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   From: quahog@fish.net   
      
   In article , Joe Myers wrote:   
   > "Stan de SD"  wrote   
   >   
   >> "Joe Myers"  wrote in message   
   >> news:mSqIc.9735$aZ6.1816@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...   
   >> > "Dana" <#$%@%$#.com> wrote   
   >> >   
   >> > > Bullshit. Socialism is as anti-democratic as you get.   
   >> >   
   >> >       All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that   
   >> any   
   >> > of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.  --   
   >>   
   >> Your point?   
   >   
   > It's not *my* point.  It was the Apostle Luke's.   
   >   
      
   That particular verse tells of the beginning of the Jerusalem Christians'   
   failed experiment with communism.  If you read later writings by Paul, you   
   will find that the Jerusalem Christians were so destitute that he had to   
   take up collections wherever he went to support them.  Some Christians in   
   Jerusalem were quite wealthy before, and many had productive farmlands.   
   communism made them all poor and dependent on others.   
      
   The Pilgrims also tried communism for a time, but reconsidered when they   
   realized they faced extinction.   
      
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