{"id":2452331,"date":"2019-12-17T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/jesus-was-a-socialist\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:12:15","slug":"jesus-was-a-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/jesus-was-a-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus was a Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of course, Glenn Beaton, Jesus Christ is not our mom (\u201cHere\u2019s what I know, Jesus Christ is not our mom,\u201d<\/a> commentary, Dec. 14, aspentimes.com). Somebody\u2019s Lord and Savior was a man, just like every significant figure in the Bible except Mary and the only reason she\u2019s included in the Christian hierarchy is she gave birth to a son. That\u2019s all women are good for, right, Glenn?<\/p>\n

Christianity, like all the major religions and, perhaps until recently, the entire world is male dominated. That\u2019s the only kinda world you\u2019d be comfortable in. You think with your gonads.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure this will vex you, Glenn, but Christ was a socialist. He proved that at the seaside when He fed the multitude with two fish and five loaves of bread (Matthew 14:13-21). If Christ had been a capitalist, He\u2019d have eaten the seafood and gluten himself.<\/p>\n

Christ declared, \u201cWhosoever serves the least of thy brethren also serves me\u201d (Matthew 25:40). A capitalist would say let the least of thy brethren pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Even in the incident in the temple you refer to where Christ overturned the tables of the moneychangers, He was saying all form of making money wasn\u2019t cool in the house of God, not exactly a capitalistic sentiment.<\/p>\n

It seems to be important to you Christ not be portrayed as a sissy. I don\u2019t care if He was a (edited out), Christ was a great man, so great His apostles decided He must be divine or holy, a leader, an inspiration, and the founder of a religion, if it wasn\u2019t for all the hypocrites, would be the noblest faith in the world.<\/p>\n

Your equating pacifist with weakling is revealing of your mind set. I suppose Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were weaklings. Perhaps you\u2019d prefer to align yourself with the Rastafarians who believe Haile Selassie was the Lion of Judah. Selassie was a warrior. Christ never made war on anybody.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also appropriate to capitalize the \u201cH\u201d in He or Him when referring to Christ or God. Even I know that, and I\u2019m an atheist.<\/p>\n

Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n

Carbondale<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, Glenn Beaton, Jesus Christ is not our mom (\u201cHere\u2019s what I know, Jesus Christ is not our mom,\u201d commentary, Dec. 14, aspentimes.com). Somebody\u2019s Lord and Savior was a man, just like every significant figure in the Bible except Mary and the only reason she\u2019s included in the Christian hierarchy is she gave birth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 01:43:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452354,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452331\/revisions\/2452354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}