Gospel accounts of Jesus' Life Written within 8 Years of Jesus' death

Never forget:   The Gospel of Luke was written to "Most Excellent Theophilus" who was High Priest 4-8 years after Jesus' crucifixion.  The Gospel of Luke was written within 8 years of Jesus' death. 

Luke tells us that others -- MANY -- had already written other books before him.  He says many have undertaken to write an account.  So Luke is probably the LAST of the gospels written, or at least there were "many" written accounts within a few years of Jesus' death to assist in writing the other gospels.  

HOWEVER -- "scholars" cannot accept that Jesus in 33 AD could have known the future and foretold the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 AD.  Therefore, atheists and agnostics with academic degrees have tried mightily to argue that the gospels were written much later, so that they can avoid the divinity of Jesus Christ knowing the future. 

Also, remember that under Roman occupation, Jewish officials were chosen or approved by Rome.  So the Jewish officials were often Hellenized Jews acceptable to Rome, and they would take on Greek names in keeping with political winds and trends.

WAR BEGINS: SLANDERING CONSERVATIVES HAS STARTED

The attacks have begun.  The Republican establishment in the U.S.A. has now actually started the shooting war in the 2014 primary elections they have been threatening against conservative candidates for Congress.

“Hopefully we’ll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them,” said former Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio.  His new political group, Defending Main Street, plans to raise $8 million to defeat tea-party candidates and elect moderate Republicans instead. “We’re going to be very aggressive and we’re going to get in their faces.”  LaTourette was a close ally of moderate Republican Speaker John Boehner in the U.S. House.

On December 19, 2013, the Weekly Standard launched a smear http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/spousal-rape-defending-republican-considering-running-house_771483.html – what used to be called a “lie” in the quaint old days – against Virginia State Senator Dick Black.  The smear was promoted by The Drudge Report linking to the story.  Drudge refused to take down the smear after many protests.  It is not a story about news, but the kind of opposition research spread by election campaigns going negative.

The story consisted of posting a campaign ad by a Democrat opponent in 2011, under an extremely inflammatory headline.  Dick Black won that campaign in 2011 with 57% https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2011/EB178FD6-875D-4B0D-A295-900A0482F523/Official/7_s.shtml of the vote.  The story – and the headline – suggests that Dick Black would be unelectable in 2014 if nominated for U.S. Congress.  Yet the Democrat Shawn Mitchell who ran the TV ad in 2011 lost with only 42.8% of the vote.

What’s the occasion?  On December 17, 2013, seventeen-term moderate Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf announced he will not seek re-election on November 4, 2014.  So Virginia’s Tenth Congressional District in Northern Virginia will now be an open battle in 2014. 

Former JAG attorney Col. Dick Black – a skilled campaigner who moves quickly – announced an exploratory committee. Then Delegate Bob Marshall dropped out of consideration and endorsed Black.  Although Black’s political career was very active long before the tea party, he might be counted tea party consistent.

That same Tuesday when Wolf announced, an important website Virginia Virtucon http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/ posted a poll with a long list of potential candidates.  Virginia Delegate Barbara Comstock and Senator Dick Black have been trading first and second place.  The site is followed by very politically involved Virginia activists.  So it suddenly looked like conservative Dick Black could shape up into a leading contender.

The smear accuses Col. Dick Black of supporting husbands raping their wives, that Black opposed laws against spousal rape.  So we have Bill Kristol’s magazine spreading the liberal “war on women” scam. This is not the first time the Weekly Standard has taken point for inaccurate hatchet jobs on conservative candidates.

However, incredibly, Dick Black actually voted for the bill in question, H.B. 488.  On February 7, 2002, then Delegate Black pointed out problems with the bill – but voted for it after those problems were fixed.

Furthermore, Senator Black is the only member of the General Assembly who actually prosecuted a case of spousal rape – successfully -- as a former JAG officer in the military. The Judge Advocate General attorney prosecuted many men guilty of domestic violence in general.

In the 2002 floor speech replayed in the Democrat campaign ad, it is unmistakably clear that Dick Black was pointing out that the law was unworkable as drafted. Black obviously was not arguing for spousal rape or the legal opportunity for it.  It is crystal clear that Black was identifying – as a former prosecutor – how the law would have problems in the courtroom from a prosecutor’s perspective.  It was rewritten and polished.  Black then voted for it, all within days.

Some campaign experts like Rick Shaftan consider the “10^th C.D.” a safe Republican seat heading in to a 2014 Republican tidal wave, despite narrowly voting for Mitt Romney in 2012 and voting for Barack Obama in 2008.  So any Republican will probably win Frank Wolf’s U.S. House seat if nominated, assuming a competent campaign.

Oddly, the Republican establishment keeps coming up with the completely “new” idea of smearing conservatives.  Year after year, they keep announcing that “this time” the GOP needs to do a better job “vetting” candidates.  Yet the establishment has always attacked conservative candidates, pointing out weaknesses real or imagined.  What GOP insiders want to do “this time” – as a “new” idea – is the same thing they do every election cycle.

