Socialism
It always encourages and provides benefits to part of society at the expense of others which are covetous practices. Real followers of Abraham, Moses, or Christ do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people to provide the dainties of rulers.
But the only way out of poverty is to strengthen the poor. This can only be done through a combination of the individual choices of Capitalism and charity. Socialist the welfare programs of modern State robs the choices of individuals that normally nurtures the soul of society and degenerates it's members weakening the poor financially and the character of the rich. It divides society. Forced redistribution of wealth nurtures tyranny.
Anyone who advocates any form of socialism or legal charity desires to take liberty to choose, the power of choice away from others. For that reason alone they will lose their own right to choose for themselves and usher in tyranny for all.
Socialism is Religion. To seek socialism is to desire the "wages of unrighteousness" which is the opposite of seeking the kingdom of God and His Righteousness preached by John the Baptist, and Jesus the Christ who said we were to live by love and charity.
What made America a great nation was the fact that almost all education, health and welfare was provided by the people through charity and choice and not through governments which exercise authority one over the other. Socialism is the religion of "covetous practices" you get when you have no pure Religion of love and charity.
Socialism the word
The term "socialism" generally "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production[1], distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated[2] by the community as a whole."
Some will say that is a definition by Karl Marx. Certainly Friedrich Engels who co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx in 1948, but had noted by 1847 that there was a distinction between socialism, seen as a middle-class movement, and communism, associated more with the working-class movements that was seeking a more radical change in both the economics of society and its control. Marx did not write Volume I of Das Kapital until 1867. Much earlier than Marx and Engles others used and defined the term socialism.
Defined by use
- British Cooperative Magazine: In Britain as early as 1827 in the British Cooperative Magazine the term "socialism" was used to describe cooperative reformism as an alternative to individualism and capitalism. It was initially associated with the followers of Robert Owen with the term "socialist" first appearing around 1830.
- Robert Owen as early as 1820s into the 1840s is considered the founder of English socialism. He to promoted cooperative communities where resources were shared, as seen in his initiatives at New Lanark (bought by Owen in 1799) and New Harmony (bought 1825). originally was a Welsh utopian socialist and philanthropist who believed that a person's character is shaped by their environment. He did seek to improve working conditions and established cooperative communities. Cooperative business is quite different than a cooperative community. Owen saw "private property" as one of the "awful trinity" of man's oppressors. The other to elements were irrational religion and marriage and therefore the family itself.
- Saint-Simon[3] and his followers, the Saint-Simonians, were using the terms "socialism" or "socialization," from the 1820s unto the 1830s advocating for collective institutions and cooperation, as opposed to the self-interest of individualism but did claim to be willing to reward the individual based on ability and work but with important exceptions. They would ultimately undermine some of the key elements of the institution of Natural Law, the family unit because they proposed the abolition of private property and inheritance rights. Some how they would advocated for a system where wealth was distributed based on individual contribution but did not include the individual's right to distribute what they produced. They also claimed a desire to liberate the woman which would also undermine her place within the natural family unite.
- Pierre Leroux (1797-1871) claimed to have coined the term on or before 1832. He contrasted socialism with individualism, defining it as a political organization where the individual is sacrificed to society. Pierre was a prominent critic of private property and inheritance, viewing them as contrary to what he saw as equality and social justice.
- Pierre Leroux argued with another French "socialist" Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. They did have some critical contentions as to what the nature of socialism which should be understood better before we make absolute decision about its meaning. Words are defined and redefined by their use which both Johnson and Webster needed to examine.
- The reasoning of Leroux made him a proponent of state-oriented "solidarisme". Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a mutualist anarchist who criticized state-based solutions and advocated for the abolition of the state but also private property. In his book What is Property? he even wrote "Property is theft." and "The possessions of the rich are stolen property."
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon first used the term "socialism" in 1840 in his book What is Property? and seem to use it to mean a society governed by reason, not just will. But the question will remain What is right reason?
Numbered conflicts with socialism
Proudhon considered Leroux and others like Louis Blanc[4] to be "men of government and authority," whose belief in the state as a tool for reform was flawed.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, though the first to declare himself an anarchist, using that term, had stated in his original 1840 work that, "I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world."
By 1847 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon would write in his book "The System of Economic Contradictions, or, The Philosophy of Poverty" which would also become known as "The Philosophy of Misery" that “Charity is recommended".
