Mr. Perfect wrote:Well there is a whole other element here Tinker, and that is culture. I am constantly told that we must celebrate our differences and be accepting of other cultures. I think by this dictum it would go against multiculturalism to not celebrate clothes wearing culture wherever you find it.
genuflect cultures, just be accepting of individuals and the cultures will be respected by proxy. That's the genius of Libertarianism. In what other system can Communists and Republicans co-exist?
I think I got it just fine. Jesus wanted people not to be poor that was very clear. In this example he gave the command to one person, not all of Christianity. If he wanted all of Christianity to do that I have no doubt he would have said so.
I think his point had an aspirational quality that goes far beyond the fundamental notion of property ownership. Property ownership is a thing 'of the world'. And you don't seem to understand the difference between the worldly and that other thing he was referring to. Thus your obsession with the primary metaphor of accepting Jesus and the resurrection, which is in and of itself worldly, it's the portal from the world, to the other.
But if you're opening the can of worms and saying that Christ's messages were all individualized, then how can we tell what things he said that applied to us, and which things he said applied to all of Christianity? Especially considering he never used the word, "Christian", once.
My research shows that free enterprise and the nuclear family are the best combat against poverty. That is why I am a Republican.
Yes, but that's got nothing to do with freedom. You're combating poverty. You're talking about providing people with money, with goods, with services. That's not freedom. You can do all of those things without 'freedom'. And we haven't had free enterprise in this country in your or my lifetime. Do I need a professional license to be a massage therapist? Am I required to have the insurance that can only be provided through the Massage Therapist Professional Association? If so, then that's not FREE enterprise, that's tightly controlled enterprise. I have a skill, I can 'lay hands' and heal someone, as Jesus did. But if I don't keep my license current, I can be charged with a felony. Yeah...free enterprise indeed.
Jesus certainly never said that. You are free to make up your own god laws if you want, there may just be some eventual consequences.
He certainly did say that.
You just don't realize that the book you follow so strictly was redacted by the Roman Empire in order to encourage obedience and conformity. You hate Communists, a very Roman trait, though in reality what you really mean by "Communists", is the 'Eastern Empire' vs Capitalist the 'Western Empire'. You mean Roman authoritarianism vs Roman authoritarianism. Early Christians absolutely lived as Communists in that they had Democracies where people were equal and made decisions collectively.
There are all sorts of ridiculous things that absolutely don't apply to modern life and people interpret the bible however they want. It hardly mentions homosexuality, but Christians use a textual basis to hate homosexuals. It has some very strong words to say on Usury, yet those same Christians laud Capitalism which is fundamentally, a system of usury. So if I am making up my own God Laws, it would seem I am not the only one.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
-Alexander Hamilton
as they were before........................