Karl Rove’s “Conservative Victory Project” was created to “start by intensely vetting prospective contenders for Congressional races to try to weed out candidates who are seen as too flawed to win general elections.”  Conservative icon Brent Bozell responded by sending an email http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/14/first-on-cnn-tea-party-activists-bomb-email-list-of-crossroads-donors/comment-page-1/ to Karl Rove’s donors warning that they wasted their money:  “Now, in an attempt to explain the astonishingly low return on the hundreds of millions of dollars investment in Crossroads, Karl Rove and others are attempting to blame conservatives and the tea party.”  And: "Meanwhile, more moderate candidates like Tommy Thompson, Heather Wilson, Rick Berg, and Denny Rehberg went down to defeat despite significant support from Crossroads."

Establishment Republicans not only vote for bigger government, more spending, higher deficits, and ever-expanding regulation.  They also openly express their contempt for conservatives.  Insiders have always attacked the tea party.

Ironically, retiring Congressman Frank Wolf is a fiscal moderate weak on the budget and government spending.  Heritage Action ranks Wolf at 46%.  Americans for Prosperity rates the Congressman at 56% (lifetime 66%).  The National Taxpayer’s Union rates Wolf with a “C” or a score of 64% -- 227^th out of 435 for fiscal discipline.   The consistently soft-on-RINO’s American Conservative Union ranks Wolf at 79.62%. 

Yet Wolf is supported by most tea party members in Northern Virginia.  The Northern Virginia Tea Party, of which this author is a member, actually split in 2010 over the desire of some leaders to attack Frank Wolf.  The rank and file of the tea party overwhelmingly demanded support for Wolf’s re-election despite his deficiencies on budget issues.

So how does a moderate Republican enjoy support from the tea party?   Well, Frank Wolf doesn’t go around attacking conservatives the way Karl Rove, Steve LaTourette and others do.  Wolf reaches out to and shows up at tea party meetings whenever possible.  Wolf makes all factions of the GOP genuinely feel that he wants to work with all of them.  So, perfect or not, Wolf is accepted.

The truth is that the grassroots just isn’t listening to anything the insiders have to say.  In every election campaign where we are now told that candidates were not “vetted” fully.  But the establishment was already attacking those conservative candidates months ahead. 

Republican primary voters simply didn’t care what the insiders have to say.  It is false that primary voters didn’t know about conservative candidates’ pros and cons.  The voters were simply not interested in the establishment’s arguments and reasoning.  In fact, the more the insiders attack the conservative, the more the grassroots rushes to elect the conservative.  In 2010 in Delaware, for example, the more Karl Rove insisted that the grassroots must not vote for Christine O’Donnell, the more enthusiastically they lined up to poke a thumb in Karl Rove’s eye.

World Net Daily Article: Jesus Christ is a Capitalist

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

Jesus Christ is a capitalist

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism

By Jonathan Moseley
We discover in the New Testament, in Luke Chapter 12:13-14:

“Someone in the crowd said to Him [Jesus Christ], ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But He said to him, ‘Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?’”

In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing “Jesus Christ supported socialism” heresy. When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth – to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other – Jesus refused. Jesus would never support government or a church stealing property by force to give it to a stranger. He would not even intervene for one man to share his own family’s wealth with his own brother.
Obviously, Jesus would sternly warn the brother hoarding wealth against greed, dishonesty and defrauding his family. But Jesus preached to the person in front of him about how to live right.  Jesus was never teaching one person what is wrong with someone else (except to clarify how the listener should behave by contrast).
One truth shines out from the Bible: Jesus spoke to the individual, never to government or government policy. Jesus was a capitalist, preaching personal responsibility, not a socialist.
Pope Francis condemned capitalism. Some argue that Francis’ Spanish-language Apostolic Exhortation was mistranslated. But Francis is not among those disputing that translation.  Moreover, corrected translations are no better.
Francis argues for dependence upon government to redistribute wealth. And con artists in the U.S. are seizing on the opportunity to spread the misery of socialism. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin this week called Pope Francis on his mangling of economics. Then author Reza Aslan struck back in the Washington Post, claiming that Jesus was a socialist.
But we have to define our terms:

• By “socialism,” we must understand “theft.” A socialist government uses brute force, backed up by guns, to steal property from some people to give it to others.Pope Francis reflects the wish that governments might better organize society. But governments cannot do that apart from the threat of violence to enforce their schemes. Would Jesus endorse the violence needed for government intervention?
• By capitalism, we mean individual initiative under freedom, with the right to use what people own and to reap the fruits of one’s labor and initiative. Capitalist business must necessarily benefit society, because private businesses have no power to force anyone to buy their products or services. The consumer is king. Consumers won’t buy unless the purchase benefits them. To reinforce that central pillar of capitalism, laws against lying and fraud are proper and necessary. The consumer must be able to know and understand what he is buying and what it truly costs. The same applies to employment.

• We reject crony capitalism and monopolies. That is what the Vatican obviously believes capitalism means. When corrupt governments are entangled with businesses, then transactions are no longer voluntary. Crony capitalism is what most people experience in Francis’ native Argentina, throughout Latin America and much of the Third World. The benefit to society is absent without informed consent.

