What do Christian scripture and Communism have in common? At Daylight Atheism, Adam Lee explains: [1]
The Bible goes so far as to say that the first community of Christians weren’t just socialists, but communists:
“And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.”
—Acts 2:44-45
By some accounts, this verse is what inspired Karl Marx’s dictum, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Irony of ironies: Communism began in the pages of the Bible!
The above is an excerpt from a post titled “Why We Should Tax the Churches,” and Lee develops this theme in detail, dovetailing with the modern-day struggle between the 1% and the 99%. He isn’t shy about bluntly stating why:
Even when it begins among the poor and disenfranchised, religion almost always ends up being co-opted by the wealthy and powerful and used as a convenient excuse to justify inequality.
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