Mammon

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Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don’t support imperialism against Iran. Doesn’t negate anything I said. China is being imperialistic right now. Hell, so is Iran towards much of the Shiite Middle East

American imperialism has fought HIV. Chinese imperialism forces hysterectomies on Muslim women. Hope this helps, it really is that simple and binary

there is no "american" or "chinese" imperialism. in every nation, in every place, the faithful and the innocent and the planet itself suffer as one, while the wicked are free to do evil. we have made nigh universal the unforgivable sin. if we have not broken the covenant, we have failed it so comprehensively it is a distinction without a difference.

indeed, as many later communist writers have noted, marx's own thought was rooted in a christian faith. but like us, he lived through worship of mammon and all its associated horrors. his was a deeply and bitterly betrayed faith. did you know a very young karl marx wrote an essay titled The Union of Believers With Christ According to John 15: 1-14, Showing its Basis and Essence, its Absolute Necessity, and its Effects? likely not. there is a reason marx's writings track the central teachings of jesus' so closely, stripped of tribalism and imperial ambition; their central philosophical difference revolving more around materialism versus idealism--the means of arriving at the outcomes they ultimately agreed on--and, of course, that marx was merely a mortal man.