WAS JESUS A SOCIALIST??

Well, was He a Socialist? What with all the  "99-bots" trashing downtown Portland, aided and abetted by Portland's spineless and thankfully one-term "Mayor" Sam Adams, the statement that "Jesus was a Socialist" has been bandied about by several of those morons as well as by even larger morons such as Joy Behar and Michael Moore.  I ran across an interesting op-ed, which I reprint with permission:


“Not even close. Jesus feeding the masses would be charity. The situation would be socialism only if Jesus were a government bureaucrat who decided who could fish and where, then take the fisherman’s catch and distribute it as the bureaucrat sees fit. And once the socialistic bureaucrat is in control he can change his rules as he sees fit, because in socialism the government always knows better than the individual.


Socialism is a form of government ownership and administration that advocates no private property. Production is owned and controlled by the state. In Marxist theory socialism is the transitional bridge between capitalism and communism. Advocates of socialism and communism are taking advantage of current economic problems by telling you their way is better, when history proves them wrong.


When was the last time you saw a government program (especially one from the ‘compassionate democrats’) that teaches people the fundamentals of how to make money or how to manage it so that it grows for them? You don’t see that, because once people buy into that way of thinking most of them would no longer need the democrat party, which largely promotes dependence on the government, and what you should get from the government instead of self-reliance.
Historically, socialistic and communistic governments have discouraged or crushed religion and tried to replace religion with government. In California we are already experiencing the results of a socialist-leaning, big government philosophy and it is devastating. This state’s massive economy is on the verge of collapse because 40+ years ago its citizens began to let this idiotiic way of thinking creep into their schools, communities, and state government."
-Ann-Marie Murrell