VIRTUE AND EVIL; EMPATHY AND SELFISHNESS
The Fiction Of Socialism
For those who say that the Catholic Popes were always against "Socialism, as did a thing called The Vortex, let me, a Catholic, tell you why the popes were always against "Socialism, because they did not want to loose the patronage of the very wealthy nobility and merchant class, the class against which St. Francis of Assisi rebelled, including his own wealthy merchant father. Because they did not want a government entity to replace them or compete with them for the use of what they call charity, but which men with minds unhampered by a twisted mind/logic call, justice. Moreover, the hierarchies of the church did not want to see the lower classes become a power and dilute their own place in the sun. I call your attention to Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, in a parable a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in the chaptercalled The Grand Inquisitor
In reality the whole system of churches existing in communities is a society, consisting of parishes, bishoprics, and the entire body of their beliefs, their entire religion, and all religions exist on the contributions and charity of their citizens, their society, their members, and that is Socialism. It is what humans are, we are social animals.
Sorry, folks, but those who call a
societal sharing through taxes and charity, Socialism, ignore the base word Social,
as in society-in which the word society itself identifies
what we know, that God created us as a social species, not as stand alone
solitary beings. That is why humans and many other creatures, but not all,
cluster into communities, herds, tribes and cities. Socializing IS
Socialism! Isn't that what we are doing when we ALL chip in to pay
for: schools, police and firemen, libraries, parks, road building and
maintenance, the US army, air force, navy, marines, coast guard, national
guard, water purification, aid to industries (Corporate tax breaks and "Grants
totals about $3 trillion each year and more if you count the fabled No-Bid
Contracts so popular in the Bush administration and that figure alone is more
than the cost of a Public HealthCare system, which we should develop within
Medicare. We should have the same system as our Senators enjoy). No-Bid
contracts means a company is a "Uniquely Qualified Contractor of which in
America there is no such thing), is that what they mean by Socialism?
Ready, now? Good because I have news, The
Good News, from above, and listen closely cardinals, Bishops, priests and
"popes?" Jesus WAS a Socialist! No, you say? Then learn how
to read and write the archaic languages for yourselves (Archaic Aramaic,
Archaic Hebrew, Archaic Coptic, Archaic Latin, Archaic Greek and do your own
Biblical translations. In fact, every word that streamed forth from the mouths
of God, Jesus and the prophets was what the less educated call, Socialism.
The Criminalization Of
Avarice/Greed!
Ages ago all merchants who made their own goods were men and women with the
best work always at heart and mind. There are still a handful of people,
artists, actors, musicians, writers, architects, furniture makers,
seamstresses, farmers, livestock ranchers, etc, who made their wealth by the
sweat of their brows and the creativity of their minds, always hard at work
trying to do the best possible work, without cheating anyone. Now people make
and sell garbage of which our grandparents would be ashamed. The greatness of
their workmanship made their reputations, profits were secondary to artisans.
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