Was Jesus a Marxist

[bonnie]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/was_jesus_a_marxist.html

Was Jesus a Marxist?

By Robin of Berkeley

After my first Christmas mass, I felt strange for days. As hard as I tried, I couldn't put my finger on why.

A week later, it dawned on me -- I felt peaceful. Aha! No wonder I was stumped!.........

I liked the feeling though...a lot. I was breathing deeper and sleeping better. After it dissolved in another week or so, I wanted more of that peaceful, easy feeling.

Trying to ignore the doleful expression of my secular mate, I headed out to a few more lovely services -- at a synagogue, a Lutheran church, and, my personal favorite, Assemblies of God (as a perk, Sarah Palin's church of choice).

While perusing the Yellow Pages, I eyed another contender -- a church in a nearby town that touted superb music and a dynamic congregation.

When I called to find out more, I was pleased that the minister himself answered the phone. When I asked him to describe his church, he answered rather sternly, "We do God's work through social justice."

Taken aback, I said, "I'm looking for a church that focuses on God, not politics."

He countered vociferously, "We get to God through social justice!"

"That's a matter of dispute," I responded. "Thank you for your time." Click.........

It was partly the creepiness of a minister sounding so possessed. But more than this: I got a bird's-eye view of what Glenn Beck has been talking about for weeks.

Beck has revealed that churches are increasingly becoming socialist breeding grounds. It's not just the Rev. Wright who preached revolution. The president's new Palm Pilot minister, Jim Wallis, trumpets getting to heaven through redistribution.

It's bad enough that the radicals want our children, our newspapers, our money, and our health care. But hijacking God?

The Left tried first to separate people from God. They banished Him from schools and government; they ridiculed and mocked believers.......

At least the '60s radicals were transparent about their true colors. The Weathermen, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Black Panthers never held themselves out as Messiahs. They were right in your face with their terrorism, murders, and rapes.

Obama role model Saul Alinsky announced to the whole world which master the Left serves. Here's his dedication in Rules for Radicals:

Lest we forget at least an over-the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical ... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer...........

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To me, God is about surrender, not power; humility, not humiliation.

A life of the spirit means relinquishing control to God. Humans can't second-guess divine wisdom.........

I think that the progressives know, deep inside, in places they keep well-hidden, that their souls are damaged.

Their movement is not really about redistribution, or social justice, or green power. It's about extinguishing the Light that exposes their brokenness.........

But the religious Left don't want to minister to people with love and kindness. Instead, they're trying to recreate Jesus in their own image.

But, try as they might, they can't bulldoze their way into heaven. By even making the effort, they serve another master entirely.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

In all your ways acknowledge him,

And he will make your paths straight.

(Proverbs 3:5-6)

[karl]

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Their movement is not really about redistribution, or social justice, or green power. It's about extinguishing the Light that exposes their brokenness.........

I don't agree with the author's seeming effort to make out the motives of Libs to be evil. I think Libs mean well, but just haven't figured out how our culture works nor what inhibits our culture from working. They believe in the inherent goodness of poor people versus the inherent badness of wealthy people. They believe in the inherent goodness of government versus the inherent badness of business. They often believe in change just for the sake of change. That's why they elected Obama. It's a Marxist belief, but not an overtly devilish one. They just know they don't like what is, and they have a belief (unfounded IMHO) that things will be better if they overthrow what is. And they generally want to do this on a huge scale, rather than doing a small trial to see whether it will actually produce the results they desire.

My biggest problem with Libs is that they anthropomorphize government. Government is not a person. It cannot take care of us. Government is a parasite - a necessary evil - which can easily become a master rather than a servant.

[John317]

Was Jesus of Nazareth a Marxist? No.

Those who try to make it look like He was don't know Marxism. To be a true Marxist means to accept dialectical materialism. That's fundamental to Marx's belief system. In short, there is no room for God or supernational phenomena in true Marxism. All change in culture and society results only from material and economic processes. Some people confuse Marxism with Christian socialism, but that's really completely different from Marxism. Trostsky said, "I am a dialetical materialist, and therefore I am an atheist."

The wikipedia gives some basic and accurate information on it. I leave it to the reader to decide if this in any way describes Jesus or his world-view:

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Marxism is a particular political philosophy, economic and sociological worldview based upon a materialist interpretation of history, a Marxist analysis of capitalism, a theory of social change, and an atheist view of human liberation derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The three primary aspects of Marxism are:

The dialectical and materialist concept of history — Humankind's history is fundamentally that of the struggle between social classes. The productive capacity of society is the foundation of society, and as this capacity increases over time the social relations of production, class relations, evolve through this struggle of the classes and pass through definite stages (primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism). The legal, political, ideological and other aspects (e.g. art) of society are derived from these production relations as is the consciousness of the individuals of which the society is composed.

Compare this with so-called "Christian socialism," of which Liberation Theology is a type:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism