Socialism vs. God

     I didn’t start my blog to bash people or to be political. I only started a blog to have a place to share life and let others have that chance to share with me. Today though, I find myself in a difficult spot where I felt I needed to say something and I decided to do what I do best---tell it like it is.

I am just going to point out a few things that maybe Christians haven’t thought about concerning Socialism and God. I’m not saying you have to believe one way or the other, but I am thinking that God says you can’t believe both ways.

1) In a socialistic society everyone is governed by the government and you have no voice in what you earn, how the majority is spent, who or what to worship and basically you are the government’s pawn.

Socialists believe the government should tell people what they should and shouldn’t do. They believe the government has everyone’s interest at heart at that individuals don’t understand how to manage money on their own, how to give money to help others.

     1) God created humans with the intention that they would have  ‘Free Will’. Not even God “makes” you do something. He doesn’t make us worship Him, he only asks us to. He has told us what he wants and what he expects, but he doesn’t make us do anything to please him. He wants us to do things because we want to, because we deserve to worship him.
    2)  God doesn’t demand we give him money. He says we should want to give money to help others in different areas. He says we should want to give money to help the orphans and widows. We should want to give money to help the preachers and teachers spread the word. He never demands it. He says, “each should give according to what they have and have purposed in their heart.” In a socialist society this freedom of choice is taken away because the government tells you how much, what to give and when.

Socialists believe your money is everyone’s money.

     1) Throughout the Bible, money is a big topic. He tells us “the love of money is the root of all evil.“ He didn’t say that money itself was bad, He said the love of it was. He created it and knew its charisma.

     2) The Bible says the poor and needy will always be among us. He didn’t say we were to give everything we have to fund them.  Actually, He says that for those who won’t work and contribute to life, they shouldn’t eat. I think that’s more a lesson in learning to contribute and be a part of whatever your surroundings are. He doesn’t expect you to ignore people during hard times, but he also isn’t expecting you to fund them their entire life and give them a free ride. Everyone should feel they have some type of contribution in life. By enabling people not to work, you’re actually being selfish in not allowing them to participate in a meaningful way to live. I’m not talking about those who can’t physically work, but in today’s society we have too many that feel they can’t because we’ve allowed them that luxury.

     3) When Jesus told the parable of a master giving talents to his workers and going away, when he returned the master asked what each had done with the talents, he wasn’t talking about giving five singers the ability to go out and sing, he was talking about money. So what happened?
***There was one who did nothing and the master took the one talent he had away. To the others who made their talents increase, the master added to them for greater increase.

     That increase was for each individual--based on their own ability to be responsible and increase what he had given them. It was based on their merit and  it became a lesson of loss to the ones who did nothing or did little with what they had.  Doesn’t sound like God said everyone should pitch in and help the ones that didn’t take enough initiative or interest in adding to what they had does it?   What he was saying though was you were given an opportunity and you chose not to do what you could do to make it better and therefore you chose to lose what you had been given.

     4) In a socialist society, the idea is that everyone puts their money into the pot to be shared with everyone alike. If God had believed that was a right way to live I believe that he would have distributed the talents equally, but he didn’t. It was based on EACH INDIVIDUAL’S  actions and their amount of work to increase.

      5)God doesn’t demand we give him money. He says we should want to give money to help others in different areas. He says we should want to give money to help the orphans and widows. We should want to give money  help the preachers and teachers spread the word. He never demands it. He says, “each should give according to what they have and have purposed in their heart.” God wants us to want, to have the desire to help people from our heart not from a law that tells us what we have to give and when.

     When we are forced to give to help others, it takes away one of the things that God judges us on, which is our intention, our motive for giving.  In this sense we’ve lost a critical point of connection to God.

 In a socialist society this freedom of choice is taken away because the government tells you how much, what to give and when.

In a Socialist society the government rules over your individual control.

     1) If God had wanted his people to be enslaved by the government he’d have left the Jews with Pharaoh.
     By being under the control of a government, the people within have no choice in:
     1) How they worship or when.
     2) Who they Worship and how.
     3) They have no freedom in how to tell others what God says to tell. They have no freedom to evangelize.
    4) They have no freedom in choice of how to make money and how much they can keep.
    5) They have no freedom in who they choose to aid.
     6) They no freedom to decide how to teach their children.

     These are just a few things that Christians may not consider when they are persuaded to believe in the socialistic views of today. Socialist minds would have people believe that we already have a socialist society and that we already support them. They are correct on that to a certain degree. Our welfare system for instance, is a socialist type of system where we have little say in how our money goes into the program and who it aids.
   
   

      A very simplistic idea of socialism is that everyone makes the same, let’s say everyone is required to work 60 hours per week, yet they can only make $65,000 per year.   Everyone gets an education and everyone gets health or some type of welfare when needed. Your family, your children and their care and education are mandated by the government. If the government says that your children must start school at 3 years of age, you have no control over that. You have no control over anything actually, the government does.
 
      For a Christian who believes in God, socialism is directly opposite. God designed us to have free will to choose and what we choose and why we choose is a part of how we will be judged. Not even God stepped into the boundary of controlling our decisions.

     One of the biggest concerns of Socialism for a Christian is it attempts to take God out of the equation. As long as the government controls your money then there is no reason to rely on God for anything. You won’t need to rely on him for your care, your money needs or anything else. Once you’ve taken  The God out of the equation your god becomes the government.

     Socialists try to persuade people by telling them how wonderful the idea of “everyone being taken care of is” or “everyone has the same opportunity for free education and free health care.”  Personally, for me, I don’t need the government to take care of me. I don’t want the government to control my choices. I like God’s idea of my working, my own work and merit choosing who I become. I like the idea of my choosing the opportunities and paths I take.  For me, I think God is pretty awesome that not even he intrudes on my free will of choosing what, who, when or what to believe.