Christians supporting Trump and other Right-wing politicians concerning
Some people, even seasoned journalists, seem to believe that Mr. Trump dozed off during jury selection. Anybody who has taught Junior High classes, as I have, will tell you that his apparent snoozing was an adolescent attempt to telegraph boredom.
Mr. Trump, the petulant adolescent, was simply disrespecting the court, and by extension, the justice system.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, my main concern is that many self-professed Christians are supporting Mr. Trump and other Right-wing politicians.
I’ve been a Christian since 1942, when I was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. To my mind, Christianity fits much more neatly with Socialism.
“Godly Communism” is not a contradiction. A close, or even cursory, reading of Acts of the Apostles will undermine that assumption.
I’ve been a Christian since 1942, when I was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. To my mind, Christianity fits much more neatly with Socialism.
When the Russia revolution was successfully accomplished, Western nations began referring to “Godless Communism,” creating a false understanding ofthe political and social renewal. Since the revolution tried to educate and raise the living standards of the underclass of serfs, the church opposed this change.
This was because educated people are, in theory, more difficult to subjugate. The church, teaching that people should blindly follow the boss’s orders, no matter how unreasonable and even abusive, invited the opposition of socialists everywhere.
The dignity of labour was a very Christian concept, but threatened the church’s convenient relationship with capitalism.
Still today, this unreasoning link between socialism and Christianity persists. It is not helpful, either to socialism or to Christianity. For many Christians, the real problem of Acts of the Apostles is this depiction of an early group of Jesus’ disciples teaching, and exemplifying, a socialist communal way of life.
In my humble opinion anyone professing Christian principles would find a more congenial home in socialism than in conservatism.
I certainly sense no danger to my Christian faith in the benign modern socialist movement.
. . . and may God have mercy on us all! Ed Healy Marystown