Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist Jesus

Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist Jesus Church And State: President Obama has taken a very powerful name in vain in defense of his class warfare economic policies. In fact, Obama encourages …More
Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist Jesus
Church And State:
President Obama has taken a very powerful name in vain in defense of his class warfare economic policies. In fact, Obama encourages a sin Jesus Christ repeatedly admonished: envy.
Attending the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama declared that raising tax rates on higher incomes "coincides with Jesus' teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'"
It is disgraceful enough for a president to use a religious event to push an economic agenda that has already insured his place in history as the food stamp president.
But Obama began his remarks by claiming there was nothing political in what he would be saying.
He was there, he said, so that he and the attendees could "come together as brothers and sisters and seek God's face together."
This from a president who has conspicuously neglected attending religious services during his time in office — until recently, that is, with his …More
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On the part of the rich man, it calls for great generosity, willing sacrifice and diligent effort. Each man must examine his conscience, which sounds a new call in our present times. Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so that public authorities may expand their efforts in the work of development? Is …More
On the part of the rich man, it calls for great generosity, willing sacrifice and diligent effort. Each man must examine his conscience, which sounds a new call in our present times. Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so that public authorities may expand their efforts in the work of development? Is he prepared to pay more for imported goods, so that the foreign producer may make a fairer profit? Is he prepared to emigrate from his homeland if necessary and if he is young, in order to help the emerging nations?

To Government Authorities
84. Government leaders, your task is to draw your communities into closer ties of solidarity with all men, and to convince them that they must accept the necessary taxes on their luxuries and their wasteful expenditures in order to promote the development of nations and the preservation of peace. - Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, 1967
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Comments:
Jesus would not tax anyone.
Jesus would ask the rich to give freely, of their own heart, for the purpose of glorifying God.”
These anti-Christian hypocrites on the left never miss an opportunity to misrepresent the teachings of Christ. Money given to the government at the point of a gun is not Charity - it is theft.
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Jesus would not tax anyone.

Jesus would ask the rich to give freely, of their own heart, for the purpose of glorifying God.”

These anti-Christian hypocrites on the left never miss an opportunity to misrepresent the teachings of Christ. Money given to the government at the point of a gun is not Charity - it is theft.
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The views of St. John Chrysostom on the matter are far more likely to reflect Our Lord's attitude than those held by any American politician:

“Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person’s gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emperor to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again.

Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold from the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people’s hearts first—and then they will joyfully share their wealth.”

-– St. John Chrysostom on the poor from On Living Simply XLIII
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What he overlooks in such a broad pronouncement is:

1. Such coercive "taking" is implemented by imperfect persons in positions of power in government;

2. Individuals in the society, motivated by the teachings of Jesus, might do far more good with individual charity, if left free to do so;

3. When coercively taken from some and "redistributed" to others, the gratitude (if any) for such redistributed gifts is directed to government, not God, or to whichever tyrant chooses such a method as a vote-getting mechanism;

4. Free will of individuals is a central teaching in most Christian sects, which introduces a question about coerced "charity" if it travels under the banner of Christianity.

Just some questions which might bear discussion, since the President has introduced the topic.