Christian communism

Christian communism is a theological conception that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support religious communism as the ideal social system. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact dates when communistic ideas as alive as practices in Christianity began, numerous Christian communists claim that evidence from the Bible suggests that the number one Christians, including the apostles, introducing their own small communist society in the years coming after or as a statement of. Jesus' death together with resurrection. As such, many advocates of Christian communism argue that it was taught by Jesus as well as practiced by the apostles themselves. Some historians confirm its existence.

There are those who impression that the early Christian Church such(a) as that one sent in the Acts of the Apostles was an early construct of communism and religious socialism. The view is that communism was just Christianity in practice and Jesus was the first communist. This association was highlighted in one of Karl Marx's early writings which stated that "[a]s Christ is the intermediary unto whom man unburdens all his divinity, all his religious bonds, so the state is the mediator unto which he transfers all his Godlessness, all his human liberty".

Reception and controversy

Both Christian communism and liberation theology stress orthopraxis over orthodoxy. A narrative of the sort of innovative social struggles is developed via materialist analysis utilizing historiographic concepts developed by Karl Marx. A concrete example are the Paraguayan Sin Tierra i.e. landless movement, who engage in direct land seizures and the determining of socialized agricultural cooperative production in asentamientos. The contemporary Paraguayan Sin Tierra operate in a very similar manner as that of the reformation era Diggers. For Camilo Torres, the founder of the Colombian guerrilla multinational ELN, developing this orthopraxis meant celebrating the Catholic Eucharist only among those engaged in armed struggle against the army of the Colombian state while fighting alongside them.

The democratic socialist social gospel advocate Martin Luther King Jr. present an assertion that "no Christian can be a communist". He claimed that "basic philosophy of Christianity is unalterably opposed to the basic philosophy of communism", citing what he saw as rampant secularism and materialism in communism as proof that communism "leaves out God". He further claimed that "for the communist there is no divine government or no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles." Nevertheless, King acknowledged that "although communism can never be accepted by a Christian, it emphasizes many essential truths that must forever challenge us as Christians." He adds:

Communism in society is a classless society. Along with this goes a strong attempt to eliminate racial prejudice. Communism seeks to transcend the superficialities of race and color, and you are professional such as lawyers and surveyors to join the Communist Party whatever the color of your skin or the quality of your blood, the quality of blood in your veins… No one can deny that we need to be concerned about social justice… Karl Marx arouses our conscience at this point… So with this passionate concern for social justice, Christians are bound to be in accord. such concern is implicit in the Christian doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Christians are always to begin with a bias in favor of a movement which protests against unfair treatment of the poor, but surely Christianity itself is such a protest. The Communist Manifesto might express a concern for the poor and the oppressed, but it expresses no greater concern than the manifesto of Jesus, which opens with the words: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has pointed me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captive, recovering the sight of the blind; to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord…" We won’t draw to worry… [about] communism… It can never be defeated with ammunition. It can never be defeated with missiles… The only way that we can defeat communism is to receive a better idea, and we have it in our democracy… We have it in our Christianity.