The article reads:
"The Republican influencers who disseminate the fallacy of biblical capitalism obscure the preindustrial agrarian contexts in which biblical texts were produced, ignore or downplay biblical texts that promote social justice through economic regulations and fail to reflect on their own agency as interpreters. When these right-wing interpreters identify “free market capitalism” in texts that often condone slavery and then proceed to disregard those biblical texts that call for the emancipation of (certain) slaves, they reveal their investment in a neoliberal ideology primed to perpetuate the very unjust social structures of which they are the beneficiaries."
The Torah permits/prescribes slavery for the Egyptians. One structural component of totalitarianism: the centralization of power to a single locus, enables Jacob's son Joseph to establish the first successful diaspora in Egypt which unfortunately does not provide a manumission for the Egyptians who (in the process of agricultural centralization) lose their land and their freedom. Joseph alerts the pharaoh of the coming famine and advises him to take a fifth of the land's produce from the farmers and store it in the cities during the years of plenty preceding the famine. Joseph does not warn the free land-owning Egyptian farmers of the coming famine, which quickly depletes their grain stores when it suddenly arrives. Joseph has centralized the storage of grain in Egypt so the Egyptians must trade their land and their freedom for food to survive.
Forced centralization of food storage during the U.S.S.R.s forced collectivization starved the Ukrainians during the Holodomor - an artificial famine of 1930-33.
"...This argument highlights one particular feature of many communist regimes- their systematic use of famine as a weapon.
"...In the period after 1918, only Communist countries experienced such famines which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions of people."
The Black Book of Communism, Harvard U. Press, 1999, page 9
Socialism centralizes after its redistribution system is established. Its cash flow is fought over until a single authority is left to redistribute and skim off the top unimpeded by rival authorities. Once socialism descends to the level of communism, collectivization confiscates all private ownership of property, and human beings trying to keep their homes are deliberately starved while American journalists like Will Duranty of the NY Times write: it didn't happen.
Communism's totalitarian centralization is as great a threat to the educated classes of today's nations as it was to Egypt's propertied classes, and that is precisely what Communism actually achieves for its host's educated classes: impoverishment with class or ethnic displacement or industrial scale murder. Since the inherent flaw of centralized authority in socialism/communism appears to preclude these ideologies as viable economic systems, I can only wonder at your "Republican Influencers" and their assertions. The American political system is one of decentralization, separation of powers, and checks and balances. It is not amenable to socialism or communism.
The article reads:
"Grudem describes liberals’ approaches to the Bible, however, as “distortions” that are “designed” to misrepresent the Bible in order to lead people away from “obeying” it. He says that liberal objections to the clear biblical teachings of conservatives “can all be answered, one at a time, by saying, ‘You are interpreting the Bible incorrectly at this point, and here are the reasons why’” (Grudem 2010: 56–57, my emphasis). According to Grudem, interpretation only imposes bias when the interpreter is a liberal."
Grudem is correct. Progressive sexual ideologies, when adopted, lower a population's total fertility rate. The prohibitions at Leviticus 18:19-24 of the Holiness Code in the book of Leviticus are the antithesis of progressive sexual ideology. Observing the Levitical prohibitions (as Christians and the Jewish orthodox do) raises a population's total fertility rate, but the heavy imposition of anti-Christian, anti-Holiness Code propaganda produced by the Leftist media and academia in support of progressive sexual ideology obscures the salient consideration: Are we to be or not to be?
It's a tough world out there now as it was an even tougher world when the biblical text was written, but evangelicals (your Republican influencers) I've seen, are for the most part, wonderful, humble people: unless roused, of course.
The article reads:
"The Republican influencers who disseminate the fallacy of biblical capitalism obscure the preindustrial agrarian contexts in which biblical texts were produced, ignore or downplay biblical texts that promote social justice through economic regulations and fail to reflect on their own agency as interpreters. When these right-wing interpreters identify “free market capitalism” in texts that often condone slavery and then proceed to disregard those biblical texts that call for the emancipation of (certain) slaves, they reveal their investment in a neoliberal ideology primed to perpetuate the very unjust social structures of which they are the beneficiaries."
The Torah permits/prescribes slavery for the Egyptians. One structural component of totalitarianism: the centralization of power to a single locus, enables Jacob's son Joseph to establish the first successful diaspora in Egypt which unfortunately does not provide a manumission for the Egyptians who (in the process of agricultural centralization) lose their land and their freedom. Joseph alerts the pharaoh of the coming famine and advises him to take a fifth of the land's produce from the farmers and store it in the cities during the years of plenty preceding the famine. Joseph does not warn the free land-owning Egyptian farmers of the coming famine, which quickly depletes their grain stores when it suddenly arrives. Joseph has centralized the storage of grain in Egypt so the Egyptians must trade their land and their freedom for food to survive.
Forced centralization of food storage during the U.S.S.R.s forced collectivization starved the Ukrainians during the Holodomor - an artificial famine of 1930-33.
"...This argument highlights one particular feature of many communist regimes- their systematic use of famine as a weapon.
"...In the period after 1918, only Communist countries experienced such famines which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions of people."
The Black Book of Communism, Harvard U. Press, 1999, page 9
Socialism centralizes after its redistribution system is established. Its cash flow is fought over until a single authority is left to redistribute and skim off the top unimpeded by rival authorities. Once socialism descends to the level of communism, collectivization confiscates all private ownership of property, and human beings trying to keep their homes are deliberately starved while American journalists like Will Duranty of the NY Times write: it didn't happen.
Communism's totalitarian centralization is as great a threat to the educated classes of today's nations as it was to Egypt's propertied classes, and that is precisely what Communism actually achieves for its host's educated classes: impoverishment with class or ethnic displacement or industrial scale murder. Since the inherent flaw of centralized authority in socialism/communism appears to preclude these ideologies as viable economic systems, I can only wonder at your "Republican Influencers" and their assertions. The American political system is one of decentralization, separation of powers, and checks and balances. It is not amenable to socialism or communism.
The article reads:
"Grudem describes liberals’ approaches to the Bible, however, as “distortions” that are “designed” to misrepresent the Bible in order to lead people away from “obeying” it. He says that liberal objections to the clear biblical teachings of conservatives “can all be answered, one at a time, by saying, ‘You are interpreting the Bible incorrectly at this point, and here are the reasons why’” (Grudem 2010: 56–57, my emphasis). According to Grudem, interpretation only imposes bias when the interpreter is a liberal."
Grudem is correct. Progressive sexual ideologies, when adopted, lower a population's total fertility rate. The prohibitions at Leviticus 18:19-24 of the Holiness Code in the book of Leviticus are the antithesis of progressive sexual ideology. Observing the Levitical prohibitions (as Christians and the Jewish orthodox do) raises a population's total fertility rate, but the heavy imposition of anti-Christian, anti-Holiness Code propaganda produced by the Leftist media and academia in support of progressive sexual ideology obscures the salient consideration: Are we to be or not to be?
It's a tough world out there now as it was an even tougher world when the biblical text was written, but evangelicals (your Republican influencers) I've seen, are for the most part, wonderful, humble people: unless roused, of course.