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WHICH ECONOMIC SYSTEM DOES BIBLE REALLY PROMOTE?
'Not too many historians that are all about America want to report that angle of it'
Paul Bremmer
If you want to create a centrally planned utopia, you can’t let Christianity get in your way. William Murray, chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, shared that unfortunate truth recently with host Frank Wright and the Christian audience of “Truths that Transform.”
“We have freedom of the individual that came through Christ, and our rights come from God,” Murray declared. “Well, this is a problem when you’re dealing with central planning and you need to control the people and you need to tell them not only what their needs are, but what they’re going to do. So the concept of God, the concept of having any authority higher than government, has to be eliminated, particularly Judeo-Christianity.”
Murray, who wrote about the history of utopianism in his most recent book, “Utopian Road to Hell: Enslaving America and the World with Central Planning,” said central planning is the key ingredient in a leftist utopia because it goes against God’s plan.
“God’s plan is free enterprise,” he proclaimed. “God’s plan: I work hard, I produce something and primitively I trade that to other people for what they need. Today we use money as an intermediate on that, but that was God’s plan. It’s in the Bible; it’s clear in the Old Testament. This was God’s plan for mankind, and it’s mentioned in the New Testament as well.”
Murray noted that, ironically, the Christian Pilgrims tried to establish a collectivist utopia upon settling in the New World in the early 1620s based on an erroneous understanding of the New Testament.
There was to be no private property; all citizens were to work as hard as they could and take only what they needed. However, this system produced starvation and death, so the Pilgrims switched to a free enterprise system with private ownership of property.
“Not too many historians that are all about America and how great America is want to report that angle of it,” Murray remarked.
He pointed out there are other societies people don’t typically think of as utopian, but were utopian nonetheless. Hitler’s Germany, for example, was a utopian state. Hitler and his National Socialists (Nazis) sought to mold a perfect society for the German people, and to reach their goal they resorted to genocide.
Likewise, the fascism of Mussolini’s Italy was another form of utopianism. The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta was a utopian society that discouraged individuality and stressed obedience to the rulers of the state. As Murray wrote in “Utopian Road to Hell,” Sparta eventually failed because it did not give its citizens the freedom to adapt to changing times.
Murray said it does no good to confront today’s young people with evidence of the failures of past utopian societies because millennials are in a state of “magic thought.” He even likened them to people who believe nobody ever walked on the moon.
“[They believe] there was a giant conspiracy, that somehow some group, some organization, some unknown behind-the-scenes thing has managed to force socialism or collectivism, or whatever you want to call it, to fail,” Murray said.
He said those who support Bernie Sanders seem to hold onto the enduring belief that nobody has ever done communism or socialism right, and if only it were done the right way, it would produce a utopia. This was what Pol Pot believed, Murray noted. The Cambodian dictator thought other collectivist utopians had failed because they kept their educated, free-thinking residents around.
“So he murdered everybody with a college education, he murdered everybody that wore glasses, everybody that spoke a foreign language, anybody that had ever been a police officer, anybody that had ever been an army officer,” Murray recounted. “He murdered a third of the population, thinking that if he reduced it to the core proletariat they could build this marvelous society.”
But Pol Pot killed off all the productive people, so his utopian Cambodia was doomed. It’s crucial for a society to have wealth producers, Murray insisted.
“What young folks don’t understand is the accumulation of wealth is extremely important, because innovation comes from the accumulation of wealth,” he said.
He cited the development of the cell phone as an example. The first cell phones were as big as bricks and nothing more than telephones, he recalled. But because of capitalism, cell phones evolved.
“People [bought] it because they wanted it and needed it, because they saw the productivity advantages of it, and that gave the people that manufactured that phone money so they could innovate and produce more phones, cheaper phones, smaller phones until we have what we have today,” Murray said.
Joseph Farah, WND co-founder and editor, took up the topic only a few weeks earlier, writing, “No, Jesus was not a socialist.”
“If all you know about Jesus is what you’ve heard, I can understand why you might think he was a socialist. After all, He healed the sick and fed the hungry and commanded His followers to do likewise, right?
“That’s what socialists do, isn’t it?” he wrote.
“Actually, no.”
He said, “Historically socialists ration government-run health care services and starve their people. … Note that Jesus was not a proponent of ‘the Great Society’ or ‘the War on Poverty.’ He exhorted individuals to heal the sick, feed the hungry and help the poor. But he never suggested in any way, shape or form that this was the proper role of government. This was the role of the church – the duty of the individual believer.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/which-economic-system-does-bible-really-promote/#XFhL48mZ6wTJaVch.99My comments: The ESSENCE of Christianity is Individual Responsibility before God--The same Responsibility that the Socialists want to take away.
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