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[[File:socialismchurch.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Real [[Christians]] do not depend upon systems of [[Welfare|social welfare]] that [[force]] the contributions of the people.
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 [[Polybius|degenerates]] it's members weakening the poor financially and the character of the rich. It divides society. [[Force]]d redistribution of wealth nurtures tyranny.<Br>Anyone who advocates any form of [[socialism]] or [[legal charity]] desires to take liberty to choose, the [[Exousia|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. <Br>[[Socialism is Religion]]. To seek [[socialism]] is to desire the "[[wages of unrighteousness]]" which is the opposite of [[seek]]ing 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]].<Br>What made [[Great_nation|America a great nation]] was the fact that almost all [[education]], [[health]] and [[welfare]] was provided by the people through [[charity]] and [[Pure Religion of Christ|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 ==

[[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.”''

<blockquote>''"Socialism works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it, and hell where they already have It." —Ronald Reagan''</blockquote>

{{#ev:youtube|6oON6EST2Gs|300|right|John Stossel - [[Capitalism]] vs [[Socialism]]. Neil Sroka (Democracy for America Communications) joins John to argue the need for more socialism, while economist Ivan Pongracic (Hillsdale College) explains why such a path is folly. One argument against [[Was Jesus a socialist|Jesus being a socialist]] from [[Luke 12]]:13 ''"And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?  And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of [[covet]]ousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."'' Time 11:17}}

[[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 [[covet]]ing 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]]

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[[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]]. 

{{#ev:youtube|A0ON0xUMawg|300|right|Ami Horowitz: What’s wrong with [[socialism]]?  Some American liberals want 'Democratic Socialism' in the US, so Ami Horowitz traveled to Venezuela to witness first-hand how socialism has bred violence and despair among its citizens. Time 9:07}}

<blockquote>''"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." [[3 John 1]]:2''</blockquote> 

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]]. 

{{#ev:youtube|l3GfCmbPDN0|300|right|[https://youtu.be/l3GfCmbPDN0 A PragerU video] answers the question of which is more selfish, [[socialism]] or [[capitalism]]? Does one make people kinder and more caring, while the other makes people greedy and more selfish? In this video, Dennis Prager explains the moral differences between [[socialism]] and [[capitalism]], and why anyone who wants a kind and generous society must support one and oppose the other. ~4:23 min}}

{{#ev:youtube|MvF_D4tVfYU|300|right|[https://youtu.be/MvF_D4tVfYU A PragerU video] What is '''democratic socialism'''? What makes it different than regular [[socialism]]? Has it been tried? Could it work in the United States? Comedian and political commentator Steven Crowder, host of Louder With Crowder, explains. Follow Steven Crowder! http://louderwithcrowder.com/ ~4:25 min}}

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. 

<blockquote>''“[[Socialism]] is the [[Religion|religion]] people get when they lose their [[Pure Religion|religion]]”<Ref>Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 – 2009, prominent American clergyman.</Ref>''</blockquote> 

== 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|democracy]].<Ref>See [[Collectivism]]</Ref>

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...”<Ref>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  </Ref>''

{{#ev:youtube|er5b9YVk-iE|300|right|Part 4: The [[Kingdom of God]], [[socialism]], [[democracy]] and tyranny ~5 min}}

Americans have moved from a virtuous self-reliant [[Republic|republic]] to [[Covetous Practices|covetous]] ''“democracy in a republic.”''<Ref>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|democracy]] in a republic.”''</Ref> 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: <blockquote>''“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.”''</blockquote> 
{{#ev:youtube|OxcPD9dDxU0|300|right|[https://youtu.be/OxcPD9dDxU0] Great 5 minute clip about the socialist economy in Cuba. Also [https://youtu.be/99w08FiKJXE 25 min video] ~4:57 min}}


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 [[covet]]ousness 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 [[anarchist|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.'<Ref>[http://www.spectrezine.org/%E2%80%9Cdemocracy-road-socialism%E2%80%9D-oration-karl-marxs-grave.html “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 )]</Ref>

<blockquote>''“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.”<Ref>The Spirit of American Government, Professor J. Allen Smith. </Ref>''</blockquote> 

== 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."<Br>
"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]]

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<blockquote>'' “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.”<Ref>Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858.</Ref>''</blockquote> 

<blockquote>'' “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.”<Ref> Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776.</Ref>''</blockquote> 

Long before [[Rome]] fell [[Polybius]] warned<Ref>"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 [[Emperator|Emperor]] of [[Rome]] and 175 years before the birth of [[Jesus]] [[Christ]] and [[John the Baptist]].</Ref> 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.

<blockquote>'' “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''</blockquote> 

<blockquote>'' “A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”<Ref>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.</Ref>''</blockquote> 


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'''Not so Secure Socialism'''<Br>
Same old promise, Same old lie!<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/notsecuress.php<Br>
Appeared first on NewsWithViews 8-1-10

Part 4 The kingdom of God, '''socialism''', democracy and tyranny -<Br>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5b9YVk-iE 

'''Democracy'''<Br>
From the book The Higher Liberty, Sec. 14<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/democracy.php

'''The Decline of Freedom''',<Br>
The Foundation of Tyranny <Br>
Part two of The Real Destroyers of the Liberty of the people?<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/declinefreedom.php<Br>
Appeared first on NewsWithViews 3-21-09

'''Defining the Lies of Democracies''' <Br>
Democracy! What does history tell us? <Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/democracylie.php<Br>
Appeared first on NewsWithViews 9-11-10
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Doom, Gloom, and Democracy''' <Br>
The real destroyer is our own covetousness <Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/doomdemocracy.php<Br>
Appeared first on NewsWithViews 4-30-09

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