Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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 

I would argue otherwise. The whole point of religion is to control 
people "now", in order to save them "later", in some vague sense. So.. 
Might be more accurate to say that the intent of the two differs in that 
government socialism attempts to make real life better, while often 
getting it wrong, while church socialism tries to make the after life 
better, and usually doesn't much care if they get the here and now 
wrong, as long as the goal of making the afterlife better is reached 
(case in point, the number of wackos that insist that lying is OK, as 
long as it helps convert more people to Jesus, which is a "higher" truth 
than the mere trivia of what ever they lied about).

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