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    The Pics Thread

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words. People post pictures online all the time. I figured we might as well have a central place to post our thoughts...on anything...political or not.

    I'll start us off with a few images I've collected online.

    These first two are self-explanatory.

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    Now let's imagine for a moment that Jesus' followers were Tea Party evangelists:

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    Last edited by IMPress Polly; 08-19-2012 at 09:22 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    They say a picture is worth a thousand words. People post pictures online all the time. I figured we might as well have a central place to post our thoughts...on anything...political or not.

    I'll start us off with a few images I've collected online.

    These first two are self-explanatory.

    Attachment 327

    Attachment 328

    Now let's imagine for a moment that Jesus' followers were Tea Party evangelists:

    Attachment 329
    Regarding the last pic. If Jesus feeds everyone it is charity. Socialism is when the government slams its jack-boot on my neck to take my money to feed others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Regarding the last pic. If Jesus feeds everyone it is charity. Socialism is when the government slams its jack-boot on my neck to take my money to feed others.
    Polly is a little confused about the whole socialism thingy...

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    That is OK. It is cute.

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    Concerning Jesus, I think you're all a little confused. Christ and his earliest followers, in terms of their lifestyles, can be described as nothing but out and out communists. (Lifestyle communists, not political communists.) The Bible itself records that they lived by sharing their possessions in common. I'm not saying that I'm a Christian or anything or that I think the primitive type of organization the early Christians applied is a good one for modern-day people. I'm just saying that it's ridiculous for people to use Christ as some sort of mouthpiece for the capitalist system, as though he were a business tycoon of some sort.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Concerning Jesus, I think you're all a little confused. Christ and his earliest followers, in terms of their lifestyles, can be described as nothing but out and out communists. (Lifestyle communists, not political communists.) The Bible itself records that they lived by sharing their possessions in common. I'm not saying that I'm a Christian or anything or that I think the primitive type of organization the early Christians applied is a good one for modern-day people. I'm just saying that it's ridiculous for people to use Christ as some sort of mouthpiece for the capitalist system, as though he were a business tycoon of some sort.
    How much of the taxpayer's money did Jesus use to heal the sick and feed the hungry?

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Concerning Jesus, I think you're all a little confused. Christ and his earliest followers, in terms of their lifestyles, can be described as nothing but out and out communists. (Lifestyle communists, not political communists.) The Bible itself records that they lived by sharing their possessions in common. I'm not saying that I'm a Christian or anything or that I think the primitive type of organization the early Christians applied is a good one for modern-day people. I'm just saying that it's ridiculous for people to use Christ as some sort of mouthpiece for the capitalist system, as though he were a business tycoon of some sort.
    With all due respect, Jesus and his followers willingly lived the way they lived. They did not create a government, and then use the power of the government to force people to live in any certain way. That is the entire point of what conservatives believe. Why can't liberals get that point? If their ideas are so good why must government mandate them?

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    Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis: Chapter 29 Christianity and Socialism: 6 Christian Socialism, distinguishes thus: "We often find the Apostolic Fathers and the Fathers of the Church, exhorting their followers to return to the communism of the first congregation, but this is always a communism of consumption. They never recommend the socialistic organization of production."

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