The Next Wave of Socialists Will Arise from Churches - Redux

Back in December 2004 I titled a post The Next Wave of Socialists Will Arise from Churches, in response to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Pushing poverty into ‘moral-values’ debate - Some religious leaders trying to broaden discussion beyond abortion and marriage.

I did not want to be right, but when Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former false witness for twenty years, stands up and praises socialism and Marxism, I am afraid I was and am.

Via Billy Beck, via the New Paltz Journal.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/02 at 07:10 PM

  1. From the SF Chronicle article:

    [Liberal religious activists] cite U.S. Census Bureau data showing that 8 in 10 Americans saw their share of the total U.S. income shrink between 1980 and 2001. Real gains were made only by the richest 5 percent of American citizens, whose share of total U.S. incomes rose 42 percent during that period. —my emphasis

    If only this quirk of regarding the production of each American as the rightful property of any and all were peculiar to liberal religious activists.  Unfortunately, it’s the vast, vast majority in this country who accept and assume that the wealth of individuals is justifiably aggregated—conceptually, and by force, actually—into the wealth of the nation, and that voicing one’s own whims about its dispersal is appropriate.

    Exemplifying the minority view would be the one in whose banner these religious activists wrap their advocacy.  Leastwise, I don’t believe he ever granted permission for his followers to outright wrest from hapless others the worldly goods with which to feed, cloth and shelter “the least of these” they serve.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  11/04  at  10:42 AM

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