This book was hated by Marx even though Marx had been initially impressed by Proudhon's earlier works.
Marx wrote The Poverty of Philosophy to critique and refute Proudhon. Proudhon critiqued the Communist Manifesto for its revolutionary seizure of central power and its eventual creation of a state-controlled system which he reasoned would bring oppression, rather than liberty. These socialist were in a primal conflict over the nature of socialism but also with the perfect law of liberty.
In the 1846 when Pierre-Joseph Proudhon finally began to see more clearly he wrote in his book "The Philosophy of Misery":
- “Charity is recommended to us as a reparation of the infirmities which afflict our fellows by accident, and, viewing it in this light, I can see that charity may be organized; I can see that, growing out of solidarity itself, it may become simply justice. But charity taken as an instrument of equality and the law of equilibrium would be the dissolution of society. Equality among men is produced by the rigorous and inflexible law of labor, the proportionality of values, the sincerity of exchanges, and the equivalence of functions, — in short, by the mathematical solution of all antagonisms."
- "That is why charity, the prime virtue of the Christian, the legitimate hope of the socialist, the object of all the efforts of the economist, is a social vice the moment it is made a principle of constitution and a law; that is why certain economists have been able to say that legal charity had caused more evil in society than proprietary usurpation.”[5]
1 Solidarity is born out of charity
I must agree with Proudhon who sees, “Charity is recommended" but he also imagines it grows "out of solidarity itself" but in truth Moses and Jesus knew that it is solidarity that grows out of charity and without that practice there will be no true social justice.
He says that charity is the prime virtue of the Christian but in truth hope is just another of the other Social virtues required for a free and moral society. The Social bonds of a free society is composed of the social virtues of that society.
What else does he and other socialist see or fail to see?
2 Individual endowed with Natural right
All those definitions and versions of socialism see individualism as an enemy because they assume they must kill the selfishness that may come with the vanity of individualism. Yet, it was the individual who was endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, not the collective.
Even the natural family is seen as the enemy of the collective. The collective is only endowed with privileges by the consent of the individuals[6], often through agreements witnessed through Contracts, Covenants, and Constitutions which is forbidden in the Bible by both testaments.
All dominion of men was granted to individuals and if there is any divine right of Kings it is first placed in man as an individual. It is the individual that may through consent grant kingship over himself and his children.
3 An individual includes the Natural Family
The individual family is the the whole of individual itself. In this natural, religious, and spiritual union of man and woman they are no more twain but one flesh. It is not right that man be alone nor should a man despise dominion given by God nor sell his right to choose for benefits and dainties.
The natural family is the natural corporation of God where two or more people are counted one person under the preexisting authority of creation itself. All other corporations are the product of the imagination, agreements and consent of men.
To pray to benefactors who exercise authority[2] is to pray to the fathers of the earth which Christ forbid and to do so would. To do so and covetousness is Idolatry.[7]
4 Serve or bow down to other gods
We are told not to go under the authority of other gods by making covenants or giving consent to obtain benefits or dainties of rulers. Understanding who the gods are and how you go under their authority and get snared, trapped, or made merchandise.
In socialism they remove the need for the choice to be charitable and force the redistribution among the whole. It is the one purse by consent and the city that is a caldron warned about in Proverbs.[8]
When you go under that authority you will loose some of your natural right to choose and that authority whether prince, potentate, or president will make choices for you that had once been yours to make.
The more authority or right to choose for the people or rule over the people or take from the people by a government or state has, whether a Monarch or a Mobocracy, then the less rights, liberty, and freedom of choice the individual will have.
"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”[9]
5 Return to property
Every definition of socialism not only advocated practices that undermine the individual and the family unite they also want to take away property rights.
What are property rights?
Who guaranteed those property rights?
This is an important element because Protection draws subjection and subject protection.
But an individual must have property rights in order to choose to give away what he has for the welfare of others. The welfare of rulers can be a snare and a trap and even make the word of God to none effect as with the Corban of the Pharisees.
Had Pierre-Joseph Proudhon understood the true nature of the early Church and the gospel of the Kingdom, he may have turned in his copy of Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei for a Bible for in some ways he did not seem far from the kingdom of God.
6 Modern Socialist critiques
Socialism is a noun defined as a, "political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
Its synonyms are listed as: leftism, welfarism, radicalism, progressivism, social democracy, communism, and Marxism.
