Recently, I've been hearing a lot of political discussion from the
Socialist Left, postulating that, because they "care" more for the "suffering
groups" in our society, and, they want to increase benefits for those
groups, they are more in tune with "what Jesus would do" than are
the cruel and indifferent Republicans and Christians.
I don't want to include most Democrats in the above definition of
the Liberal far left. I'm speaking directly about the members of the
Democratic party who have Socialist and Communist sympathies...even
though most won't openly state their preferences.
Christianity does expect its members to earn their way into Heaven
by performing good deeds and helping the less fortunate among us.
In Christianity, and many other Religions, "doing it yourself" is the proper
way to do charity.
Even Religions who "tithe" from their members don't give the collections
to the government. The Church spends the money the way the Church
sees fit, and if the member doesn't agree, he or she can always quit the
Church.
In other words, Jesus doesn't force his followers to turn over their money
to the government. You don't work your way into heaven by paying
taxes and allowing politicians to build their political power base by
spending your money.
Even mainstream politicians, those who are not far-right or far-left,
succeed by taking money from everyone and passing it out to favored
constituencies. That's why they always need more money...to keep
the gravy train rolling for their benefactors and themselves. That may
be a topic for another day.
Trust me, Jesus has nothing to do with why they want more money.
But the Socialists and the Communists are special cases. For generations
and generations, all over the world, from Communist Russia and China, to
Nazi Germany, to Venezuela, they have been preaching they will help the
poor, the disenfranchised, and the suffering; yet all they have ever delivered
is worse suffering, starvation, murders, inhumanity, and wars.
But, if you look around today, here they are. Still teaching in our universities.
Still mucking up our politics. Still telling lies. Still pretending to care. Still
comparing themselves to Jesus.
They will never learn, so I guess it's up to the rest of us to learn to identify
them and learn to identify bullshit when we hear it.
