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 Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:12 am
So, based on what you interpret from the Bible, what system of government do you think God would want people to use?
I've read a few clips that make it seem as if Jesus was all for the sharing of wealth, hence communism.
What about the rest of you?
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:48 pm
Communism works okay with smaller societies, but today, countries and nations are just too big. I would guess democracy, but I may be biased. sweatdrop But I also don't know too much about systems of government, so I can't really answer fully.
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:43 pm
I do believe that, in the bible, a sort of communistic commune of believers where the church is the center of the community. However, I believe that we, as Christians, have lost our privilege of getting to run countries and we need to be humble and submit to secular authorities until we learn to rule a country with screwing it up.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:21 am
I beleive that the Bible does not have a preference of government systems and that God will not judge based on the type of government you are a part of, but i think that based on the rules the Bible set up it is more for a theocracy, democracy, or republic...
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:27 pm
Blue-ROMan I beleive that the Bible does not have a preference of government systems and that God will not judge based on the type of government you are a part of, but i think that based on the rules the Bible set up it is more for a theocracy, democracy, or republic... Well theocracy sure, but what parts of the Bible make you think of democracy and a republic?
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:57 pm
Deo_Machina Blue-ROMan I beleive that the Bible does not have a preference of government systems and that God will not judge based on the type of government you are a part of, but i think that based on the rules the Bible set up it is more for a theocracy, democracy, or republic... Well theocracy sure, but what parts of the Bible make you think of democracy and a republic? i am not really sure, but i think somthing along the lines of God has given people the choice to follow him or not (free will), and democracies/republics are more about the freedom of the people to choose their own lives, in other govt forms (ie communism, dictatorship, monarchy) choice is not up to the people but it is up to the govt., and many of the non free types of govt. senselessly kill their own people, which is somethiing i think that God does not want.
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:19 am
Blue-ROMan Deo_Machina Blue-ROMan I beleive that the Bible does not have a preference of government systems and that God will not judge based on the type of government you are a part of, but i think that based on the rules the Bible set up it is more for a theocracy, democracy, or republic... Well theocracy sure, but what parts of the Bible make you think of democracy and a republic? i am not really sure, but i think somthing along the lines of God has given people the choice to follow him or not (free will), and democracies/republics are more about the freedom of the people to choose their own lives, in other govt forms (ie communism, dictatorship, monarchy) choice is not up to the people but it is up to the govt., and many of the non free types of govt. senselessly kill their own people, which is somethiing i think that God does not want. Just a FYI: The original communisim (By Marx and Engles) has no state, the people govern themselves. (It was Stalin that really used it as a means of opression)
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:37 pm
Karl Marx's theory would never function on a large scale. Inevitably,someone would tire of being on the exact same level as everyone else and find away to cheat the system,gain more money and more power,and then others would follow,and there'd be power struggles,and it would regress into a dictatorship.
Or worse,somebody utterly warps the theory and uses it as a dictatorship. Even though it's "not." Stalin,for example.
I'd say democracy.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:42 pm
*Just read "The Principles Of Communism" and "The Communist Manifesto"*
Actually, I believe communism is quite feasible. However, it would only work in two situations:
1. A small, secluded society.
2. If the entire world came together as a single World Nation, that then became communist.
A lot of people seem to think of communism as Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia was not communist. Lenin's ultimate goal was communism, but he died before he could apply it. And Stalin was just a d**k. (If that was too offensive, please tell me).
A state of communism actually implies a perfect democracy or total anarchy.
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