RE: The Left Hand of God or "is God a socialist"

At 05:29 AM 3/7/2006, Donald Perrett (E-mail) wrote:

>Pim
>
>I absolutely agree with you about Christmas
>commercialism. This is not the result of
>capitalism. Once educated on what capitalism
>is, one would understand that the concepts of
>ownership and the pooling together of capital is
>an absolute. The question isn't about gathering
>together of money and resources, it's to who do
>they gather. Under socialism it is gathered for
>a select few people who are chosen by a select
>few people who claim to represent the
>masses. Sounds like democracy as well, or any
>other political structure, doesn't it? But
>under capitalism, it is gathered to a select few
>people who are NOT chosen but who they
>themselves have worked hard and with great
>knowledge and wisdom (financially that is) have
>been able to rise to a level capable of
>increasing the wealth of themselves and others
>who ride their coattails. They are not selected
>by some fallacious political process, and who
>knows who, and who kisses whos you know
>what. It is about whether you have something
>which society wants (not necessarily needs
>though). How often do you vote? Are you really
>blind to think your vote will change the
>world? You may vote every November or maybe
>only once every four years, I vote every day. I
>do this by deciding how I spend my money and to
>whom it will go. If I don't like Chinese human
>rights, then I will not shop at Walmart. If I
>don't like Mideast oil, then I will buy my gas
>from a place that only uses NON-Mideast oil,
>such as BP. I choose to make a difference
>daily, how about you? Socialism or any other
>reliance upon a governmental system can only
>lead to the supression of human rights and
>freedoms. If you think that Christmas is too
>commercial then target the people supporting it
>and wasting their hard earned money on
>non-essential items. Educate others on how to
>grow their wealth and how to help others do the
>same. And when needed help those that cannot
>help others. When was the last time some poor
>Russian out in the middle of Siberia under the
>sole care of a socialist USSR help another human
>recover from a natural disaster on the other
>side of the planet. This country with its
>capitalism has done this countless times and
>will continue to do so, so long as it stays
>capitalist and Christian. Jubilee and socialism
>are not the same. One is under the direct
>leadership of God and the other killed God as
>soon as it took root nearly 500 years ago.
>
>Before going further, please let me explain one
>thing. I do not like to boast, just ask Dick
>Fischer. I do not like to explain how much I
>know in my area of expertise, sorry Glenn (you
>are great in your field though). But in this I
>will assure you, I spent my entire military
>career in Central America, SouthEast Asia and
>parts of the world I cannot even say I've
>been. I worked my entire time in Military
>Intelligence and speak Russian, Czeck, Tagalog,
>Spanish, Some Korean, Some Thai and Some
>Hindi. In all that time in so many countries
>and having spent so much time studying political
>science and history just to understand what
>socialism was, is and what THEIR plans are I can
>say without a doubt that the only thing in this
>world worse than a neo nazi right winger is a
>socialist. Give me my freedom and let me keep
>it. When I see someone in need I pray to God
>that I have something to give them and that I am
>not empty handed because the goverment has
>chosen to take everything from me in order to
>keep me and my fellow man oppressed. Libre De Oppresso.
>
>Don Perrett
>Special Forces Communications and Intelligence

@ God contrasted the difference between the Good
Samaritan mentality and the elitist Pharisaical
mentality for good reason. You have the
compassionate, charitable mentality of the Good
Samaritan. Without God in you, that is impossible.

Not everyone has "God in them". They are not
going to have his love for others in
them. So??? Does that then give self-focused,
spiritually immature religionists the right to
make them give? Does force people to
give? No. Only those in whom God, himself
lives, will be not only willing - but eager for
God to bring those who truly need help across their paths.

Poor Bonhoeffer had no Good Samaritan to help in
his time of need ... all the phoney religious
people deserted him. God knows who they were, too.

".. The Pauline question whether [circumcision]
is a condition of justification seems to me in
present-day terms to be whether religion is a
condition of salvation. Freedom from is also
freedom from religion. I often ask myself why a
"Christian instinct" often draws me more to the
religionless people than to the religious, by
which I don't in the least mean with any
evangelizing intention, but, I might almost say,
"in brotherhood." While I'm often reluctant to
mention God by name to religious people ­ because
that name somehow seems to me here not to ring
true, and I feel myself to be slightly dishonest
(it's particularly bad when others start to talk
in religious jargon; I then dry up almost
completely and feel awkward and uncomfortable) ­
to people with no religion I can on occasion
mention him by name quite calmly and as a matter
of course. ...How this religionless Christianity
looks, what form it takes, is something that I'm
thinking about a great deal. ...Some time, just
read Prov. 22.11, 12;4 there is something that
will bar the way to any escapism disguised as
piety." [He probably means Prov. 24.11f.: "Rescue
those who are being taken away to death; hold
back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If
you say, 'Behold, we did not know this.' does not
he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and
will he not requite man according to his
work?"] ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4/30/1944
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/bonhoeffer/letter-19440430.shtml

"We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try
to do so. The leadership of the free world was
thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little
hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World
War II, when the economic strength and power of
America was all that stood between the world and
the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said,
'The American people have a great genius for
splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of
America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.'"

"We are indeed, and we are today, the last best
hope of man on earth." ~ Ronald Reagan in his "Shining City" speech 1974.

Now there was a Good Samaritan mentality!

~ Janice
Received on Tue Mar 7 10:23:30 2006