Heidegger

> Tudor Georgescu wrote:
>
>>> According to these folks:
>>> http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/cath.htm
>>>
>>> the following would be analogous:
>>
>> Now, I don’t know which is the true Church (if any cult could possibly
>> be called the true Church). But I know that it has to be communistic:
>> Acts 2:44 says that property over money, land and economic goods has
>> to be collective, instead of private. Acts chapter 5 turns this
>> requirement into a terrible obligation: those who are not willing to
>> participate in the communist system are sinning against the Holy
>> Spirit, and they are thus punished to the eternal damnation. Same
>> chapter says that the Law of God has absolute priority of the laws of
>> men. Therefore, parliaments are not allowed to guarantee private
>> property, because that would be ungodly, Satanic, part and parcel of
>> the rule of the Antichrist. The biblical word for capital is Mammon,
>> therefore the capitalism is the regime of Mammon.
>>
>> The Christian way is thus communism and Jesus Christ is Our beloved
>> Savior and Leader. Which makes the Pope a liar, because he denied that
>> socialism (he implied: communism, also) would be the solution to the
>> problems of the humankind.

Read a book or two first, please:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_c…

Christian communists respond to this by citing Acts 5:1-10, which they
hold to be additional evidence that the Apostles and early Christians
did not view communism as something optional:

1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a
possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy
to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the
Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it
remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in
thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou
hast not lied unto men, but unto God. 5 And Ananias hearing these words
fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that
heard these things. 6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried
him out, and buried him. 7 And it was about the space of three hours
after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. 8 And Peter
answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she
said, Yea, for so much. 9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye
have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet
of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry
thee out. 10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up
the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying
her forth, buried her by her husband. (King James Version)

Christian communists hold that this passage explicitly shows how
communism - that is, the sharing of all wealth - was considered so
central to early Christianity that Ananias and Sapphira were struck dead
by God for keeping part of their wealth for themselves. Some Christian
communists go further and use these verses as an endorsement of the view
that society should be communistic even against the will of some of its
members; and that refusing to share one’s wealth can be regarded as a
crime and punished as such.

On the other hand, some anti-communist Christians - such as W. Cleon
Skousen, David Chilton, Dr. Gary North, Rev. R. J. Rushdoony - argue
that Peter was not disturbed because Ananias and Sapphira were not
faithfully practicing communism or because they failed to share all
their wealth, but because they had lied to God (verses 3 and 4) and
thereby “tempt[ed] the Spirit of the Lord” (verse 9). They would also
note that Peter made it clear that the possession and money belonged to
Annanias and Sapphira to do with as they wished, and so supported the
notion of private property. Thus, anti-communist Christians do not see
this event as one supporting the practice of compulsory communism, but
as a warning against lying to God or believing that one can deceive him.

Posted on Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 1:00 am
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