QnA Evolution

[Blitz]

The early church didn't exactly strive. After all communist regimes have been destroyed researched thrived and freedom is an incentive. After awhile all communist regimes fall.

[Whitty Whit]

But the thing is. communists don't like anybody that opposes them.

Thing about communism and socialism is that they don't work if not everybody agrees with them. You have to have unanimity for those political systems to work; otherwise you'd have something of an uprising on your hands.

They will kill people for almost no reason at all

Again, that's more of the person following the philosophy than the philosophy itself. People who kill other people for almost no reason have followed every philosophy, even the ones that teach the opposite. The problem with communism, again, is that it needs unanimity to retain control, and because most of the people following it have gotten pretty paranoid, they resort to the purging. It's not that it teaches killing those who oppose you; the people following it were just like that to begin with.

I was referring to "Religion isn't exclusive to Christianity". I meant "They don't like any religion that does not coincide with that they think/teach." I should have chosen my words more wisely. And I agree with you, 31899, about agreeing with Ginny.

Also when one see a country killing off people that claims to be communist, that person should seriously think about whether or not that country is actually a communist country. Communism gets a bad reputation from poor leadership and improper use, but there have been instances where communist like groups have existed and worked very well.

But when a person who claims to be a Christian does something totally dumb and extremist (i.e. Westboro) nobody even bothers to consider "oh. they may not be Christians because they aren't doing what their God says for them to do." It can't work both ways. You cannot say "oh, people who claim to be communists aren't really communists because they aren't following the way communism is supposed to be." and also say "oh, all Christians are like the Westboros." It is the same principle.

That may be hard to follow, but please try.

[bookworm]

But when a person who claims to be a Christian does something totally dumb and extremist (i.e. Westboro) nobody even bothers to consider "oh. they may not be Christians because they aren't doing what their God says for them to do." It can't work both ways. You cannot say "oh, people who claim to be communists aren't really communists because they aren't following the way communism is supposed to be." and also say "oh, all Christians are like the Westboros." It is the same principle.

That may be hard to follow, but please try.

It’s not hard to follow, it’s an impressively lucid analogy. Did you come up with that?

[Whitty Whit]

Yes, I did. Well, I didn't have use any outside resource. I'm pretty sure someone in the past has thought of it.

[TigerintheShadows]

It is a good analogy, but how does it work in the context here? We, and even many non Christians, know that not all Christians are like those at Westboro. I'm just wondering who's questioning that; 31899 wasn't.

[Whitty Whit]

I was making a general statement, not necessarily in response to anybody. I was making the analogy based off of 31899's logic.

Are you being serious in why you don't know why I posted that? I thought it was apparent. We were discussing Communism and Christianity (not necessarily as related topics) and I used both of those as examples of my analogy. I took this quote:

Also when one see a country killing off people that claims to be communist, that person should seriously think about whether or not that country is actually a communist country.

and also applied it to Christianity.

[Blitz]

I believe that partially. Like Luther was an extreme about Jewish but he made a major difference. Communist just twist it a little to make it easier like some Christians do.

[TigerintheShadows]

-shrug- I don't know; I guess I was just wondering where anybody said that you could have one without the other, which is what you said in your post.