Originally Posted by
IMPress Polly
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.