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08-25-2011, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by buggyone
I think one point that could be made here for the post - next time you uber-conservatives say the Pledge of Allegiance at one of your organization meetings, remember it was a Socialist who wrote it and you are pledging to the words of a Socialist.
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Oh puhLEEZE......just a tiny bit of reading would reveal that "Christian" socialism of American 1890's was not the same as "political, marxist" socialism....and "christian socialism" of the 1890's in the USA was not what morphed into the totalitarian regimes that the USSR, Cuba and now Venezuela have been crushed into (and that Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Biden-Frank-Waters-JacksonLee are trying to crush our nation into right now).
Christian Socialism
Many who favored systematic change spoke fervently of the need to introduce a morally based cooperative element into capitalism but nonetheless took pains to distance themselves from political socialism. Some, however, were not at all shy about using the term socialist to describe themselves, even when their denominational bodies turned decidedly unreceptive to their work. These politically active Christians included William Dwight Porter Bliss, a former Congregationalist and Episcopalian, who adopted British Christian Socialist ideas and in 1906 joined the Christian Socialist Fellowship founded by Vida Scudder. He also joined the burgeoning Socialist Party, as did George Herron, a former Congregationalist pastor who gave the nominating speech for Eugene V. Debs's presidential bid in 1904. In 1909 a previously existing group, the Catholic Socialists of Chicago, founded the Catholic Socialist Society, which was affiliated with both the Christian Socialist Fellowship and the Socialist Party, despite the pope's repeated denouncements of socialism on the grounds that it violated the sanctity of private property. Even these self-styled socialists, however, were careful to distinguish their views from those of Karl Marx. They spoke more generally of cooperative economic ventures that valued the well-being of all above the profit of a few, and, of course, they sought an economic system that would be grounded in Christian love. But perhaps because of their willingness to become involved in the wider world of socialist politics, the sphere of influence of these radical reformers, both within and outside of the churches, remained small.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ch...socialism.aspx
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