People are shallow; self-love is indulging oneself with pleasure. Scripture lists three types of pleasure: sensuality, coveting, and pride: “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (1 John 2:16).
Coveting is beholding what is not yours but others. It could be beauty, prestige, property, or wealth among other things. The only things that Christians should covet is God’s love and protection. There is a covenant for that. Abraham signed an agreement with God that he would do God’s Will in exchange for God’s grace.
Grace is receiving an undeserved reward. People deserve to die but God offers reprieve because He loves His creatures. Essentially, the Abrahamic Covenant was a quid pro quo: God loves us and in return we are to love God. He has the power to save, and Christians seek salvation! “Pleasure” is loving oneself more than God, and is a violation of the First Commandment. People love themselves in God’s face. Since God’s “face” is Jesus, people love themselves more than Jesus.
Pleasure seems good because it is sensed. Before original sin, God’s love was sensed. Afterwards because of the pleasure principle, God’s love is overwhelmed by pleasure. The flesh is the receptor of pleasure. Think of the flesh as how pleasure is sensed, and that is by the five senses. The flesh is fairly well the antenna for reception of pleasure broadcast by the world. As such, most people are arrogant; they desire all the pleasure available, and fail to look at the cost of pleasure.
“Pleasure has a cost?” you ask. Sin is the enjoyment of sensual pleasure above and beyond contentment with God’s love. Yes, people can still pleasure, but not at the cost of displeasing God. Sin is things offensive to God. Ultimately, the thing most offensive to God is for His creatures to be “as God/gods” (Gen 3:5). Sin is for people TO BE as God when God IS God! In effect, self-indulgence precludes serving God. Most people want to do what is right in their own eyes without an authority over them (Jud 17:6). Therefore, sinners reject authority, and essentially seek emancipation of any institution which hinders their desires. Karl Marx addressed that craving. He understood religion, and saw it as a handicap rather than a hope. Marxism is merely a religion of self-indulgence, and socialism the fantasy which indulgences the masses of individual gods and goddesses.
Socialism is a fantasy because even Marx realized that sooner or later some people would discover it to be fantastical. Socialism cannot provide the lusts of the people because there is no wealth created by socialism. That ideology merely takes from capitalism and redistributes it: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” In practice, Marx knew that the truth was something else: From each who use their abilities, to each according to their lusts! Marx knew that those who use their ability would reject that motto, and had Plan B in reserve. Knowing men’s lusts and their rebelliousness, Marx knew that force would be required, and communism was born.
Socialism receiving the hearts’ desires. The socialist dream is a Utopia wherein everyone has, no one works, everybody does what they want to do, and there is no government nor divine authority to suppress individualism. Image the chaos if everyone could do what is right in their own eyes with impunity! Would that not be chaotic? Well, God created magnificent order, and disorder is from the Devil. The modus operandi of Satan is chaos. His plan is division – away from order and hatred is the result of division.
The fantasy of socialism is individualism without allegiance to any authority. Everyone doing their own will is the dream of socialism. However, because all men sin and offend God, likewise, all men sin and offend others. Socialism can never work in the physical realm because all of mankind have the propensity to subjugate others. Ironically, socialism, as Christianity, is based on serving others, but with their motto it is clear that they desire to serve their own wants. Socialism is organized self-indulgence.
They think they have no king, but they have many. With socialism, all are royalty. However, as with any house of royalty, there are intrigues. Marxism includes survival of the fittest. The lesser surely need less, and get less. By the time socialists come to understand that they are now communists, it’s too late to rebel. All they can then do is sacrifice for their so-called “comrades” who have become the fittest and the cruelest.
Socialism is a scam. It’s a get wealth quick scheme where the first to enter get rich off the contributions of the late-comers. In other words, socialism is a grandiose pyramid scheme with a new anti-religion wherein the gods are the individuals… or so they think! They are cunningly serving the will of Satan, thinking they are doing what us best for them. They pay tribute to their nobility, and have in essence, returned to the servitude of peasants. Rather than pleasant, they are peasant!
Socialism is the ideal Ponzi Scheme, and it works this way: “[1] is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[2] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from product sales or other means, and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own” (Wikipedia).
With socialism, Satan’s Scheme is (1) defrauds people who think their existence will improve over capitalism, and (2) are unaware that their increase is not from socialism but from capitalism. With those two misconceptions, socialists are like dogs who bite the hands that feed them for they hate capitalism with a passion, although it is the source of their wealth!
The truth is that socialism is a global scam and all those who are scammed end up losing their freedom and prosperity. The outcome of socialism is communism, and pure communism was seen in the cruel world of Russia and Germany (Yes, fascism is another way to practice communism).
Does not socialism and communism seem much like the original scam? The cunning Serpent offered better sustenance, pleasure, and wisdom to two naïve people, and what did they end up with? As farmers who were merely trying to eek out an existence on poor non-productive land. Adam and Eve went from a Utopia wherein they already lived well to an austere manual-labor drive existence in the wilderness. The Serpent promised socialism and the outcome was the most communistic society ever in existence! The Jew, Karl Marx, learned well from Satan’s techniques.
The Serpent used the colossal lie: Eat this free stuff and you will prosper. What happened? They ate just one bite of free stuff, and then were sent to a gulag outside Utopia. Ponzi as well as Marx used Satan’s cunning scheme, and naïve people still fall for more of their wants rather than the sustenance already in hand.
Socialism admits: They depend on the stupidity of the people. (Jonathan Gruber paraphrased). What did the Serpent depend on? The lack of knowledge of two gullible people. Socialism focuses on gullible people who actually believe in free things because throughout life they are treated as if they deserve more than what they strive for!
Imagine this: God provided nourishment (herbs) in the Garden of Eden but the Serpent promised rich foods, works of art, and prestige. What resulted from Satan’s scam? Hard work by the sweat of their face on arid and thorny land! Socialism promises much but delivers little. Are socialist societies better off than capitalist societies? Just compare how many fences are built to keep socialists enslaved in their country, and how few fences are made to keep people in capitalistic societies.
Did Russia build the Berlin Wall to keep people out or in? It was built to keep disgruntled socialists in bondage to an unfair system. Is the U.S. wall at Mexico to keep people out of socialist countries or keep duped people from fleeing socialism? I marvel at the stupidity of the American people who lust after socialism even in the face of wise millennials in Hong Kong praising the freedom that we have in America… and Donald Trump, the epitome of anti-socialism. Why? Because they have experienced socialism for over twenty years and yearn for the freedom they had before stupid people sold out their nation to socialism!
Democrat politicians – cunning crooks. Democrat voters – naïve people. Progressive/socialism – a grand Ponzi scheme to empower the rich socialists who laugh at their naivete!
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