On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:22 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Religious people are never against religious socialism, just secular
> government socialism. Why? Because the later they equate with Soviet
> Russia, China, North Korea, and other places [...]

That's quite possibly true, though it's interesting to me that there's a 
required 10% tithe in the LDS church (if you want to stay in good 
standing) that goes to funding the sorts of things I mentioned earlier - 
BYU tuition reductions, stocking the Bishops' storehouses, etc, etc, 
etc.  

The difference between "religious socialism" (I like that term) and 
"government socialism" is that the latter has control over your life in 
the here and now.  The former?  Well, that's just your eternal soul we're 
talking about - so doing it at that point is good for your eternal 
existence.  But as for taking care of people in the current existence, 
eh, screw 'em. ;-)

Jim

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