We know that Jesus condemns crony capitalism. That’s partly what the incident at the temple was all about in Matthew 21, when Jesus overturned the tables of money-changers. Some think money-changers were bankers. Actually they exchanged one currency for another. The temple priests required that special temple coins had to be used to give mandatory tithes. So worshipers had to exchange their secular money. But the money-changers were defrauding people with a dishonest exchange rate.
Yet Jesus specifically supported the concept of capitalism. In Matthew 25:15-18, Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like:

“To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

Jesus is clearly using money as a metaphor for making the most of all of life’s opportunities, abilities and moments. Yet in teaching us how we should live, Jesus agrees that a man who traded with investment capital and earned profits is praised and rewarded by his master, a type for God, and given increased authority. Most striking is what Jesus says to the man who was too afraid to take a chance with the one talent of gold entrusted to him. Jesus endorses the concept of earning interest for profit.

Matthew 25:27-28: “Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.”

By contrast, in any of the versions, in paragraph 202, Pope Francis attacks markets. In paragraph 204, the pope explicitly rejects the “invisible hand” of the market, which has created the greatest prosperity in human history, as a “poison.”
In paragraph 58, Pope Francis argues that reform requires “an energetic change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” That directly contradicts Jesus’ strategy of changing individual hearts one soul at a time. The Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation was titled “The Joy of Evangelism.” If Francis had stayed focused on encouraging evangelism, that would have served both God and man. The Catholic Church does not seem to really believe that evangelism can improve society.
In paragraph 55, Francis blames poverty and unequal wealth on “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.” But there was also poverty in Jesus’ day, when government tightly regulated the economy.
In paragraph 56, Francis argues for government management of business, condemning as sinful and as “tyranny” those who “reject the right of states, entrusted to watch for the common good, to exercise any form of control” over the economy. Paragraphs 58 and 205 are similar. The pope says capitalism “tends to devour everything in order to yield increased profits.”
In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’” Everyone kept confusing what Jesus was saying as being political, to change government leaders or its philosophy. In Acts 1, the disciples wanted to know if – finally – Jesus was going to change the governance of Israel by overthrowing the Romans. Jesus rebuffed such ideas:

Acts 1:6-7: “So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, ‘Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?’ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority …’”

In paragraphs 57 and 203, Pope Francis decries capitalism for its “manipulation and debasement of the person.” Yet that is exactly what socialism does. Only capitalism exalts the individual amidst personal liberty and allows each person to achieve his or her full potential.
Worst of all, this controversy encourages misery, poverty and the destruction of human lives. Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world. It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.

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Jonathon Moseley is a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney. Moseley is also a co-host with the “Conservative Commandos” radio show, a member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party and executive director of American Border Control. He studied Physics at Hampshire College, earned a degree in Finance from the University of Florida and a law degree from George Mason University in Virginia. Moseley promoted Reagan’s anti-missile defense plans and foreign policy at High Frontier and the Center for Peace in Freedom. He worked five years at the U.S. Department of Education, including at the Center for Choice in Education.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

We discover in the New Testament, in Luke Chapter 12:13-14:

“Someone in the crowd said to Him [Jesus Christ], ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But He said to him, ‘Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?’”

In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing “Jesus Christ supported socialism” heresy. When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth – to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other – Jesus refused. Jesus would never support government or a church stealing property by force to give it to a stranger. He would not even intervene for one man to share his own family’s wealth with his own brother.
Obviously, Jesus would sternly warn the brother hoarding wealth against greed, dishonesty and defrauding his family. But Jesus preached to the person in front of him about how to live right.  Jesus was never teaching one person what is wrong with someone else (except to clarify how the listener should behave by contrast).
One truth shines out from the Bible: Jesus spoke to the individual, never to government or government policy. Jesus was a capitalist, preaching personal responsibility, not a socialist.
Pope Francis condemned capitalism. Some argue that Francis’ Spanish-language Apostolic Exhortation was mistranslated. But Francis is not among those disputing that translation.  Moreover, corrected translations are no better.
Francis argues for dependence upon government to redistribute wealth. And con artists in the U.S. are seizing on the opportunity to spread the misery of socialism. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin this week called Pope Francis on his mangling of economics. Then author Reza Aslan struck back in the Washington Post, claiming that Jesus was a socialist.
But we have to define our terms:

• By “socialism,” we must understand “theft.” A socialist government uses brute force, backed up by guns, to steal property from some people to give it to others.Pope Francis reflects the wish that governments might better organize society. But governments cannot do that apart from the threat of violence to enforce their schemes. Would Jesus endorse the violence needed for government intervention?
• By capitalism, we mean individual initiative under freedom, with the right to use what people own and to reap the fruits of one’s labor and initiative. Capitalist business must necessarily benefit society, because private businesses have no power to force anyone to buy their products or services. The consumer is king. Consumers won’t buy unless the purchase benefits them. To reinforce that central pillar of capitalism, laws against lying and fraud are proper and necessary. The consumer must be able to know and understand what he is buying and what it truly costs. The same applies to employment.