It has been said that, "Under Capitalism man exploits man; under Socialism the process is reversed.”
"Socialism works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it, and hell where they already have It." —Ronald Reagan
Socialism as a "political and economic" system requires that the people give power to the state to take away from those who have, to give to those who think they do not have enough. It is rooted in coveting your neighbor's goods and possessions for your personal benefit. The men who exercise force to redistribute the wealth of that "political and economic" system call themselves Benefactors.
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“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
Capitalism allows the right to "accumulation of wealth and capital" which allows for charity among men. Certainly, you can be selfish with your wealth, but that is a choice. Without a choice you are not a man but a thing. Socialism takes away that choice. The premise of Socialism is "From each according to his ability and to each according to his need", which by definition removes that choice from the individual and empowers others with a choice which was originally his, making the individual member of a socialist society nothing more than a human resource or merchandise.
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 1:2
If Capitalism operates in a vacuum it is likely to produce greed among the people. You need to choose other social structures to create incentives within society to not be greedy. In a society that rewards virtue and shuns greed, altruism will grow and society will prosper. Charity was the lifeblood of all free societies. It was charity that funded and sustained ancient Israel and the early Christians, and it is the departure from that because of socialism that is destroying the world.
Is socialism even moral since it is based on coveting not only the means of production but the labor of their neighbors. It also requires that someone rules over the distribution of the products of that labor. Common ownership under socialism causes a need for common rule over one another. In every socialist state that ever existed the lazy or slothful man gets to take a share of the diligent man's labor. As we see in the modern socialist system of the United States the lazy enslave the middle class.
“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion”[10]
Socialism replaces Fervent charity with legal charity. Legal charity reduces the social bonds of virtue and righteousness with apathy, sloth, and avarice. Sloth and avarice feed greed and covetousness reduces liberty, degenerates the masses and ruins the family from which communities are formed until rulers rise over a nation of slaves.
Democracy
Somewhere along the way, some people began to believe that we collectively had the right to decide what was good and evil, not only for ourselves but for our neighbor, as well. We called it democracy.[11]
In early America, the success and prosperity of the people was, no doubt in part, due to the fact that, “The churches in New England were so many nurseries of freemen, training them in the principles of self-government and accustoming them to the feeling of independence. In these petty organizations were developed, in practice, the principles of individual and national freedom. Each church was a republic in embryo. The fiction became a fact, the abstraction a reality...”[12]
Americans have moved from a virtuous self-reliant republic to covetous “democracy in a republic.”[13] This process is done more by contract, application, and participation than by vote.
The people have become a nation of consumers, who willingly bite their neighbor for their own personal security. People have fallen in love with the benefits offered by democracy. But at what price?
James Madison, 1787, stated in the Federalist Paper #10 that “Democracy is the most vile form of government ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” Fisher Ames, an author of the First Amendment, said, “A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.” In 1815 John Adams:
“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Marshall, longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, “Between a balanced Republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” Even Alexander Hamilton said “Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” Benjamin Franklin warned emphatically that, “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” He understood that a, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
Long before these men voiced their objections, Plato postulated, “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy...” And long after Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.” What it really runs to is covetousness because it gives power over others to people so that every man become his neighbor's dictator.
In socialism the collective or majority "rule over" others, often the minority, and their property and personal means of production. Eventually the people become so weak and degenerated more aggressive creatures seize control from a degenerating population like in the Paradise policies of John Calhoun or the collective Masses of Polybius.
Socialism always includes rulers and so therefor cannot be an anarchy. Social anarchism is a non-state form of anarchism that sees individual freedom as being dependent upon mutual aid through charity where they may emphasize community and social equality as complementary to autonomy and personal freedom. There can be no such thing as "anarcho socialism".
Winston Churchill wrote that, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” He went on to say that, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
More recently, historian and Congressman Ron Paul said, “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.” I did find that Karl Marx, who was an advocate of communism, supposedly claimed, 'Democracy is the road to socialism.'[14]
“It is difficult to understand, how anyone who has read the proceedings of the Federal Convention can believe that it was the intention of that body to establish a democratic government.”[15]
Greatest cause of evil
Even the socialist but Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, though the first to declare himself an anarchist and certainly pro Karl Marx, admitted, “Charity is recommended to us as a reparation of the infirmities which afflict our fellows by accident, and, viewing it in this light, I can see that charity may be organized; I can see that, growing out of solidarity itself, it may become simply justice. But charity taken as an instrument of equality and the law of equilibrium would be the dissolution of society. Equality among men is produced by the rigorous and inflexible law of labor, the proportionality of values, the sincerity of exchanges, and the equivalence of functions, — in short, by the mathematical solution of all antagonisms."
