[KevinTheOmnivore]

I still hold that C.S. Lewis put it best, when addressing what a "Christian" society might look like:

"If there were such a society in existence and you or I visited it, I think we should come away with a curious impression. We should feel that its economic life was very socialistic and, in that sense, 'advanced', but that its family life and its code of manners were rather old fashioned-- perhaps even ceremonious and aristocratic. Each of us would like some bits of it, but I am afraid very few of us would like the whole thing."

Christ most certainly was egalitarian, and throughout much of the Bible, you see ones willingness to depart with their riches as a common theme in the Bible, with Job as one example, and the scripture from Matthew that Jeanette cited.

This doesn't mean Christ would be a Leftist, which is what I fear many of you on the "Right" feel is being insinuated. This doesn't take a genius. Look at any of the theocratic governments throughout history, as well as in the present. Do they differ that much from a system that is highly centralized?? How "free" was the market in Afghanistan? What did the Taliban (though hypocritical they were) do to the farms that grew the poppi for Heroin?? Why did they do this???