not because of handouts, but because of thriving small business and industry, local not global.
Silly straw man argument. I never said that.Moses was about gain at the expense of others rather than redistribution?
Actually that freedom is the Kingdom and away from the institutions and traditions of man. Nations like to claim God is on their side but the only side He is on is the Kingdom which runs opposite to the ways of man. You have simply chosen the governance of man over the governance of God.
God says don't use me to justify your deeds, instead change to suit my will.
Well then welcome to today's world.But they don't particularly represent capitalism, but Fascism.
Not to mention the most powerful nation to the west. Remember when local corporate money controlled governments, not global.That was how Hitler's Third Reich operated, and how the European Union operates.
You do have other options rather than the ones you are told to choose from. How advantageous is it to choose one over another just because they offer you one or two moral points they conveniently never fulfil to keep you coming back.. but follow for the most part an immoral system.Not voting is not an option, it is a cherished freedom, to have a say in elections which can have very real consequences.
Christians should be political activists, to make a difference for Christ in the world
If everyone looked out for their neighbour that would blanket the world. It don't get much bigger than that.
This is the simplicity of it.
If the entire world loved each other (not the empty abstraction and feeling, but the action) then no one would want for anything. You wouldn't stand being able to see your brother begging for food and shelter while you have both food and shelter in excess. It would make no sense.
But voting for hypocrisy is ok where the party that claims to stand for the unborn worked hard to make abortion legal in the first place? Perhaps there are other options than the two parties that stand out but need not be followed.Both parties are a mess. I can't vote for any party that supports baby murder, though (which is what abortion is).
But the worst answer to the above would be socialism.Well then welcome to today's world.
Not to mention the most powerful nation to the west. Remember when local corporate money controlled governments, not global.
This ignores the issues of problems that are not only large in scale, but also geographically correlated (i.e. when they impact large numbers of people in a single place) and/or require some level of expertise to address. For example, "the community" isn't much help when everybody's house has been flooded. Nor is "the community" going to be effective at fighting malaria or water-born illnesses.
Yet another straw man argument.The Egyptians and Canaanites might argue.
You do have other options rather than the ones you are told to choose from. How advantageous is it to choose one over another just because they offer you one or two moral points they conveniently never fulfil to keep you coming back.. but follow for the most part an immoral system.
Where is the freedom in that? Choosing from choices you have no say in the making of. At the least you can choose none of the above or is that option not available to you. If not... why?
And that can be done by civil disobedience as in Jesus' time. None of them relied on the political system to back them. They were an outside force who rebelled by not rebelling against the government as the zealots did, but by setting up an entirely new way of life contrary to the existing system. Nothing stopping American Christians or any others from doing exactly the same. You'll never change the ways of man but you can change yourselves.
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