"That is why charity, the prime virtue of the Christian, the legitimate hope of the socialist, the object of all the efforts of the economist, is a social vice the moment it is made a principle of constitution and a law; that is why certain economists have been able to say that legal charity had caused more evil in society than proprietary usurpation.”
All legal charity is nothing but the dainties of rulers that is the welfare which Paul and David tells us becomes a snare and degenerates the masses because it is the covetous practices found in the warnings of the prophets
“Accustomed to trampling on the rights of others you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”[16]
“Under a democratic government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.”[17]
Long before Rome fell Polybius warned[18] that its acceptance of socialist precepts was altering the character of the people, dissolving the social bonds of a free people, and their form of government to the detriment of both.
“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:” Exodus 23:2
“A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”[19]
The temples were government buildings which provided service to the people. What made them evil was not the alimenta services but the means by which the functioned. Pure Religion was the way in which society could provide those needs "unsuppotted" by those institutions of the world which exercise authority one over the other. These systems and their wages of unrighteousness created one purse which became a snare that made the people merchandise in a yoke of bondage.
In Proverbs 1 we are warned to not consent because "their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood..." through covetous practices which curse children.
Sacrificed to Idols
Idol or idolatry is from the Greek word eidololatreia.[20] It is from two words. The first is from word meaning image, shape or fashioned and the second part is from a word that means "service rendered for hire".
While the Church in the wilderness and the early Church were supposed to both serve the families of the congregations organized in a network of small groups the practices of the world create an alternative system which serves the welfare of the people in a different fashion and by the means of force.
Understanding the moral issues and dilemma presented by these systems by being to us the truth of our own idolatry[7] because we lack knowledge.
The Greek word eidololatrais translated idolaters would be called “Bandits, hijackers, grafters... today.”[21] The Greek word eidolothuton translated things or meats offered unto idols was produced from two Greek words: eidolon, meaning an image or likeness of something; and the word thuo, something sacrificed.
Eidololatrais seems to have been invented by early Christians and appears to be “the negative counterpart to Corban”[22] which Jesus told the Pharisees made the word of God to none effect.[23]
Corban means sacrifice and was common to all Temples. The purpose of those sacrifices was two-fold: to provide for the needs of the people; and to fulfill the need to care about others. Charity, love, giving, and forgiving are the foundation of the character of God and the cornerstone of His righteous society.
The sacrifices in temples were commonly divided between the priests, members, and the poor. What the priests could not consume was sold at a discount to the needy. Some temples were more like investment houses, and they regularly issued money. They funded trade, or mining ventures, and harbors, aqueducts, or roads, and even war.
Temples could be institutions of charity or social insurance. Pure Religion is not only loving God, but loving one another. The public Temples managed the contributions of the people. When they operated with Freewill offerings, they were a blessing to the liberty of the people.
When public Temples compelled the contributions of the people, they were institutions of bondage. Like Nimrod of Babylon, the Pharaoh of Egypt, and the Roman emperors, they could be a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a recompense, an enemy of freedom.
Rome moved from a free republic to an indirect democracy, and then to a socialist dictatorship. The “middle – class [was] sandwiched between a new arid conspicuous moneyed class and a proletariat that had no other aspiration but to be kept by a Welfare State.”[24]
Religion comes from a Latin word [25], meaning to bind. The religion of society will determine the state of society. The religion of Christ binds the people by charity and love. [26] Civil religion is the result of a social contract. When welfare of society is provided by the sword of the State, pure religion is murdered and liberty dies. An authoritarian bureaucracy of the State becomes the new ministers and priests of society. All who take by that sword will perish under that sword.
Why were Christians persecuted so brutally by the Imperial Cult of Rome?
The Christian conflict was because those who were actually following Christ refused to apply for the social welfare offered by Rome, which was sometimes called Qorban. Judea's king Herod the Great had developed a similar system called Corban, which Christ condemned as making the word of God to none effect.
