Name: Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question is Being Asked Again, and why the Answer is Almost Always Wrong (en Inglés)
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Author: Lawrence W. Reed
ISBN: 9781610171601

portada Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question is Being Asked Again, and why the Answer is Almost Always Wrong (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Isi Books

Autor

Lawrence W. Reed

Año

2020

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Inglés

N° páginas

160

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781610171601

Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question is Being Asked Again, and why the Answer is Almost Always Wrong (en Inglés)

Lawrence W. Reed (Autor) · Isi Books · Tapa Blanda

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Socialism is making a comeback―and so is the idea that “Jesus was a socialist.” In this timely new book, Foundation for Economic Education president emeritus Lawrence W. Reed shows it is pure fantasy to believe that Jesus wanted earthly governments to redistribute wealth, centrally plan the economy, or impose welfare states.Economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed has been hearing people say “Jesus was a socialist” for fifty years. And it has always bothered him.Now he is doing something about it.His new book demolishes the claim that Jesus was a socialist. Jesus called on earthly governments to redistribute wealth? Or centrally plan the economy? Or even impose a welfare state?Hardly.Point by point, Reed answers the claims of socialists and progressives who try to enlist Jesus in their causes. As he reveals, nothing in the New Testament supports their contentions.Was Jesus a Socialist? could not be more timely. Socialism has made a shocking comeback in America. Poll after poll shows that young Americans have a positive image of socialism. In fact, more than half say they would rather live in a socialist country than in a capitalist one.And as socialism has come back into vogue, more and more of its advocates have tried to convince us that Jesus was a socialist.This rhetoric has had an impact. According to a 2016 poll by the Barna Group, Americans think socialism aligns better with Jesus’s teachings than capitalism does. When respondents were asked which of that year’s presidential candidates aligned closest to Jesus’s teachings, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” came out on top. Sure enough, the same candidate earned more primary votes from under-thirty voters than did the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees combined.And in a 2019 survey, more than 70 percent of millennials said they were likely to vote for a socialist.Was Jesus a Socialist? expands on the immensely popular video of the same name that Reed recorded for Prager University in July 2019. That video has attracted more than four million views online.Ultimately, Reed shows the foolishness of trying to enlist Jesus in any political cause today. He writes: “While I don’t believe it is valid to claim that Jesus was a socialist, I also don’t think it is valid to argue that he was a capitalist. Neither was he a Republican or a Democrat. These are modern-day terms, and to apply any of them to Jesus is to limit him to but a fraction of who he was and what he taught.”