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Originally Posted by FatGuyTri  I am not a communist, but can't say what is inherently evil about it. |
In real life it seems to be impossible to have a communist state without having a corrupt government who abuse their power and vastly ignore human rights by making their own people suffer. All of the greed and evil shifts over to the government, and the rest of the people suffer greatly.
Socialism kind of tries to be the best of both worlds. You get ownership by the government and they try to distribute things more equally, but they have elected officials and more power is in the hands of the people, so you don't get as many human rights violations and stuff like that. But, you still see situations where it's easy to get a free ride at the bottom of the ladder, yet the top performers are held back greatly.
But the problem is that Jesus would not have and did not teach a governmental financial setup like this. He taught that you should give and help because you WANT to, not because the government is MAKING you. HUGE difference. His teachings were about what's in an individual's heart, not what the laws of an entire country says.
