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In reply to the discussion: WaPo Guest Columnist - "From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity" - Great Read! [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)"am going to start with Mark Chapter 10:21-25 21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? "
He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
Obama is not a Socialist. Jesus however was the first Socialist."
http://valentinelogar.hubpages.com/hub/Jesus-was-a-Socialist
These are the same people that will readily quote the Levitical Law against homosexuality...the rather barbarian set of laws Jesus came to replace.