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God Versus Socialism Joel McDurmon 9780984064182 Books

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God owns everything. That is is the biblical view "The earth is the Lord's, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it" (Ps. 241). God delegated ownership and dominion of property to his Image, man (Gen 126-28). God sanctioned the protection of private property in His law-the Ten Commandments-including a prohibition of theft (Ex. 2015). Jesus (Matt. 1918) and the Apostles (Acts 5; Eph. 428) upheld this law. The biblical witness is clear God believes in private property, and He not only desires us but commands us to live by that rule as well. Socialism is the belief that private property is a bad idea. Socialists believe that governments should own most or all property and distribute it as government experts, scientists, politicians, or occasionally voters see fit. Under socialism, the State puts itself in the place of God and says, "The earth is the State's, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it." Between these two systems-private property and socialism-there exists fundamental confl ict. They are fundamental rival religious systems. Choosing one, you reject the other. Either God commands and judges man, or man commands and judges man. This book illustrates this war of worldviews in the economic and political realm, and argues the necessity and superiority of choosing God over humanism's false god, socialism, in all its many forms.

God Versus Socialism Joel McDurmon 9780984064182 Books

Tjis is an outstanding book. Truly a 5 star book.

Product details Paperback 245 pages Publisher American Vision (December 31, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0984064184

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God Versus Socialism Joel McDurmon 9780984064182 Books Reviews

I read through the first section of this work and then found that I had to put it away. I couldn't continue reading it. It was so poorly written and argued that the only thing holding the arguments together is the author's intense hatred of socialism and liberals; in a historical context, the author's viewpoints cannot actually stand.

I am going to refute only one point from the book, though I could refute many, many more. The author states that public schools are thievery and go against the biblical model of education, which is that the family and church is to educate the child. The author also claims that the founding fathers (for which he evicts a reverence that borders on religious devotion) would hate the idea of socialism. And that public schools are a socialist exercise in indoctrinating students to be socialists themselves.

I actually have no problem with his final point. Public schooling as it is done in the US is, indeed, socialist in nature. And it does have problems; but it also works. Literacy rates in the US are nearly universal. Literacy rates before the founding of public schools in the eighteenth-century in places like England were only around 50% by mid-century. They were even lower in places like France. Public schooling has brought basic learning skills to almost the entire country - in a system where the very poor cannot afford to send their children to school on their own, how will these children learn to read and write? Only through extreme effort on the part of the child could this be done. Literacy rates shot up with the expansion of public schooling. McDurmon, the author of a book written with words, has decades of public schooling to thank for a society where almost everyone is free to read his book. Public schooling in America is a place where a socialist idea has benefits for society at large.

McDurmon implies that some people get a free education on the backs of the property owners of society, which is robbery; somehow the author believes that landlords do not pass along the cost of taxes to their renters. This is, of course, silly. Everyone who pays money to live somewhere pays for schools. I suppose that homeless children are entitled to a free education as they do not pay in any way for property taxes; McDurmon sees this as an affront to his rights, that his tax dollars give the poorest of the poor a chance to learn; that this is seen as a diminishing of his own freedoms tells you all that you need to know about the Christian character of the author.

Additionally, the author frequently holds up the Founding Fathers as almost semi-divine figures, without blame or error, who would weep for the state of today's America, because of how socialist we all are. Of course, in 1798, a Congress with five Founding Fathers, and a President John Adams, required all US seamen to purchase government run health-insurance. Which sounds rather like forced socialized healthcare to me. Because it is.

However, since the authors' comments rest so very heavily on his own interpretation of Christianity, a better example proves itself, one which is directly linked to the founding of public schools. In 1647, the Puritans in Massachusetts established a law that required all towns of more than 50 families to hire a schoolmaster and establish schools to teach reading and writing (Don't believe me? Do a google search for the "The Old Deluder Act" or "The Old Deluder Satan Law" of 1647.). These schools were commonly at least partially publicly funded, usually through rental fees on pieces of property. Now, admittedly, these schools were not totally publicly funded, as most also required some sort of payment from the families of the students who attended them, and they were not open to everyone; typically they were only available to boys. However, any town that refused to open a school was fined and the money went to the nearest town that had a school -- forced redistribution of money specifically used for a socialist purpose. The Puritans, a group of early Americans who were the most concerned with the founding of a Christian society, established publicly funded schools. What are we to make of this? How are we to fit this into McDurmon's book? We cannot. It flies in the face of his insistence that the founders hated socialism and that Christians must see that public schools are thievery.

