Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus

• zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jesus literally said to pay your taxes. What is a tax other that forced redistribution?

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes but did he say paying your taxes will remove the obligation to take care of your neighbor?

    I’m kinda missing the verse where he said “Give Caesar what is Caesar’s, and let him take care of the poor.”

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    • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So Caeser can take the money and kill Christians with it instead? I’m not sure you’re making the point you think you’re making.

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      • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, and that did in fact happen during the early days of the church, until Rome became the center of Christianity. So who won in the end?

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where did he condemn gay folk?

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What does that have to do with anything?

    The question was whether or not he advocated for socialism.

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jesus didn’t say a lot of things the way we say them today. He did though advocate for the poor.

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      • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He advocated for people giving directly to the poor (i.e. charity), not for letting the government handle that.

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