[The_Rorschach]

Christ wasn't a proponant of socialist ideals. He relegated economics to their rightful status of "unimportant." Implying that material goods such as clothing, food and money should be shared wasn't an attempt at making a socialist society, it was instructing his disciples to put people before possessions. He did not thrash the money lenders in the temple because they were capitalists, he did it because they were profiting off of the misery and sin of His children who had come forth to redeem themselves.

Its funny how people take offense at things, personally I don't find your attempt to twist scripture offensive, but I do think its pretty sad and reaching. You can take individual verses and say "look! Communism!" but when they are viewed in context, they don't reflect socialistic tendancy at all. Anyone could turn that around, for instance, citing the parable of the Talents from Matthew 25 and showing it's a story about capital, investment, entrepreneurship, and the proper use of scarce economic resources. If taken at face value, it could be seen as promoting morality in the freedom to trade, invest, and profit; tenants which socialism totally denies.


- And no, thats not whatthe parable of the Talents is about.