• We reject crony capitalism and monopolies. That is what the Vatican obviously believes capitalism means. When corrupt governments are entangled with businesses, then transactions are no longer voluntary. Crony capitalism is what most people experience in Francis’ native Argentina, throughout Latin America and much of the Third World. The benefit to society is absent without informed consent.

We know that Jesus condemns crony capitalism. That’s partly what the incident at the temple was all about in Matthew 21, when Jesus overturned the tables of money-changers. Some think money-changers were bankers. Actually they exchanged one currency for another. The temple priests required that special temple coins had to be used to give mandatory tithes. So worshipers had to exchange their secular money. But the money-changers were defrauding people with a dishonest exchange rate.
Yet Jesus specifically supported the concept of capitalism. In Matthew 25:15-18, Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like:

“To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

Jesus is clearly using money as a metaphor for making the most of all of life’s opportunities, abilities and moments. Yet in teaching us how we should live, Jesus agrees that a man who traded with investment capital and earned profits is praised and rewarded by his master, a type for God, and given increased authority. Most striking is what Jesus says to the man who was too afraid to take a chance with the one talent of gold entrusted to him. Jesus endorses the concept of earning interest for profit.

Matthew 25:27-28: “Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.”

By contrast, in any of the versions, in paragraph 202, Pope Francis attacks markets. In paragraph 204, the pope explicitly rejects the “invisible hand” of the market, which has created the greatest prosperity in human history, as a “poison.”
In paragraph 58, Pope Francis argues that reform requires “an energetic change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” That directly contradicts Jesus’ strategy of changing individual hearts one soul at a time. The Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation was titled “The Joy of Evangelism.” If Francis had stayed focused on encouraging evangelism, that would have served both God and man. The Catholic Church does not seem to really believe that evangelism can improve society.
In paragraph 55, Francis blames poverty and unequal wealth on “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.” But there was also poverty in Jesus’ day, when government tightly regulated the economy.
In paragraph 56, Francis argues for government management of business, condemning as sinful and as “tyranny” those who “reject the right of states, entrusted to watch for the common good, to exercise any form of control” over the economy. Paragraphs 58 and 205 are similar. The pope says capitalism “tends to devour everything in order to yield increased profits.”
In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’” Everyone kept confusing what Jesus was saying as being political, to change government leaders or its philosophy. In Acts 1, the disciples wanted to know if – finally – Jesus was going to change the governance of Israel by overthrowing the Romans. Jesus rebuffed such ideas:

Acts 1:6-7: “So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, ‘Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?’ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority …’”

In paragraphs 57 and 203, Pope Francis decries capitalism for its “manipulation and debasement of the person.” Yet that is exactly what socialism does. Only capitalism exalts the individual amidst personal liberty and allows each person to achieve his or her full potential.
Worst of all, this controversy encourages misery, poverty and the destruction of human lives. Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world. It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

By Jonathan Moseley
We discover in the New Testament, in Luke Chapter 12:13-14:

“Someone in the crowd said to Him [Jesus Christ], ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But He said to him, ‘Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?’”

In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing “Jesus Christ supported socialism” heresy. When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth – to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other – Jesus refused. Jesus would never support government or a church stealing property by force to give it to a stranger. He would not even intervene for one man to share his own family’s wealth with his own brother.
Obviously, Jesus would sternly warn the brother hoarding wealth against greed, dishonesty and defrauding his family. But Jesus preached to the person in front of him about how to live right.  Jesus was never teaching one person what is wrong with someone else (except to clarify how the listener should behave by contrast).
One truth shines out from the Bible: Jesus spoke to the individual, never to government or government policy. Jesus was a capitalist, preaching personal responsibility, not a socialist.
Pope Francis condemned capitalism. Some argue that Francis’ Spanish-language Apostolic Exhortation was mistranslated. But Francis is not among those disputing that translation.  Moreover, corrected translations are no better.
Francis argues for dependence upon government to redistribute wealth. And con artists in the U.S. are seizing on the opportunity to spread the misery of socialism. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin this week called Pope Francis on his mangling of economics. Then author Reza Aslan struck back in the Washington Post, claiming that Jesus was a socialist.
But we have to define our terms:

• By “socialism,” we must understand “theft.” A socialist government uses brute force, backed up by guns, to steal property from some people to give it to others.Pope Francis reflects the wish that governments might better organize society. But governments cannot do that apart from the threat of violence to enforce their schemes. Would Jesus endorse the violence needed for government intervention?
• By capitalism, we mean individual initiative under freedom, with the right to use what people own and to reap the fruits of one’s labor and initiative. Capitalist business must necessarily benefit society, because private businesses have no power to force anyone to buy their products or services. The consumer is king. Consumers won’t buy unless the purchase benefits them. To reinforce that central pillar of capitalism, laws against lying and fraud are proper and necessary. The consumer must be able to know and understand what he is buying and what it truly costs. The same applies to employment.

• We reject crony capitalism and monopolies. That is what the Vatican obviously believes capitalism means. When corrupt governments are entangled with businesses, then transactions are no longer voluntary. Crony capitalism is what most people experience in Francis’ native Argentina, throughout Latin America and much of the Third World. The benefit to society is absent without informed consent.

