[CS-FSLUG] Linux Is Capitalism in Action

[Alan Trick]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 09:13 -0500, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> 
> Don Parris wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 13:03 -0700, Chris Brault wrote:
> >> Interesting,
> >>
> >>> Where socialism went wrong is that it tried to impose Righteous Thinking 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I submit that you might be looking at "government" in the wrong light
> > here.  It is true that there is no geographical "Christland".  Yet, I
> > submit that the Theocracy is very much alive, in the form of a loose
> > United Church.  Some of us may dwell in one of the Catholic, Protestant
> > or Pentecostal "states".  Yet we are united in following our
> > Priest-King, Jesus Christ, who is orchestrating his people - regardless
> > of our socio-political backgrounds - to accomplish quite amazing
> > things.  
> 
> I don't want to sound anything beyond this being a straight, fool's 
> question, (I Cor 4:10)
> 
> what is it we are we united on?
> 
> (beyond platitudes, please - practical life issues is what I would want 
> to know, because such knowledge would help me center my efforts)
> 
> Thanks

After I figured out that he wasn't talking about the United Church
(which is hardly even Christian) I realized that he was probably talking
about the catholic church (by catholic, I don't mean the Church of Rome,
but catholic). The catholic church is defined by three things:

  * the creeds (normally the nicean and apostles creeds)
  * a community
  * Jesus Christ

This is the church, everyone else is either a heretic or a pagan.

It's a concept that has been around since Christ ascended 2000 years
ago. Unfortunate the implementation hasn't been so good. It is not
kingdom in any normal sense of the word. That was the great mistake of
medieval Europe.

By the way, if you ever get your hands on a copy of C.S. Lewis' 'Mere
Christianity I heartily recommend it.

Alan Trick