05-11-2011, 06:20 AM
kj wrote:
[quote=August West]
[quote=Oxford English Dictionary]
Socialism, noun
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
Seems pro socialist to me.
Very different. Christianity is not a political and economic theory.
This is true in the case of Western modernity, but in fact many early Christians considered their faith to be the core of both their political and economic lives. Not disagreeing with your statement in the present context, but it has not always been so. In modern times, the remnants of these traditions exist in voluntary lay religious communities (Sant'Egidio, for example), convents and monasteries, etc. Members exist alongside modernity, but govern themselves by different standards.