No, I’m not a Marxist — I’m also not a Communist, Fascist, Neo-Marxist, nor am I a Republican or a Democrat. No labels fit me because I have a tendency to lean to the side of whomever is RIGHT in every situation regardless of what political faction is leading the charge toward morality.
However…
In my studies of Marxism, better known as “socialism”, and also as I have read The Communist Manifesto itself simply because I was curious about what it actually said, it occurred to me that there isn’t a thing wrong with it.
America could not possibly be more butt-hurt than it already is. Embracing Socialism isn’t going to lower this society any farther down than it’s already gone.
There are at LEAST 66 reasons why those who call or label themselves the Sons and Daughters of the Gospel of Christ should have become socialists a long time ago — the one they say they follow as they call themselves “Christians” were and are just that.
G e n e s i s
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.…”
Note: I have given you. Not once did He charge them a cent for the food and gave them no scriptural authority in heaven or earth to charge anyone else for it either. It’s not in the Bible, period, so don’t bother dreaming it up. Didn’t happen.
***Take careful note that the Master Study Bible outlines Genesis 9 as “The Future of the Races of Earth,” but that is an egregious error that had nothing to do with race, but with the sons of Noah — all Black men. This all happened more than 200,000 years ago … not within the last 7,000 to 10,000 years. That is an ongoing error that should have been corrected a long time ago.***
E X O D U S
This is a well-documented book of Black people’s very first “rodeo” with slavery...the Shemitic (semitic peoples) captured and enslaved in Egypt by their own brothers, the Canaanite (Hamitic) peoples.
When Moses appeared to Pharaoh and told him that God said “Let MY people go...”, it wasn’t a request, it was demand for complete redemption. No money was exchanged for their freedom.
Pain was inflicted on humankind through the desire for material gain and poverty is definitively man-made. The system or establishment charges people for that which it did not pay for, not because the money is necessary, but because the need for control and power outweighs cash all day long.
Anyone who knows that money will outlast them is not satisfied with being rich, but they also want to be honored and revered by others as “all-powerful” and all-knowing because of what they have achieved and accomplished.
Indeed, one of man’s most selfish endeavors to worship themselves and their pets was rejected by God Himself. The Hebrew people didn’t need a dime from Pharaoh on the way out and still survived.
Redemption and ultimate freedom didn’t cost them a red cent. We could stand to learn from that.
L E V I T I C U S
By the time the Levites came to understand their responsibility in service to the needs of the people, they also took a leadership role in handling foodstuffs and supplies in the form of what is oft-referred to as The Storehouse. Many simply never got that The Storehouse was for 90-percent redistribution back to the needs of the community and the Levites only got to keep a tenth OF the tenth for themselves, or a tithe of the tithe.
People misinterpret the tithes spoken of in the 3rd Book of Malachi as “money donated to the church for pastoral upkeep and building funds” when it was no such thing. The Storehouse was a failsafe, a place for everyone to bring a portion or a share of what they had so that there would be no hunger or lack during the off-season
Everyone equally brought a tenth of their own produce and what-nots and when it was time, the grain bins and best harvest of the flock would feed the people and keep them housed and clothed even in lean times. The scripture reads “so that he who had much did not have too much and he who had little had no lack.” The Storehouse was for the purpose of EQUALITY OF DISTRIBUTION, or what some anti-socialists would refer to as “spreading the wealth.”
Well, if you are a TRUE Christian, the Bible demands and requires that you do just that.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states “Egalitarian doctrines tend to rest on a background idea that all human persons are equal in fundamental worth or moral status. So far as the Western European and Anglo-American philosophical tradition is concerned, one significant source of this thought is the Christian notion that God loves all human souls equally.”— II Corinthians 8:14-15.
I have not seen a scripture in any Bible in any version of it that disputes this notion or is against it. it’s not a demand for socialism, it’s a scriptural truth.
By the word of God, there is such a thing as being TOO rich.
N u m b e r s
I’ve seen people in evangelical churches who often used the book of Numbers as their background for laying out a lot of superstitious sayings and reasons for their particular belief systems. It wasn’t a surprise to later discover that many of these teachings were brought into play in the church by people who were recovering witches and sorcerers.
