"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
My paraphrase of that statement is "Steal from the worker, and give to those lazy."
Robin Hood made socialism famous by robbing the rich to give to the poor. We all felt good when Robin stole and "redistributed the income"! Poverty is an emotional issue. Socialism sees poverty as the fault of capitalism, industrial automation, the family unit, men, land owners and even the church! However, modern history has shown that poverty is the product of those with little motivation: work ethic if you prefer, and government tampering, also called socialism. Yes, the United States is on the road to socialism moving at tremendous speeds and decaying at the same rate. Specifically, American socialism has caused our current economic situation.
Case in point: The "Bush" recession started long before Bush was ever president. Cause to effect does not happen overnight. It lags. It takes time for changes to improve or disintegrate. The "Bush" recession was caused by socialist initiatives, mainly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "Fannie" is the "Federal National Mortgage Association" created as part of the "New Deal" of Progressive Democrat Franklin Roosevelt.
The federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stepped up home ownership for low and middle income people by various government regulations, making it easy for those unqualified to become qualified for a mortgage.
"Freddie Mac" is Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), and was created in 1970 and buys mortgages on the secondary market, pools them, and sells them as a mortgage-backed security to investors on the open market (Wikipedia). In 2008 Freddie and Fannie were put under goverment regulation by Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director James B. Lockhart III. This was the greatest government intervention into private enterprise ever.
Progressives are to blame for both Fannie and Freddie. Roosevelt was responsible for one and Richard Nixon the other! Under George W. Bush, his "compassionate conservatism" aided and abetted by Democrats caused the drastic Lockhart change. Then they put the wolves in the hen house: Democrats Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd was responsible for the oversight of those newly regulated initiatives. Under their guardianship havoc peaked. People everywhere were "under water"! They had homes whose value was less than what they owed. Many lost their homes and with all those vacant homes on the market, home starts reached an all-time low!
Thus, the "Bush" recession was a socialist recession. Progressives from both political parties "caused" the recession, but the ghost of Karl Marx and socialism is the "root cause". Socialism caused our capitalistic economy to fail all the while the progressives were blaming capitalism. Yes, ungodly socialism is a main contributor to poverty. The poor who're looking for socialism to give them a "hand up" are getting a "butt kick down"!
"This is supposed to be a Christian blog!" you say. It is! Firstly, Marxism is atheistic. It sees religion has an obstruction to progress. In fact socialism as exists since Marx's time, although in western countries, it temporarily tolerates Christianity, has a goal to annihilate religion, specifically Christianity! Hence, socialism is the enemy of Christianity and works against God! With that said, no Christian, knowledgeable anyhow, should embrace socialism.
Jesus believed in helping the poor. That's encouraged many times. But helping is charity; not law! Jesus was pragmatic:
Matthew 26:11 "The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me."
Jesus knew that there would always be poverty. Being God and omnipotent (all-powerful), he could have redistributed the income right there. He could have practiced what the progressives call "social justice" He could have said "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." He didn't say that. Marx did! Jesus said "The poor you will always have with you." Jesus never intended to create utopia here on earth. We had that in the Garden of Eden. It was Paradise!
Why do we have poverty anyhow? It's Adam's fault! He listened to Eve who was deceived and sinned:
Genesis 3:17" To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Adam's (and our) punishment was difficulty in making a living. That's poverty! Mankind is poor because our antecedents were deceived. The punishment is from God. Poverty is of God! Why would Jesus eliminate poverty when He (as God) instituted poverty? Satan caused poverty, but a just God provided the penalty for rebellion.
Marx was wrong about Christianity. He saw religion as a vast contributor to poverty, but Christianity isn't the cause; Satan is! For those who are born again, poverty will be eliminated. We will be resurrected in a perfect body and live in a perfect place... a utopia called heaven!
John 14:2 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
God doesn't need nor desire "income redistribution". He allows poverty as an inducement to the hope of salvation. We'll never eliminate poverty here on earth. Jesus knew that and that's what he knew must exist! My hope is that I'll be rich for eternity. I don't mind enduring poverty temporarily for eternal riches!
Revelation 21:4 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
Poverty and it's sadness and depression will be a thing of the past! What Adam caused, Jesus corrects. It is his own time; not ours! He has no intention of allowing this world to be a place where everyone has. If the world was not brutal, why would we want to go to heaven?
It's not money that causes the problem. It's the "love of money"! (1 Timothy 6:10). Socialism has shown it's devout love for money... others money! "Thalt shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not covet." are the sins of choice of socialism. Furthermore, socialists fail to depend on God, but seek comfort from the government, in violation of The First Commandment!
"Income redistribution" is the key element of socialism. It's legal theft! Equality of wealth is the the "hope" of the poor. Their priority should lie in "the hope of salvation"!
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