We know that Jesus condemns crony capitalism. That’s partly what the incident at the temple was all about in Matthew 21, when Jesus overturned the tables of money-changers. Some think money-changers were bankers. Actually they exchanged one currency for another. The temple priests required that special temple coins had to be used to give mandatory tithes. So worshipers had to exchange their secular money. But the money-changers were defrauding people with a dishonest exchange rate.
Yet Jesus specifically supported the concept of capitalism. In Matthew 25:15-18, Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like:

“To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

Jesus is clearly using money as a metaphor for making the most of all of life’s opportunities, abilities and moments. Yet in teaching us how we should live, Jesus agrees that a man who traded with investment capital and earned profits is praised and rewarded by his master, a type for God, and given increased authority. Most striking is what Jesus says to the man who was too afraid to take a chance with the one talent of gold entrusted to him. Jesus endorses the concept of earning interest for profit.

Matthew 25:27-28: “Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.”

By contrast, in any of the versions, in paragraph 202, Pope Francis attacks markets. In paragraph 204, the pope explicitly rejects the “invisible hand” of the market, which has created the greatest prosperity in human history, as a “poison.”
In paragraph 58, Pope Francis argues that reform requires “an energetic change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” That directly contradicts Jesus’ strategy of changing individual hearts one soul at a time. The Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation was titled “The Joy of Evangelism.” If Francis had stayed focused on encouraging evangelism, that would have served both God and man. The Catholic Church does not seem to really believe that evangelism can improve society.
In paragraph 55, Francis blames poverty and unequal wealth on “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.” But there was also poverty in Jesus’ day, when government tightly regulated the economy.
In paragraph 56, Francis argues for government management of business, condemning as sinful and as “tyranny” those who “reject the right of states, entrusted to watch for the common good, to exercise any form of control” over the economy. Paragraphs 58 and 205 are similar. The pope says capitalism “tends to devour everything in order to yield increased profits.”
In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’” Everyone kept confusing what Jesus was saying as being political, to change government leaders or its philosophy. In Acts 1, the disciples wanted to know if – finally – Jesus was going to change the governance of Israel by overthrowing the Romans. Jesus rebuffed such ideas:

Acts 1:6-7: “So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, ‘Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?’ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority …’”

In paragraphs 57 and 203, Pope Francis decries capitalism for its “manipulation and debasement of the person.” Yet that is exactly what socialism does. Only capitalism exalts the individual amidst personal liberty and allows each person to achieve his or her full potential.
Worst of all, this controversy encourages misery, poverty and the destruction of human lives. Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world. It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.

---

Jonathon Moseley is a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney. Moseley is also a co-host with the “Conservative Commandos” radio show, a member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party and executive director of American Border Control. He studied Physics at Hampshire College, earned a degree in Finance from the University of Florida and a law degree from George Mason University in Virginia. Moseley promoted Reagan’s anti-missile defense plans and foreign policy at High Frontier and the Center for Peace in Freedom. He worked five years at the U.S. Department of Education, including at the Center for Choice in Education.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

We discover in the New Testament, in Luke Chapter 12:13-14:

“Someone in the crowd said to Him [Jesus Christ], ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But He said to him, ‘Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?’”

In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing “Jesus Christ supported socialism” heresy. When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth – to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other – Jesus refused. Jesus would never support government or a church stealing property by force to give it to a stranger. He would not even intervene for one man to share his own family’s wealth with his own brother.
Obviously, Jesus would sternly warn the brother hoarding wealth against greed, dishonesty and defrauding his family. But Jesus preached to the person in front of him about how to live right.  Jesus was never teaching one person what is wrong with someone else (except to clarify how the listener should behave by contrast).
One truth shines out from the Bible: Jesus spoke to the individual, never to government or government policy. Jesus was a capitalist, preaching personal responsibility, not a socialist.
Pope Francis condemned capitalism. Some argue that Francis’ Spanish-language Apostolic Exhortation was mistranslated. But Francis is not among those disputing that translation.  Moreover, corrected translations are no better.
Francis argues for dependence upon government to redistribute wealth. And con artists in the U.S. are seizing on the opportunity to spread the misery of socialism. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin this week called Pope Francis on his mangling of economics. Then author Reza Aslan struck back in the Washington Post, claiming that Jesus was a socialist.
But we have to define our terms:

• By “socialism,” we must understand “theft.” A socialist government uses brute force, backed up by guns, to steal property from some people to give it to others.Pope Francis reflects the wish that governments might better organize society. But governments cannot do that apart from the threat of violence to enforce their schemes. Would Jesus endorse the violence needed for government intervention?
• By capitalism, we mean individual initiative under freedom, with the right to use what people own and to reap the fruits of one’s labor and initiative. Capitalist business must necessarily benefit society, because private businesses have no power to force anyone to buy their products or services. The consumer is king. Consumers won’t buy unless the purchase benefits them. To reinforce that central pillar of capitalism, laws against lying and fraud are proper and necessary. The consumer must be able to know and understand what he is buying and what it truly costs. The same applies to employment.

