I have heard many politicians talk over the years about this subject. It was also mentioned last week at a conference. Has anyone any comments on the subject.
2007-11-16 22:46:43 · 12 answers · asked by soñador 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
One could interpret 'socialism' through the life and thoughts of Jesus Christ! But Jesus may not be the first to have postulated some doctrines in that direction! Jesus had leadership traits in him, and a leader's achievements to his credit: but it may not be right to call him a socialist leader!
2007-11-16 22:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No he could not possibly have been. Your question is anachronistic. Socialism was a product of the 18th and 19th centuries, no-one had heard of it before that. Philosophically, socialism is based on secular humanism, so you would even have a hard time trying to show that socialism was a form of Christianity, but I am sure some academic must have tried that. Anyone who tries that should visit Siberia where the roads are partly made up from the bones of the Russian Christians who were sent there as slave labourers by the soviets from the 1920s to the 1980s.
2007-11-17 07:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm a socialist no.
However Jesus would be a world King so a monarchy would be closer since he is a King.
Now his kingdom is actually called theocracy, or God governed type of government. In the book of or Corinthians, Jesus gives the kingdom (restored humanity) back to God his father. so that all (intelligent) things (angels, humans and other creatures are in heaven) are subject to God Almighty including Jesus.
so with that in mind, Jesus is a king as he rules a Theocratic Government which is ruled by God Almighty. thus also disproving there is a trinity.
2007-11-17 06:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by fire 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is an example of people making God over into their own image.
One of the apostles wrote: If someone is not going to work, then neither should they eat.
Jesus was not a social reformer for all mankind. He taught what his followers should do in relation to later when they had received the Holy Spirit.
Socialism cost the lives of over 100 million people in the last century. Do they attribute that to Jesus also?
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2007-11-17 08:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think people had to be socialists to survive for many thousands of years. How else would we? So, no- I don't think Jesus was the first socialist. I think we were socialist way before his lifetime.
2007-11-17 06:59:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No but there is little dispute the early Christians were socialists.
"All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need." - Acts 2:45-46
2007-11-17 07:38:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. He wasn't the 'first' socialist. Most Jewish folk have been Socialist long before Jesus' arrival, and Confucius and others in China were Socialist as well.
2007-11-17 06:50:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nah . . . but was he a socialist? Maybe, but Christianity has always taught servility and acceptance to the social order, rather than revolt against it.
2007-11-17 06:52:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus called for each of us individually to take care of the needy. He never said anything about government taxing some members of society and spending those tax dollars (after the waste, graft and corruption) on programs to benefit other members of society.
Any socialist I ever heard or read called for government to do the extreme tax thing, they don't trust people to do it.
2007-11-17 06:56:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He may have been the world's first socialite.
2007-11-17 07:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by James Bond 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