They taught much about the meaning of unleavened bread and the numerical system of the numbering of the people of Israel. The detailed the meaning of the Passover (the symbolic painting over the doorways of the Hebrew people that caused the death angel to ‘pass over’ their homes and spare the lives of their sons) and even lit into teachings about The Tabernacle and Kadesh and all of its different brilliant colors and cloths and materials and all of it was supposed to be a symbolic representation of the lives we live now. Not of it withstood the test of time, however.
The only thing that did outlive those teachings was the knowledge that reconciliation with God is one of the most beautiful brilliant and colorful things that could ever happen to a person’s life. God may have used material things we could see to represent to us that which is a replica of what is “in Heaven,” but it was never about the numbers or the symbols or the materials or the squashing of worms in order to get to the brilliant color of purple or the use of ancient metallurgy and alchemy to bring out the sparkle of the gold — it was all God telling us how very much He thought of us and how precious to Him that we really are, numbered hair by hair and fingerprint by fingerprint.
That’s pretty delicately socialist and defines the ways of the “tree-hugging liberal” mentality like nothing else can. It’s the reason trees were planted in the CENTER of the Garden of Eden in the first place.
As precious as they are to us, we were even more precious to Him. That’s it.
D e u t e r o n o m y
As the last of the books of what is known in modern history as the Book of Laws of the Mosaic order, it is stunning to see how legalistic and just how tainted the very definitions of God’s work in the world can be used against people instead of in their favor.
When I was younger we used to say there is no such thing as laws for people who didn’t break them. If you don’t break them, they don’t apply to you. Then Black America found out that under man-made laws contrary to the laws of God, this is an untruth.
If the ‘powers’ can’t find a law on the books for non-breakers of it, they will make it up as they go. It is no wonder that under such man-made white imperialistic laws, a Black youth such as Trayvon Martin can find himself demonized in the grave for trying to defend himself against an armed killer ‘while Black’.
Even more amazing is the people who can go to church and Bible study and actually defend Cain for murdering Abel out of nothing more than rote jealousy and then call themselves “christians.”
The cost of inheriting the land in the book of Deuteronomy was not money, it was obedience to the laws of God.
Later, we would come to understand that no man was capable of keeping the constraints of the laws, because human error (i.e., sin) was a fact of life that no one could escape.
Roman-inspired laymen have turned the words “Thou shalt not murder” into “Thou shalt murder under these circumstances and get away with it under those circumstances.”
There was never so much a Christian soul in the world as the socialist mentality of warring against guns and weapons of mass destruction, and the vile hatred of killing others just for the sheer hell of it.
That socialist mentality against killing and the laws that should surround punishment for murder is about as “christian” as it gets in this modern world.
The conservatives and anti-socialist spirits of animosity are deadly wrong on this one, it goes against the very Bible they claim to adhere to while they are worshiping white jesus.
The Ten Commandments don’t read “Thou shalt not murder except under these prescribed conditions...” And before you say a word otherwise with regard to wars in the land, keep in mind that “It’s God’s world and we’re all just a bunch of squirrels trying to get at a nut.”
Same thing when you’re in my house as opposed to me being in yours.
Those are just the first five of sixty-six books of the Bible.
There are sixty-one MORE reasons AND an Apocrypha left to examine that will ALL prove that “pure socialism” is an underlying theme for every single text of scripture in the Bible. There is nothing (n- o- t- h- i- n- g) in the Word of God that supports, underlines, underscores or hypes it up for modern-day theoretic or literal applications of capitalism in society. NOTHING at all.
If anyone should embrace theoretical and philosophical socialist ideologies, the saints of God (those who call themselves Christians after the name of Christ) ought to be the first in line.
Some of these times, those who claim they don’t believe in God have more of the TRUEST mind and mentality of Christ (a socialist-type mindset) than those who claim they are lifelong vested in it and do not practice what they preach to others.
The Heart of the Truest Believer is a righteous belief in the goodness of all mankind, not in a pledge of allegiance those who do evil in the land and are predisposed to it.
TO BE CONTINUED...