• We reject crony capitalism and monopolies. That is what the Vatican obviously believes capitalism means. When corrupt governments are entangled with businesses, then transactions are no longer voluntary. Crony capitalism is what most people experience in Francis’ native Argentina, throughout Latin America and much of the Third World. The benefit to society is absent without informed consent.

We know that Jesus condemns crony capitalism. That’s partly what the incident at the temple was all about in Matthew 21, when Jesus overturned the tables of money-changers. Some think money-changers were bankers. Actually they exchanged one currency for another. The temple priests required that special temple coins had to be used to give mandatory tithes. So worshipers had to exchange their secular money. But the money-changers were defrauding people with a dishonest exchange rate.
Yet Jesus specifically supported the concept of capitalism. In Matthew 25:15-18, Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like:

“To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

Jesus is clearly using money as a metaphor for making the most of all of life’s opportunities, abilities and moments. Yet in teaching us how we should live, Jesus agrees that a man who traded with investment capital and earned profits is praised and rewarded by his master, a type for God, and given increased authority. Most striking is what Jesus says to the man who was too afraid to take a chance with the one talent of gold entrusted to him. Jesus endorses the concept of earning interest for profit.

Matthew 25:27-28: “Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.”

By contrast, in any of the versions, in paragraph 202, Pope Francis attacks markets. In paragraph 204, the pope explicitly rejects the “invisible hand” of the market, which has created the greatest prosperity in human history, as a “poison.”
In paragraph 58, Pope Francis argues that reform requires “an energetic change of attitude on the part of political leaders.” That directly contradicts Jesus’ strategy of changing individual hearts one soul at a time. The Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation was titled “The Joy of Evangelism.” If Francis had stayed focused on encouraging evangelism, that would have served both God and man. The Catholic Church does not seem to really believe that evangelism can improve society.
In paragraph 55, Francis blames poverty and unequal wealth on “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.” But there was also poverty in Jesus’ day, when government tightly regulated the economy.
In paragraph 56, Francis argues for government management of business, condemning as sinful and as “tyranny” those who “reject the right of states, entrusted to watch for the common good, to exercise any form of control” over the economy. Paragraphs 58 and 205 are similar. The pope says capitalism “tends to devour everything in order to yield increased profits.”
In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’” Everyone kept confusing what Jesus was saying as being political, to change government leaders or its philosophy. In Acts 1, the disciples wanted to know if – finally – Jesus was going to change the governance of Israel by overthrowing the Romans. Jesus rebuffed such ideas:

Acts 1:6-7: “So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, ‘Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?’ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority …’”

In paragraphs 57 and 203, Pope Francis decries capitalism for its “manipulation and debasement of the person.” Yet that is exactly what socialism does. Only capitalism exalts the individual amidst personal liberty and allows each person to achieve his or her full potential.
Worst of all, this controversy encourages misery, poverty and the destruction of human lives. Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world. It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

We discover in the New Testament, Luke Chapter 12: 

 

“¹³ Someone in the crowd said to Him [Jesus Christ], ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ ¹⁴ But He said to him, ‘Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?’”

 

            In just one verse, we see that God rejects the left-wing “Jesus Christ supported socialism” heresy.   When Jesus was asked to support redistribution of wealth, to tell one brother to share the family inheritance with the other, Jesus refused.  Jesus would never support government or a church stealing property by force to give it to a stranger.  He would not intervene for one man to share his own family’s wealth with his own brother.

 

Obviously, Jesus would sternly warn the brother hoarding wealth against greed, dishonesty, and defrauding his family.  But Jesus preached to the person in front of him about how to live right.  Jesus was never teaching one person what is wrong with someone else (except to clarify how the listener should behave by contrast).

 

One truth shines out from the Bible:  Jesus spoke to the individual, never to government or government policy.  Jesus Christ was a capitalist, preaching personal responsibility, not a socialist. 

 

Pope Francis condemned capitalism.  Some argue http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/11/29/Has-Pope-Francis-Message-Been-Lost-in-Translation that Francis’s Spanish-language Apostolic Exhortation was mis-translated.  But Francis is not among those disputing that translation.  Moreover, corrected translations http://jmgarciaiii.blogspot.com/2013/11/evangelii-gaudium-or-i-cant-believe-im.html are no better. 

 

Francis argues for dependence upon government to redistribute wealth.  And con-artists in the U.S.A. are seizing on the opportunity to spread the misery of socialism.  Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin this week called Pope Francis on his mangling of economics.  Then author Reza Aslan struck back in The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/11/28/if-rush-limbaugh-and-sarah-palin-dont-like-the-pope-they-wont-care-much-for-jesus/ claiming that Jesus was a socialist.

 

But we have to define our terms: 

 

·         By ‘socialism’ we must understand ‘theft.’  A socialist government uses brute force, backed by guns, to steal property from some people to give it to others. 

 

Pope Francis reflects the wish that governments might better organize society.  But governments cannot do that apart from the threat of violence to enforce their schemes.  Would Jesus endorse the violence needed for government intervention?

 

·         By capitalism we mean individual initiative under freedom, with the right to use what people own and to reap the fruits of one’s labor and initiative.   Capitalist business must necessarily benefit society, because private businesses have no power to force anyone to buy their products or services.  The consumer is king. 

