sola_gratia
Puritan Board Freshman
Some Christians around where I live have been advocating socialism/communism lately. It really has me all confused. Feel free to move this topic, but I posted it here because they argued that the early church in acts was socialist. I was told we could have God's moral law, and still function as a socialist/communist nation. I've seen some arguments against communism, but only arguments against atheists promoting it.
And they have some quotes that I was able to find online I was shown:
"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."
-Karl Marx
I'm not buying it, but still I am confused. And I am not sure where it is wrong. So any help would be great.
And they have some quotes that I was able to find online I was shown:
"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."
-Karl Marx
I'm not buying it, but still I am confused. And I am not sure where it is wrong. So any help would be great.