So, this afternoon I was on another OT thread and seemingly out of the blue Stoner wrote:
Well, I thought that was one of his famous typos--that he really meant to write:Christianity and socialism go well together.
Buuut....when I suggested that possibility, Stoner and Lorenzo (aka Grasshoppa), like, totally ganged up on me (sniffle...there's no emoticon for that).Pseudo-Christianity and socialism go well together.
So here's my question: what does everybody think of that proposition--is it "and" or "versus"?
To try to get this thing off the ground I'll just remind everyone of Jesus' saying that the poor you always have with you, and Paul's dictum that whoever doesn't work shouldn't eat--patently anti-Socialist stuff (if you catch my drift, once again). Yeah, yeah, I know there's all that stuff (drift?) about loving neighbors and even Samaritans, but I'm not gonna do the heavy lifting for the opposition--Lorenzo (aka Grasshoppa) will dig up that stuff ( ) from his Magical Mystery Scriptures, and Stoner can slam me with the revelation that there are Christian Socialist parties in Europe.
Now, I don't want to keep typing here, and I'm really more interested in other peoples' opinions on this (no, really!), however, as a bonus for those of you who have come this far I've got a link to a totally unrelated article by one of my favorite e-journalists:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3 ... 13&id=3839
Yeah, you can tell from the ".co.uk" he's one of those pinko Euro guys.
Ciao--for now.