 

Consumers won’t buy unless the purchase benefits them.  To reinforce that central pillar of capitalism, laws against cheating, lying, and fraud are proper and necessary.  The consumer must be able to know and understand what he is buying and what it truly costs.  The same applies to employment.

 

·         We reject crony capitalism and monopolies.  That is what the Vatican obviously believes capitalism means.  When corrupt governments are entangled with businesses, then transactions are no longer voluntary.  Crony capitalism is what most people experience in Francis’ native Argentina, throughout Latin America, and much of the Third World.  The benefit to society is absent without informed consent.

 

We know that Jesus condemns crony capitalism.  That’s partly what the incident at the temple was all about in Matthew 21, when Jesus overturned the tables of money-changers.  Some think money-changers were bankers.  Actually they exchanged one currency for another.  The temple priests required that special temple coins be used to pay mandatory tithes.  So worshippers had to exchange their secular money.  But the money-changers were defrauding people with a dishonest exchange rate.

 

Yet Jesus specifically supported the concept of capitalism.  In Matthew 25, Jesus teaches what the (His) Kingdom of God is like:

 

^“15 To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. ¹⁷ In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. ¹⁸ But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

 

Jesus is clearly using money as a metaphor for making the most of all of life’s opportunities, abilities, and moments.  Yet in teaching us how we should live, Jesus agrees that a man who traded with investment capital and earned profits is praised and rewarded with paradise by his master, a type for God, and given increased authority.  Most striking is what Jesus says to the man who was too afraid to take a chance with the one talent of gold entrusted to him. Jesus endorses the concept of earning interest for profit. 

 

Matthew 25:  “²⁷ Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. ²⁸ Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.” 

 

By contrast, in any of the versions, in paragraph 202, Pope Francis attacks markets.  In paragraph 204, the Pope explicitly rejects the “invisible hand” of the market, which has created the greatest prosperity in human history, as a “poison.”

 

In paragraph 58, Pope Francis argues that reform requires “an energetic change of attitude on the part of political leaders.”   That directly contradicts Jesus’ strategy of changing individual hearts one soul at a time.  The Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.pdf was titled “The Joy of Evangelism.”  If Francis had stayed focused on encouraging evangelism that would have served both God and Man.  The Catholic Church does not seem to truly believe that evangelism can improve society.

 

In paragraph 55, Francis blames poverty and unequal wealth on “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.”  But there was also poverty in Jesus’ day, when government tightly regulated the economy.

 

In paragraph 56, Francis argues for government management of business, condemning as sinful and as “tyranny” those who “reject the right of states, entrusted to watch for the common good, to exercise any form of control” over the economy.   Paragraphs 58 and 205 are similar.  The Pope says that capitalism “tends to devour everything in order to yield increased profits.”

 

In John 18:36, “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’”   Everyone kept confusing what Jesus was saying as being political, to change government leaders or its philosophy.  In Acts 1, the disciples wanted to know if – finally – Jesus was going to change the governance of Israel by overthrowing the Romans.   Jesus rebuffed such ideas:

 

Acts 1:  “⁶ So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, ‘Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?’  ⁷ He said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; ….’” 

 

In paragraphs 57 and 203, Pope Francis decries capitalism for its “manipulation and debasement of the person.”  Yet that is exactly what socialism does.  Only capitalism exalts the individual amidst personal liberty and allows each person to achieve his or her full potential.

 

Worst of all, this controversy encourages misery, poverty, and the destruction of human lives.  Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world.   It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism, meaning government meddling in private lives.

 

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

Exclusive: Jonathon Moseley sets pope straight on Bible's condemnation of socialism
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/jesus-christ-is-a-capitalist/#TOaxruRiPXGUxBu3.99

A Liberal's Version of "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" [Scrooge]

Ironically, a very old version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol' is just playing on television, while the world is debating Pope Francis' attacks on capitalism.

So what exactly happens in the story of Scrooge?

At the end, Scrooge VOLUNTARILY chooses to give some of his wealth to his employee's family and to others in his neighborhood.

By contrast, note what did NOT happen.  Nobody came and took anything of Scrooge's by force.   In fact, the entire drama centers around persuading Scrooge to voluntarily change his outlook.  What we don't see is any government involvement or role.

Jon Moseley responds to ITALIAN MEDIA -- "Vatican Insider"

PUBLISHED IN Canada Free Press DECEMBER 7, 2013

The Vatican Insider newspaper  in Italy reported my comments responding to Pope Francis that “Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven hearing Christians espouse a socialist philosophy that has created suffering and poverty around the world.  It is impossible to love one’s neighbor as yourself without fighting against socialism,”  I hope to explain further and propose solutions.


Initially, at least this new Pope Francis is trying.  Francis obviously cares.  News reports say that Francis is sending the Vatican guards and other staff to go out at night within the City of Rome to help the homeless and the poor.  This is more than what many Catholic leaders have done.  It is light years ahead of what most Protestant leaders are doing.
As a Protestant myself, I will say that many Protestant Church leaders are no more than pop culture media stars and celebrities who promote themselves, tickle the ears of shallow people, and forget about Christ.  Surveys show that most Church leaders do not pray routinely.  The Book of Jude warns us against them. We should wish and pray that more leaders in all corners throughout the church will become as sincere and caring as Francis.  Of course, the conditions in Argentina and much of Latin America must change.

