bmoore wrote:
David P. wrote:
The Key Difference Between Jesus and a Socialist
Letters, May 9, 2022, WSJ
Prof. Alexander William Salter’s “Jesus a Socialist? That’s a Myth”
(Houses of Worship, April 22) is certainly correct. But the reason
is even simpler than Mr. Salter’s explanation. Nowhere in the
Christian scriptures does Jesus teach, urge or even remotely suggest
that the power of the state should be enlisted to enforce his teachings about the poor or any other subject. If anything, quite the contrary. While certain clerics may prefer socialism, that is only the sociopolitical view of individuals.
--Terrance J. Nolan, Lynbrook, N.Y.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jesus-socialist-christian-state-11652072154
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's".
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EINSTEIN QUOTES:
"Look deep into nature, and then you will
understand everything better."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
"Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized."
"Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A man should look for what is, and not for
what he thinks should be."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and
the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain
too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that
I stay with problems longer."
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive."
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of
what nature has revealed to us."
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by
lip service to an ideal."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions
which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest
of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of
your diagrams and equations."
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been
successful and then only for a short while."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has
merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life
artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go.
I will do it elegantly."
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature and its beauty."
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
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