Chevalier
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This thread is based in a debate Technocratic Utilitarian started in another thread and to keep that thread pure I am starting that topic here. If you would like to see the origin of this discussion, we were in "Who Killed Jesus?" at about post #241. So I will begin if possible with where we left off and feel free to join in.
”That could probably be the issue at hand--a semantic one. The only reason I referred to it as "communism," is due to my texts. They stipulated a difference between marxist Communism and communism. I don't feel there is any connotation to the term communism that is intrinsically bad. I don't think Christianity is "Communism." I usually differentiate communalism/"communism" from Communism via a Capitalized C.”
The issue as I understand from textual studies is somewhat semantic, but also heavily historical. From that I did understand your differentiation. It is a matter of academic interpretation as well. See, whereas democracy has a definition in Greece, and ancient world presence, Athens, and can effectively be studied in ebb and flow from that time to the present; there is no corresponding historical definition of or reference to communism. That does not mean we cannot go back to early Christianity and see parallels. It means instead that “communism” as a concept per se had not been articulated yet, though as I said previously, there are clear contacts of thought. While those contacts exist, they are also lines of disconnect. This should get us started without being too long.
”That could probably be the issue at hand--a semantic one. The only reason I referred to it as "communism," is due to my texts. They stipulated a difference between marxist Communism and communism. I don't feel there is any connotation to the term communism that is intrinsically bad. I don't think Christianity is "Communism." I usually differentiate communalism/"communism" from Communism via a Capitalized C.”
The issue as I understand from textual studies is somewhat semantic, but also heavily historical. From that I did understand your differentiation. It is a matter of academic interpretation as well. See, whereas democracy has a definition in Greece, and ancient world presence, Athens, and can effectively be studied in ebb and flow from that time to the present; there is no corresponding historical definition of or reference to communism. That does not mean we cannot go back to early Christianity and see parallels. It means instead that “communism” as a concept per se had not been articulated yet, though as I said previously, there are clear contacts of thought. While those contacts exist, they are also lines of disconnect. This should get us started without being too long.