Catholic Church has officially warned against the dangers of dependence upon government.

But the Catholic Church has officially Warned against the dangers of dependence upon government.  Trusting in government is to reject God and to insult God.  God gives us the power to create wealth, we are told in Deuteronomy 8:18.  Jesus teaches us to expect God to provide for us.  It is a seductive lure and addictive narcotic to expect government to do the work of God or of God’s church.  Which is more powerful:  God’s anointed Church or bankrupt governments that are trillions of U.S. dollars in debt?  Are God’s arms too short to help us?

But should we do nothing, then? 

First, the Vatican is wealthy.  Let the Catholic Church loan money to the poor or to middle class in poor regions to start businesses or expand businesses.  Impersonal banks cannot provide the continuing pastoral care, help, counseling, and advice to help people succeed that a Catholic Opportunity Fund could provide.  Naturally, Catholics can steer funds to businesses that will hire those who need jobs on fair terms and behave morally.

Second, lack of education or practical skills (vocational) training is one of the greatest causes of poverty.  No institution has done more than the Catholic Church to improve education.  But this priority has been forgotten, it seems.  The United States spends more money for each student than any other country, and receives very bad results.  In the past in the U.S.A., non-Catholics often sent their children to Catholic schools to ensure a good, quality future for their children.  But proven techniques are being discarded for the latest experimental fantasies.  In some cases, training on practical skills is more important.  Jesus of course, was a carpenter.

Third, the Pope has a popular and powerful name.  Calling on the rich to voluntarily donate to programs that will improve the lives of everyone would be a good thing.  Bill Clinton raised, I believe, around a billion dollars, although I don’t know what the Clinton Foundation is doing with that money.  Pope Francis is capable of doing the same or better.

Fourth, the Bible speaks often about injustice in the law courts.  Where Pope Francis sees unacceptable corruption and oppression of the poor, perhaps the Vatican could consider speaking out for reform in legal systems and courts.  What the government does, that no one else can do, it should do properly and well.

Fifth, Jesus warned us to trust in God to provide our needs.  Practical action is proper.  The Book of James tells us that faith without actions is dead.  But actions without faith are also dead.  People can easily forget the need to openly, actively, aggressively trust in God to solve their problems.  Jesus warned “Apart from Me you can do nothing.”

Pope Pius XI: No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist

Pope Pius XI issued an authoritative Encyclical to the Catholic Church “Quadragesimo Anno”, which officially proclaimed in paragraph 120 of “Quadragesimo Anno,” that socialism “is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity.  Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”

Pope Pius XI also authoritatively pronounced:  “Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.”  And in paragraph 10, he added that “socialism … proposing a remedy far worse than the evil itself, would have plunged human society into great dangers.”

Lack of Leadership in the Republican Party

GEORGE W. BUSH told us that he was a COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE -- insulting conservatives as if we are not.

So what is "W" doing in retirement? Building houses for the poor like Carter? Nope. Raising money for charity like Bill Clinton? Nope. He is painting pictures of Barney his dog.

 I think traditional conservatives were always a lot more compassionate than George W Bush, Karl Rove, or that whole crew. So pleased that you are learning to paint in your retirement, George W Bush. Could you sell some of those paintings and give the money to the poor?

YOU -- W - lectured us about being more compassionate.

Similarly, Does anyone else think that SARAH PALIN keeps playing "SMALL BALL?" She could be headlining fund-raising dinners or campaigning for Republicans for 2014. Instead she is hawking her Christmas recipe book. Christmas is good.

But SARAH PALIN keeps AIMING LOW. She could be reshaping the country at a dangerous moment in our history. Instead she is selling a recipe book.

YES, THAT IS NOW. It is probably 6 months LATE. Getting organized and raising money for campaigns NOW -- 6 months ago even -- will decide who the Republican nominees will be in 2014

Jesus Hates Socialism: The Alyona Show interviews Jerry Newcombe and questions Christian documentary against socialism

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If young people reject the opinions of experts that marijuana can be dangerous, why would they believe experts who tell them that humans are causing global warming?

Concerning Mitch McConnell's war on the tea party, Erick Erickson states that “the Senate Conservatives Fund has only helped nominate two Tea Party candidates, who went on to lose the general election.” In contrast, he points out, “On the other hand, Mitch McConnell supported Rick Berg, Denny Rehberg, Carly Fiorina, Linda McMahon, George Allen, and Tommy Thompson. All lost to Democrats.”

This leads to Erickson’s question: “So some enterprising reporter should ask Mitch McConnell this question: Given that the Senate Conservatives Fund has a better record than Mitch McConnell of getting Republicans elected to the Senate, shouldn’t he be supporting Matt Bevin?”




Psychological projection was described by Sigmund Freud as an immature “defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously rejects his or her own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world.” (Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II, p. 132)

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