When the people want to use "a political and economic System" to turn their neighbor into a human resource for their own benefit, they themselves will become Merchandise. They will be entangled in the Elements of the World.
“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”[27]
Individual rights given by God and the privileged power of government granted by men have been at war since Cain killed Able. “State is an end and individual is means to this end or state is means and individual is end in itself.”[28] The State’s duties never venture into the redistribution of wealth in a moral society, because man was not endowed with the right to take from his brother.
The exploitation of man is built into all systems of Socialism or Communism, which centralizes power to compel the most productive members of society to support the least productive, robbing one class of citizen of the maturing choice of true charity and another of initiative to not be a burden to their fellow man.
This practice of unselfish care for others through choice encourages the corrupting influence of the "Saul Syndrome" in those who exercise authority to inevitably become tyrants while encouraging the people to engage in covetous practices which always degenerate the masses.
Capitalism normally remans an economic system that produces the greatest prosperity for the greatest number of people if it remain adverse to the centralization of political power and does not justifying the coveting of other people's sweat and toil or the fruit of their labor.
In Socialism, everything is part of One purse, and by its nature it says it is okay to be Biting one another.
“Redistribution is immoral... it allows one person to treat another as no more than a means...”[29]
The welfare state is the enemy of pure religion.[30]When pure religion diminishes, socialism flourishes.
“Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.” [31]
Some people, through social compact, give the State the power to take from its members for the welfare of society. That power has been deemed a foolish rejection of God.[32]
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”[33]
“All socialism involves slavery.” [34]
“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion”[35]
What you want is Pure Religion. Join the Network and start seeking the righteousness Christ talked about. This means they need to attend to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
The modern Christians are in need of repentance.
"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.
- One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.
- If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.[36]
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“I will never live for the sake of another man or ask another man to live for mine” [37]
But Christ did come to live for the sake of others.[38] But there is a way that must be done and a way that it must not be done.[39] Where is Jesus Christ in what Modern Christians are saying and are doing today?
“We must learn to distinguish between charity and socialism. Charity is good, socialism is evil. (Proverbs 14:30, 31, 19:17) Charity is for the helpless poor while [the socialist's] welfare makes the poor helpless. (Galatians 2:10)”[40]
Are we Mystery Babylon ... are we Sodom?
"And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;..." Genesis 18:20
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49
"But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself." Daniel 1:8
- "The history of the birth of freedom... Are men to be ruled by God's law, or the whims of dictator..? Are men property of the state? Or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today. " The 1956 movie “The Ten Commandments.” -Cecil B. DeMille (Producer/Director).
What makes you property of the State is your covetous practices through forms of socialism and the sloth, Wantonness and self-righteousness it feeds in you. What sets you free os to be born again in The Way of Christ. That is to heed His word and repent, seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness by coming together as He commanded, in His name through charitable sacrifice in the love of one another to attend to the weightier matters.
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Same old promise, Same old lie!
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- ↑ Marx meant the physical resources necessary to produce goods and services, including tools, machinery, factories, natural resources, and raw materials but not human labor. He argued that in a capitalist society, this physical property is owned by the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science.
- ↑ Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc was a French socialist politician, journalist and historian. He called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor.
- ↑ Works, Volume 4, By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon a French socialist, politician, philosopher, economist and the founder of mutualist philosophy.
- ↑ : 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate(873 aphorizo), saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ Bloody cities
- Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 9:9 "Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not."
- Ezekiel 22:2 "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations."
- Ezekiel 22:3 "Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself."
- Ezekiel 24:6 "Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it."
- Ezekiel 24:9 "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great."
- Hosea 6:8 "Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood."
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not... 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:... 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh... 11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:
- Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
- Psalms 26:9 "Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:"
- Psalms 5:6 "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man."
- Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 59:2 "Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalms 139:19 "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men."
- ↑ Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 – 2009, prominent American clergyman.
- ↑ See Collectivism
- ↑ Lives of Issac Heath and John Bowles, Elders of the Church and of John Eliot, Jr., preacher in the mid 1600’, written by J, Wingate Thorton. 1850
- ↑ April 3, 1918, the American creed was read in Congress, “I believe in the United States of America as a government… whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed: a democracy in a republic.”