Here I have laid out a single, glaring problem with the author's views and his inability to consider historical context. At one point he admits that he cannot bother to explain the Christian alternative to socialism during the nineteenth century, as it is beyond his study. His problem is probably related to the fact that Christians of the nineteenth-century and earlier lived before Ayn Rand founded her particular version of Libertarianism that has somehow come sneaking into modern American Evangelical Christianity (This is strange, because Rand was an avowed opponent to Christianity, and her theories are a reaction against the very idea of Christian charity, which she saw as weakness.). They also lived before Marxism. It is very hard to be against an ideology that does not exist yet.

How can this book deal with a Christ who says things like "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise" (Luke 311), "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Matthew 1921), or who tells a parable about a rich man going to Hades for the crime of not giving food to a poor man (Luke 1619-31). It, of course, cannot. In fact, some of the very verses used from the New Testament to support his views on private property actually encourage socialism -- Ephesians 428 reads in the ESV "Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need" which seems to imply that the point of owning things is to be able to give them away, whereas Acts 5 is the story of how two people pretended to participate in what was going on at the end of Acts 4 "32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need" (ESV). In essence, Acts 5 is the punishment of two Christians who insisted on private property rights when all of the Christians held property in common. The theft of Ananias and Sapphira was in not giving away all of their property to the church -- they refused to buy into the Christian socialism that the apostles established. Somehow this version of socialism doesn't count, though. Because of reasons.

This book is awful as a piece of scholarship and awful as a piece of theology.
Every so often, a book comes along which challenges preconceived notions, and illuminates essential truths to a world that is quickly losing it's way. "God vs Socialism" is a game-changer for anyone who wants to get to the bottom of what "Socialism" means - not only to the individual, but to the nation as a whole. If you have any interest in governmental issues, or American history, you won't regret discovering the fascinating knowledge contained within. Highly recommended!
Common sense, easy to read and it made it very clear what socialism is. Thankyou
This is a must read for anyone seeking a clear-cut analysis of how Socialism is totally incompatible with the principles and values of a Biblical worldview. With the election of 2008, a myriad of Democratic Socialists were ushered not only into elected office but also into a block of power bordering on tyranny. The challenge for them to retain power and achieve their "fundamental transformation of America" is largely contingent on their ability to convince Americans to embrace their policies by labeling them as forms of "social justice" or the fulfillment of a "new social gospel." Most recently this issue has been brought into the spotlight by Glenn Beck, and McDurmon's book delves deeply into this hotly debated issue by likewise rising above party politics to clearly show that socialism violates the Biblical worldview that God, not the government, is King. This book is also well-documented with scriptural and subject indexes. As the Progressive-controlled government is now actively seeking to engage the faith-based community in pushing through their openly socialistic agenda, every Christian needs to glean from this book the Biblical principles and values that will equip them with the spiritual knowledge and boldness to oppose it.
_God Versus Socialism_ is by Joel McDurmon of The American Vision, an organization with a mission to restore America to its biblical foundation. In this book, McDurmon briefly lays out a biblical view of civil government and property, contrasting this with modern Christian socialism, what he calls the "new Social Gospel" movement.

The original Social Gospel movement came on the scene in the late 1800s/early 1900s when liberal Christians sought to persuade Christians of socialist values and policies by appealing to the Bible and Jesus. The modern-day proponents of this movement include Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, and Ron Sider.

In the first half of the book, McDurmon quickly establishes a Christian reconstructionist view of civil government (limited/small), property rights (pro), and individual responsibility. He then offers commentary on the inroads socialism is making in the United States today. McDurmon makes clear that both Republicans and Democrats have bought into socialist ideas.

In the second half of the book, McDurmon critiques Wallis, Campolo, and Sider demonstrating the lack of biblical authorization for their proposed roles for civil government, specifically tax-and-spend government/wealth redistribution.

McDurmon's main thesis throughout is that "You cannot apply one principle of Scripture (help the poor) so that it negates another fundamental law of Scripture (you shall not steal) and then call such a system Christian." (p. 220)

Some issues I found to be treated too briefly but, on the whole, _God Versus Socialism_ is a useful critique of socialism in general and baptized socialism in particular.
Tjis is an outstanding book. Truly a 5 star book.