Talk:Democratic socialism
If you think the issue of men in woman's sports is about the gender agenda of the left you are being played and are ignorant of the history and destruction of liberty throughout the past. They want you think that more laws is a solution as if more laws and more government is your salvation. Yet, we should know from history: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." Tacitus ,Book III, 27. Desiring a collective law to protect an individual's right is a doorway to a strong delussion. Chains make poor armor. "And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt." Tacitus More laws are more tools for the tyranny of the courts where black robed men decide what is 'good and evil' for the masses. "When men [women] of talents are punished, authority is strengthened." Tacitus, Book IV, 35. Publius Tacitus saw that "A bad peace is even worse than war." We are engaged in a war of truth and lies, of light and darkness, and of good and evil. There is no safety in making more laws in the halls of government. "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." There is only hope in repentance from the common thinking that has crept in unawares and returning to embrace the mind of Christ. If you want to be on the winning side of this battle you need to know where the battle line is formed. The Roman historian Tacitus also wrote of the Crucifixion of 'Christus' and his execution by Pontius Pilate in his Annals (written ca. AD 116, book 15, chapter 44.) His discription of Christian practices, while telling, does not match the modern Christian Church. “The communities are wont, of their own accord and man by man, to bestow upon their princes a certain number of beasts, or a certain portion of grain; a contribution which passes indeed for a mark of reverence and honour, but serves also to supply their necessities.” (The Works of Tacitus. With Political Discourses Upon that Author, by Thomas Gordon, Esq; in Five Volumes. Vol. 1. \-5.1) The words 'of their own accord' in the text is from the Latin 'ultro' meaning 'voluntarily'. Christian provided all social welfare for Christian communities through volantarism and charity alone. This was the conflict with Rome.
Christ and the apostles were adamant that His followers should not engage in the 'covetous practices' of the 'world' at that time by looking to the governments of the world who "exercise authority one over the other" to provide benefits, at the expense of their neighbor through those covetous practices condemned by Christ. Socialism is all about providing benefiting at the expense of others through the force of government. You cannot be a socialist, vote for socialist programs, desire benefits at the expense of others and honestly claim to be following Christ. Early Christians would not engage in those systems where force was used to provide social welfare.