do ya still have that post about christianity and communism(?) I tried to look 4 it, but i cant find it + i didnt get to read it, my dumbass decided to copy the link D;
Ahh, no, I don't! I don't know why I deleted it...I guess I just assumed nobody would want to look at it.
I think my post was Denys Turner's justification of materialism and Christianity in his article "Can a Christian Be a Marxist."
Here it is: "We do believe that God has acted upon and within history, and most of us believe, though perhaps not quite all, that God is a being who exists outside of history. But for every action which we believe is an action of God within history we believe that there is a sufficient explanation of a purely historical and material form, We do not say this out of a desire simply to be curious and interesting and two-dimensional about history in preference to the dullness of everyone else's boring one-dimensionality. We say this simply because we do believe it to be true that there is a God and that he has acted upon history; and we also believe that the God could not have acted so as to change the course of history otherwise than in a way that is explicable entirely in terms of that history. We are, therefore, overdeterminists. At any rate, if there are some Christians who dissent from this point of view, I for my part follow the central tradition in the Catholic Church on this, represented in the theology of Aquinas. And as for the materialist conception of history itself, if not all Christians have accepted it as explaining their own historical agency, they have, to my mind, been thoroughly inconsistent in this: if they do not accept it, it appears the God they believe in does. If not all Christians are Marxists, certainly their own God is."
If you want to read more about communism and Christianity, and these are people I'm a bit more educated on, and who are further left so I really do prefer them, I recommend the works of Camilo Torres and Hewlett Johnson. I think the Complete Works of Camilo Torres is on Internet Archive and some of Hewlett Johnson's writings are on marxists.org!
Furthermore, I'd like to say that in my opinion, communism is the one ideology that lines up with Biblical teachings and with the love of Christ.
Acts 2:44-45: And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Mathew 6:24: No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY!!!!!
I'd also like to mention that The Didache, one of the earliest Christian manuals, says, "Do not turn away from the needy; rather, share everything with your brother, and do not say: 'It is private property."
"well *I* think death to america/israel is bad because !! It means!!! you do not oppose genocide!!" Netanyahu does not want you bru move onnnđđđ
white people really cant give a shit abt anyone but themselves unless held at gunpoint or smth huh?
âwhat about the poor little white kids just trying to have fun?â what about the poor little kids of color made to feel unsafe and unwelcome in a space that was supposed to be fun?
âwhy canât poc just make their own redesigns and we can keep these onesâ why cant you realize that your actions have consequences and that you should maybe try to not enforce racist stereotypes??
like ofc its ideal to have VARIETY among both villains AND protagonists, its when your characters look like this
that the issue arises
scratch âcanâ, white people are encouraged to reblog