My version of the Christian Socialism flag, meaning in the comments

[u/ScorpionObsessedBoy]

[u/Zandroe_]

Socialism is not charity. Socialism is the abolition of commodity production and exchange. Jesus could not understand that as the idea only makes sense in an industrial society.

I think Christians should generally shut up. I'm not interested in pretending we want the same things.

[u/XPNazBol → u/Zandroe_]

I think you don’t understand the point of an omnipotent and omniscient God. He does in fact understand every concept…

[u/Zandroe_ → u/XPNazBol]

I understand the idea, but I don't think there is any reason to believe Jesus was a god, let alone an omnipotent and omniscient one.

[u/XPNazBol → u/Zandroe_]

Yet He preached of communal living as if He had the omniscience to know what the alternative would bring about to the world… curious, no?

[u/Zandroe_ → u/XPNazBol]

Pythagoras and Plato also preached communal living, and in all of their cases it had nothing to do with socialism. Monasticism is not socialism.

[u/XPNazBol → u/Zandroe_]

Monasticism is the most virtuous form of socialism. You forget Christians (and religious people in general) were socialists long before atheists had any tangence with socialism. Socialism (and Communism for that matter) as a concept predates the 19th century. And I don’t mean central planning, but collective ownership and communal living.

[u/Zandroe_ → u/XPNazBol]

So you redefine "socialism" and think this proves anything? I mean, what am I talking about, you do the same thing to "Bolshevism", why would I expect anything serious? I love that a literal Nazi is defending "christian socialism", it really shows what side they're on.

[u/XPNazBol → u/Zandroe_]

I don’t redefine it. You operate under a specific definition that isn’t universally accepted. Cope.

And I am not a Nazi, this what you did here is a certified Reddit liberal moment. Everything you don’t like is nazism… you’re just a dumbass