Is Socialism Anti Christian?
By The Ranting Citizen
so·cial·ism Pronunciation: 'sO-sha-"li-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1837
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.
In short socialism is a matter of a Robin Hood mentality of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, or in other words “redistribution of wealth.”
Is America a socialist country? Yes and no. Our tax system has turned more and more socialist, taking from the haves and giving to the have-nots. The first income tax in the United States was levied following the Civil War so that the Union government could pay its bills. But in 1895 a later income tax was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the tax, was ratified February 25, 1913.
The income Tax was initially to pay for war, and slowly that money began to be redistributed by the government and also to support the bureaucracy required to redistribute that wealth.
Initially, the tax confiscated a small amount of money and was geared toward the rich. The wealthy alone could not bear the burden and so it was directed at the middle class and now we all share in this redistribution of wealth. The haves pay more than the have nots, but through other taxes like sales tax, phone taxes, gas taxes so forth and so on we all pay taxes that get mixed around the machine and spit out again, smaller than when they went in. We all know the stories about how if you put a frog in cool water and then slowly turn up the heat, you can boil them before they will jump out, so it is with taxation.
Tax Freedom day is that day when we stop working for the government and actually get to keep our earnings. You can see here how the boiler has slowly been turned up on the American working frogs.
Tax Freedom Day:
In 1902 was January 31
In 1922 was February 17
In 1948 was March 28
In 1958 was April 10
In 1968 was April 24
In 1978 was April 30
In 1988 was May 2
In 1998 was May 10
If you didn’t catch that, the average American worker is a slave of the government and their forced taxation machine for the first 5 months and 10 days of the year, then you get to keep the rest of your money.
What happens to all that money?
Well, it all goes into a big government machine that spins it around and then kicks it back out again in all sorts of directions.
First of all, those who “administer” the various programs have to get paid, in the welfare department that takes up about 70%-75% of that money, then the left over 25-30% of that money gets redistributed to the poor. As a result, the poor get just enough to be utterly dependent on this money, but they do not get enough to have hope to rise above their poverty. So the politicians promise more money to the poor who are addicted to the government dole, they vote for those who promise more and get just a little more and the rest of us have our tax freedom day moved back another week or two to pay for it.
The name of the game is taking from the haves and giving to the have nots. The poor hate the rich and upper middle class and even the middle class because they have more than they do. Then politicians pandering to the poor voters tell them that it is not fair that the rich should have such an unfair advantage.
It seems to me that the Bible speaks about such attitudes, yes that’s right, Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.” I think all of that would also include thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s income.
The redistribution of wealth is in fact completely dedicated to promulgating covetousness among the American people with slogans like “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” This sort of talk only inflames envy and feelings that the wealthy have an unfair advantage.
Who are the wealthy anyway? According to the latest standards, if a family makes approximately $90k a year, they are in the top tax bracket and thus considered wealthy. That means that a family where both the husband and wife are tenured high school teachers and earn the national average for high school teachers, they are rich and have an unfair advantage over the “poor.”
I would be willing to bet that if you talked to those two teachers, they sure would not feel like they were on a par with the CEO of a major corporation or a litigation lawyer (more about lawyers and their sins another time).
So who is it that most of us think of as being rich? This question depends on your position in life. Those who make $20k a year think that if they could just make $40k, they might be set and for sure if they made $100k, but the fact is, they would still spend more than they make if they did not learn to manage their money. Those who make $100k tend to think that if they could just make $200k they might be set, those who make $200k want more and so forth and so on until you get to Bill Gates worth more than $30 BILLION and still building his empire in the quest for more and more.
Are the rich greedy with their “more is never enough mentality?” No more greedy than the poor with their “more is never enough mentality.” The difference is that hopefully the rich have worked themselves silly to get to where they are and if they have gotten there through deceit, then of course, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
How should we react to those who have more than we do? First of all, we should never covet what they have. Coveting is basically saying, “those people do not deserve that, I do.” Or, “its not right that they have that which I don’t!”
But the rich often get that way through self-denial, postponing gratification. That is a wise thing, so why despise those who have struggled to gain when so many have not?
Those who despise those who have achieved things often blame everyone but themselves for their situation. There are those who have made poor decisions in their lives. Those who get pregnant outside of marriage are often trapped in a scenario of raising children without the aid of a second or even primary income which is satisfactory for raising children. Those who refuse to go to college because they do not think that it is “their thing.” Those who never put in the extra time and effort at work to rise through the ranks. Those who get stuck in their current position and never try to rise above it for fear of risk.
All these tend to be the covetous people who the liberal politician appeal to with promises of more Government assistance.
Is socialism Anti Christian ? I believe that since it is built on class envy and covetousness, it is safe and right to say, yes, it leads others into sin.
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