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RacistElkStatue 39 points ago +41 / -2

Well because he gave everybody some bread and free healthcare, naturally! Nevermind he supposedly had endless powers to do magical things with no limit to resources, we can do the same thing by stealing from those who have things we want. It's totally how God would want us to act!

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BoughtByBloomberg2 30 points ago +30 / -0

You mean to tell me that a dude willingly giving from his own means to those that are less fortunate means communism is cool? Never thought about it that way.

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Ben45 9 points ago +9 / -0

Charity is a rad thing

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just-a-pleb 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's actually funny that the more people have the more they're willing to give away. I mean, name one communist shit hole that has multi billion dollar charities lol.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Soviet Union. North Korea. The state is the biggest charity after all. It never runs out of things to spend your money on.

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RacistElkStatue 3 points ago +3 / -0

My favorite inspiring quote from Jesus is "gibs me dat!!"

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Red_Hibiscus 25 points ago +25 / -0

Jesus encouraged and recommended that people give, he didn’t say anything about forcefully taking with the purpose of giving to someone else. That’s missing the entire point!

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Avdimar 15 points ago +15 / -0

Yep, and he wanted his believers to go out and spread his Gospel message. You don't see them excited to advance that part of his teachings.

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Techrev 16 points ago +16 / -0

I remember making that argument. He didn't set up a bread shop and sell the bread. I had a distorted idea in my head about what Communism and Socialism is. It's not sharing. It's about controlling limited resources in order to establish power. Jesus was turning a limited resource into an unlimited resource. Because he got them for free, he was able to give them away. In return, he got gratitude, which is actually a pretty good payment for something you got for free. Money isn't the only means of trade, it simply facilitates trade. Capitalism isn't about gouging people. That's possible, but it's not the point of it. That argument is, really, based on the misrepresentation that all Capitalists are money hungry and greedy. Absolutely untrue.

I, recently, made the argument that the 'System' the Left loves to refer to is, really, just a loose collection of 'systems', and nature. The Left, actually, wants to replace that with one System that they control. I think the biggest difference I see is that the Left love limited resources, bottlenecks, rewards, and punishments. For me, my goal is always to seek to minimize or eliminate punishment. Alleviate bottlenecks, turn limited resources into unlimited resources, etc. The left seeks to inject punishment wherever it can, and manufacture it wherever possible. It's like, since they know they can't control nature, they want to inject controls everywhere and anywhere they can. It's the next best thing. Controlling how we interface with nature.

They do the same with rewards. They seek to replace the rewards nature gives us, with manufactured ones.

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Sagesanford 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is a fucking exceptional commentary that everyone should read twice!

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RacistElkStatue 1 point ago +2 / -1

They don't have a God, so they want to create a God-system in their image

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VetforTrump 2 points ago +2 / -0

Especially since it says not to steal but to labor.

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HistoryInvestigator 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well that, and he and all of his followers were killed, committed suicide or backstabbed each other, so there's that too.