[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)
pholden at davtv.com
pholden at davtv.com
Tue Jan 23 15:06:10 PST 2007
Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:
> [Platt]
> Those are all good things to do provided you don't force others to do them
> and make recepients dependent on them, i.e., teach a man to fish. Jesus said
> something about render unto Caesar the things that are his, and unto God the
> things that are His, or words to that effect. Jesus was anything but Marx.
> You'll not there is nothing in the Declaration or the Constitution about
> rights that have to be provided by the forced labor of others such as food,
> shelter and health care.
>
> [Case]
> Not good examples here Platt. Jesus's comments regarding Caesar are hard to
> assess in modern time. First century Jews believed that the whole of Israel
> belonged to God so one reading of his words is that he was saying not to
> give Caesar squat.
>
> Jesus and his followers were more Marxists than Marx. In the early church
> followers held all property in common. In Acts when a convert and his wife
> receive an inheritance and hold a little back for themselves Peter declares
> it the justice of God when the man is stricken dead. (I think I have muddled
> the details of that story a bit but feel free to research it and correct
> me.)
Where did the put the gulags?
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