Aristotle discussed some ideas central capitalism. Why don’t we start a new cult around him and his ideas? We could eventually use the cult to exploit vulnerable individuals, brainwash innocent people, commit human rights violations, incite people into committing hate crimes, start wars and promote chaos and suffering in general.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Jesus also teached to devote live to a fictional character and to respect judaism traditions. And in the apostols carts there're homophobic rants.
That's not socialist in my book.
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Submission to a single all-powerful ruler seems like textbook authoritarianism
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If anything socialism is Christianism since that's what Jesus taught, not socialism.
Anyway Pope Leo XIII explained it better in the Rerum novarum (distributism not socialism), maybe an Anarchist (on Earth) because there is no ruler but Him, no government but God's.
Peace and love are not in man's nature, regardless if you are a Christian or a Socialist, or both. "My god will fuck you up if I don't get my money!". That is the twist on capitalism.
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's
That's pro dictatorship in perpetuity, aka fascism.
Jesus wants people to help each other voluntarily and not by the power of the state.
There are evangelical thought leaders that preach the opposite. They say liberals are wrong about all of that.
And people believe up is down.