- ↑ “Democracy is the road to socialism” Oration at Karl Marx's grave "As Marx said: “Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society” – by which, I believe, he meant the state. He also said: “Democracy is the road to socialism”. The battle for democracy is yet to be won, but the army of labour is crying out for the battle to be rejoined." Alex Gordon is President of Maritime & Transport Workers (UK )]
- ↑ The Spirit of American Government, Professor J. Allen Smith.
- ↑ Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858.
- ↑ Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776.
- ↑ "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius saw the downfall of the republic a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of Jesus Christ and John the Baptist.
- ↑ Benjamin Rush, John Joachim Zubly, pastor and delegate to Congress, in a 1788 letter to David Ramsay. William Elder, Questions of the Day, (Baird publisher, 1871) p.175. Also attributed to Jefferson & Jedidiah Morse.
- ↑ 1495 ~εἰδωλολατρεία~ eidololatreia \@i-do-lol-at-ri’-ah\@ from 1497 and 2999; n f AV-idolatry 4; 4
- 1) the worship of false gods, idolatry
- 1a) of the formal sacrificial feasts held in honour of false gods of the temples providing Public religion.
- 1b) of avarice, as a worship of Mammon
- 2) in the plural, the vices springing from idolatry and peculiar to it
- 1) the worship of false gods, idolatry
- ↑ Word Pictures in the New Testament: Robertson, A. T. (1863-1934)
- ↑ Tyndale Bulletin 44.2 (1993) 237- 254. Not so Idle thoughts about Eidolouthuton. By Ben Witherington III
- ↑ Mark 7:10-13 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
- ↑ The Life and Times of Nero, by Carlo Maria Franzero 1954
- ↑ The word 'religion' includes a Latin stem word, 'ligare', from which we derive the word 'ligament', and it indicates a band or tie. The opposite of religion is described using the word 'superstition', which is from the Latin words 'super' and 'stitio', meaning 'above standing' (the idea of taking a stand above some object). Superstition can be illustrated by a narcissist who is refusing to participate in common law duties, choosing instead his own 'personal belief'. By this means, the narcissist believes he is 'unbound' (exempt) from whatever binds the society.
- ↑ Charity and love have their beginning in the home environment by means of familial bonds of love and generosity. Children, obey your parents ((Colossians 3:20). Turn the hearts of fathers to the children (Luke 1:17; Malachi 4:5). This extends to bonds of love in a community when families forsake not the assembling of themselves together, holding fast to faith, to provoke one another unto love and good works (Hebrews 10:23-25)resulting from the grace of God inspiring individuals with sincere worship and obedience of God.
- ↑ John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 1872 – 1933, 30th President of the United States.
- ↑ Natural State, Welfare State or Failed State by T H Shah
- ↑ The Kantian ethic of capitalism. Harold B. Jones, Jr.
- ↑ State Welfare Spending and Religiosity, A Cross National Analysis by Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde
- ↑ Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931. n. 120. Also see 5 more quotes
- ↑ Ex. 20:17, 1 Sa. 8; 13:13, Ro. 7:7, 13:9, Col. 3:5, Heb. 13:5, 2 Pe. 2:3-14
- ↑ Frederic Bastiat, 1801 – 1850, French theorist, political economist.
- ↑ Herbert Spencer, 1820 – 1903, an English philosopher.
- ↑ Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 – 2009, prominent American clergyman.
- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Luke 22:25-26 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. - ↑ Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand. Inscription above Galt’s Gulch powerhouse.
- ↑ God of life and love
- Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
- John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- 1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
- John 6:33-34“33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.”
- Mark 10:45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep... 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.... 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again."
- John 13:37-38 “Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. 38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.”
- John 15:13-14 “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Matthew 21:43
- Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
- 1 John 3:16-18 “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
- ↑ Taketh away life
- Genesis 3:24 "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
- Exodus 32:8 "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess."
- Proverbs 15:27 "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live."
- Proverbs 1:19 "So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof."
- Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you."
- Micah 2:1 "Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil."
- Luke 12:23 "The life is more than meat, and the body [is more] than raiment."
- Mark 10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
- Mark 12:14 "And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?"
- John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly."
- John 10:17 "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again."
- John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
- Acts 18:25 "This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John."
- 2 Thessalonians 2:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way."
- 2 Peter 2:2 "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of."
- 2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
- Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core."
- 1 John 3:16 "Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren."
- ↑ Evangelical Bible College of Western Australia Commentary. Revelation by Dr Peter Mose [Book 97-2] July 2004
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