Jesus the Commie
Communists do not want people trusting in God for their daily bread, but want them to look to the state. I chat with people on the Internet, via discussion forums and Twitter. I see that some people actually believe that Jesus was a proto-communist, and we ought embrace communist causes as a matter of Christian principle. On that view, being your brother's keeper and being charitable to the poor require that you endorse government schemes to take wealth from one place and bestow it in another. I am not sure why they think Jesus would endorse a political philosophy that has done more to suppress his gospel than any other. Inevitably, centralized planning and distribution lead to the self-glorification of the apparatchiks. God is pushed aside as a superstition, the "opiate of the masses," for the state must be the biggest thing in sight and the most important. Communists do not want people trusting in God for their daily bread, but want them to look to the state. T