More would read your posts that you work so hard to send if you spent more time on HOW you write.

Please consider.

ab jesus. if u wld read torah or bible several times or over a lifetime; u’l discover many contradictions, verbal brilliances, commandments, etc.

and we humans r notorious for not learning by commandments. and we do not know what jesus said; we only know what some priests said jesus said.

eg, jesus was quoted as saying, For u shall always have poor amongst u.
now, is that what god wishes for some people? poverty?
he may have said, Meek shall inherit the earth. but how ab children and women of palestine? where is their inheritance? in graves, right?

but even priests like, robert schuller, says bible is an interpretative writ. so is the constitution but only a plutocratic interpretation is accepted not mine or urs. thnx

Humbly submitted

it implies also that nato has an a priori right to invade a land

it implies that nato/us is correct;doing the butchery w. good intentions.

it implies that afhg’n and iraq have imperiled the west; in spite of the fact that no afghan or iraqi had hurt a canadian or euro in any matter whasoever.
and one cld go on. hope u obtained an elucidation. it has nothing to do w. eloquence; eloquence being generalized and meningless uttrances. thnx

For if the readiness is there first, it is especially acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what a person does not have. For I do not mean for it to be easy for others, but hard on YOU;  but that by means of an equalizing YOUR surplus just now might offset their deficiency, in order that their surplus might also come to offset YOUR deficiency, that an equalizing might take place. Just as it is written: “The person with much did not have too much, and the person with little did not have too little.” (2Corinthians 8:12-15)

An equalizing of possessions is not a difficult concept to grasp. Some might want to put a label on this kind of biblical philosophy like ”socialism”. Whatever you call it, it is so simplistic that Milton Friedman wouldn’t be able to grasp it, but my 4yo daughter can. There is no Doctorate in Sharing at the University of Chicago as far as I know.

Eric, I’m with you brother………………..

a propagandist knows this and will get u involved in an endless acrimonial discussion ab what religion, politics, capiatalism, fascsim, socialism, justice, peace, fairness, etc. mean.
meanwhile, while we r discussing, s’mbody else decides what is to be done.

ab jesus. no one know what jesus said. one can only tell and tell but never show nor prove. it can be assumed that both torah the whorah and bible the blable r adulterated; thus so much bitterness/hatred/intolerance by pious people. thnx

He couldn’t resist sneering at Islam! A wholly gratuitous sneer, too, in an article (supposedly) devoted to the relationship between Christianity and marxism. At that point, the whole article loses its credibility.

I kindly suggest that it may be interesting to you to closely examine a modern day organization that is a world class theocratic group, a society in our midst within secular society that practices exactly what you were talking about. Complete reliance on Jesus’ teachings and none other. A society within a society, 7 million worldwide. With the greatest humility I suggest that you may find it interesting to interview one of our Brothers to see how this miraculous organization covers the earth in over 400 languages 236 lands by common unlettered volunteer publishers from every walk of life in every country. We operate in more than 100,000 small congregations, usually numbering less than 100, the world over and are also persecuted down to this day, yes even hated because they like Jesus are no part of this political world. (John 18:36) Our identifying mark is love (John 13:34,35) and in going from house to house preaching to the individual person. (Acts of the Apostles 20:20) Putting doctrine aside for a moment and focusing only on the activities and the unity of this theocratic organization would amaze any thinking individual. I am willing to guess you even know who I am talking about. Many think alot of different things about these people. Many say they know about these people and tell others to stay away. “It’s a cult” is a favorite comment as well as amusing. But an individual can only be wrong about them if he assumes he knows about them.

Thanks Eric

Late 60′s: Big Recession

Mid-70′s: Big Recession

Early 80′s: Big Recession

Early 90′s: Big Recession

2000′s: One long recession leading to a Depression scare.

Over and over and over again. The economy booms; the economy busts. Just fine for the wealthy, but the mass majority is hurt over and over during the course of their lives. It needs to stop.

Coincidentally enough, I’ve reading and re-reading the following Engels passage the last couple of weeks, feeling as though it could have been
written yesterday:

“Commerce is at a standstill, the markets are glutted, products accumulate, as multitudinous as they are unsaleable, hard cash disappears, credit vanishes, factories are closed, the mass of the workers are in want of the means of subsistence, because they have produced too much of the means of subsistence; bankruptcy follows upon bankruptcy, execution upon execution.

The stagnation lasts for years; productive forces and products are wasted and destroyed wholesale, until the accumulated mass of commodities finally filter off, more or less depreciated in value, until production and exchange gradually begin to move again.

Little by little, the pace quickens. It becomes a trot. The industrial trot breaks into a canter, the canter in turn grows into the headlong gallop of a perfect steeplechase of industry, commercial credit and speculation, which finally, after breakneck leaps, ends where it began–in the ditch of a crisis. And so over and over again.”

if we entirely drop away a word like socialism and think ab how we can improve interpersonal and international relationships, we wldn’t not bog dwn in a mere label and what it may mean.

especailly since we did not have it yet anywhere. one can’t know an apple save by eating it.
surely, a society like in UK , canada, or germany waging wars against pals, afghans, iraqis, is a murderous/vile society.