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... Also; Ethnically pure socialism works. No one argues against this.

The word you are looking for is "commune", they lived in a religious commune.

So what is a State? The church is a state in a theocracy. You can have self-governing microstates within larger states ... like cult leaders with their compounds. There is the outside law, but there is also an internal law .. and people who violate them will be pushed out of the group or punished.

I've heard people say the book of Acts/early church isn't communistic because people had a choice. The couple who refused to sell everything was struck down, not because they refused to give everything over, but because they lied about it. Bullshit. It is a story to instil fear and obedience to the Church (State).

I do think all regions, in their very early cult-like stages, are very communistic. Over time, that has to dissolve for the religion to stabilize and grow. High growth religions do lose extreme control (look at 3rd/4th generation Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses). Will Scientology every become a causal religion with the cult stuff fading? Who knows. The Hare Krishna's have been around forever and they're certainly still a controlling and dominating cult.

I like a lot of the ideas from Christianity, but I left the born-again/evangelical stuff way back in the early 2000s. I was hard against the church for decades, but in recent years I've come to understand and appreciate how much of the Bible was essential to the creation of western civilization. The rejection of faith is the primary reason for our current downfall (read the book: _The Strange Death of Europe_).

There are a lot of bad things in the Bible as well (and even in the teaching of Christ) and I do think this is one of them. Do not turnover every aspect of yourself to a collective and lose your identity. What led me to leave the faith was in University: I talked to a lot of other Christians about what they believe. I didn't interrupt or try to defend/argue/apologize ... I just listened. When I realized just how diverse Christian's views on God and morality were, across such a large group of people, it really opened my eyes.

I do not agree with the Steve Deace's of the world that see demonic influences around every corner and tell people they should radicalize. But I understand why they're becoming hard-liners and support a return to revival due to how absolutely batshit insane the world has gotten.

I don't know what the right answer is, but it's important to note right now, in America (and even Canada/Europe) the Church is massively divided on the topics of COVID, Lockdowns and even homosexuality and gender ideology. You cannot have other gods before you. You cannot be unevenly yoked. The tenants of Christianity are being tested, and there is no longer a unifying base in Christian culture in the West.

Jesus also said explicitly buy a sword and use it defend yourself from persecution.

Turn the other cheek is meant to mean not to escalate a situation with those who intentionally provoke you, practical advice, if someone can get away with slapping you in public it's likely that they could get away with killing you if you do the same to them, which would have been true in rome or judea in those times, if you turn the other cheek it shows them your resilience to their taunts and if law does exist in your parts creates the opportunity for more witnesses or even intervention of law, a slap on the cheek is something you can invite and survive, potentially even benefit from, a maliciously violent and pervasive political and religious persecution requires a sword which Jesus advises.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-22-36/

Despite what faggot judaiesers might have told you growing up, excessive tolerance is a hateful sin, and the Lord wasn't pacifist who refused to use force to set wrongs right.

Further Jesus and his disciples literally lived in a commune, this was not advocacy for the economic forms of a nation this was a framework for a religious commune. note the root word of communism is? Commune. if you have a coherent monoculture in a small group communal living is highly efficient, especially if you have a mission or directive.

The Bible explicitly warns of judaisers who manipulate The Word and the faithful for the benefit of those who claim to be God's chosen but are not or are no longer or simply have difficulty letting old practices fall away.

It doesn't mean exactly what you think it means, because the context has been stripped.

But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

So the big point here is right cheek. That means someone backhanded you. You square your shoulders to them and say, "no, slap me like a man." A backhand is about the insult, not the hit.

If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.

You had legal rights to your cloak. It kept you alive and it was your bed. In 1st century Judea, a debtor could take your tunic and that was that. If he took your cloak, though, you had the right to get it back each night to sleep in. Jesus is saying, "make him look you in the eye, every night, and had that tunic back to you, night after night, and make you hand it back to him, morning after morning."

And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

This is about Roman soldiers. When Roman soldiers were on the march, if they saw someone on the side of the road, they could make them carry their pack for exactly one mile. Jesus is saying, if a solders makes you carry his pack for a mile, carry it for two. It's about human nature. He thinks he has a right to that first mile, but he'll start feeling like a shithead when you keep going and won't give his pack back.

It's about not letting people treat you like shit. You don't fight back directly (they killed people for that then) but by being a shitlord, and making them acknowledge that they are being shitty to you.

Except that's not communism, it's charity and socialism. OP is a giant dumb fag, as is all who agree with him or use this lie as a springboard. And yes, it's better than the kind of socialism the natsos love and pushed by hitler. Only it's not stolen by the state, making it moral. If you have issue with this, then you are a hypocrite if you worship hitler. And just like that we identified hypocritical idiots here.

Reading the comments is a sea of Jewish revisionism. So many here still controlled and programmed by Jews and so dumb they believe otherwise. Many controlled by Jews are some of the most verbose and long term accounts here. Sadly comical.

It's the comedy of the stupid and hypocritical. Lol. Insane.

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You can't "buy into" Christianity because you don't want to humble yourself before a holy God.

Turning the other cheek isn't about physical abuse; it's about an insult.

God set the example for humility, for being a suffering servant, through the incarnation of Jesus. Read Philippians chapter 2. Or don't... sounds like you've got it figured out already.

Also it's among your own people. Genetically you are somewhat all one. Totally fails when it's a foreign race with foreign values and goals.

If you change communism to socialism, your content will be more accurate in context.

This isn't communism. This is socialism. Communism requires the state and central planners. This is simply socialism where everyone uses what is available and nothing is forcibly taken at gunpoint. Making it moral. All of the natsos posting here just said Hitler and natsos are dumb pieces of immoral shit. Lol. They are so dumb.

Ethnically pure socialism works.

For small groups of people maybe. Zero examples of communism of any form working at a country scale.

The difference is, the state takes it at gunpoint, gets first dibs, and distributes to friends of the party first. One is moral. The other is not.

communism can exist on very small scales

It can also exist on a large scale. In any case it is demonic, terrible, and obviously unsuitable. What are you even saying here?