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Happy Birthday to Jesus, the Anti-Imperialist Socialist! by The Anti-Social Socialist
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Merry Christmas!
“All I want for Christmas is the abolition of imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy!”
by The Anti-Social Socialist
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published Dec. 24, 2017
December 24, 2018
Rev. Chris Hedges: Christmas, Charity, Anti-Empire and the Revolutionary Jesus
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Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay.
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What is Socialism? A Historical and Modern Perspective
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by The Anti-Social Socialist
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 24, 2018
Reach Out on Sep 18, 2018
On last Thursday’s (9.13.18) special edition of Reach Out, we asked, “What is socialism?” In a discussion ranging from the juxtaposition of socialism and religion, cooperation vs. competition in humanity’s origins, and how class is what primarily divides people, Bill and I, along with special guest Matt Reedy, barely scratched the surface of answering that question but realized its enormity and complexity.
Michael Hudson: Jesus Would Have Cancelled The Debt But Obama Bailed Out Wall Street
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 14, 2018
With Max Keiser on the history of debt from the Bronze Age onwards. Max poses the question, has a historical precedent been set with the bailing out of creditors, not debtors in 2008?
Our Identity is Found in Christ, Not Dead Presidents by Shawn S. Grandstaff
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by Shawn S. Grandstaff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 26, 2018
The Early Christians and the Military by Roman A. Montero
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by Roman A. Montero
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Oslo, Norway
May 23, 2018
In modern times it may not even seem like an issue if a Christian can or cannot serve in the military, clearly Christians today and for many centuries do, so what would the issue be? On the other hand, anyone who has honestly read the gospels must recognize that the issue of violence is at the very least problematic in Jesus’s teachings. One would simply have to point to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:38–47) or the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:27–31), or his teaching on the one taking the sword dying by the sword (Matthew 26:52), to recognize that Jesus tended to reject violence.
Art Katz: The Cross of Christ
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1nemind on Oct 5, 2014
“Empty entertainment/worship sung by pretty people. Doctrinally-correct sermons devoid of power. Sunday-only Christian lives barely distinguishable from the world. All these and many more ills are symptoms of a disease Art clearly identifies in this message. It’s such a fundamental thing, our understanding of the cross. It’s an indictment of our lives and the current impotence of the church. In the final analysis, unless we know Christ and Him crucified, our knowledge of God will be false.”
Roman A. Montero: Early Christian Communism
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Updated: Feb. 23, 2018
by Roman A. Montero
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Oslo, Norway
February 22, 2018
I recently did an interview with Stephen Bedard on the History of Christianity podcast, also on youtube about my book All Things in Common: The Economic Practices of the Early Christians. I hope you enjoy it.
Jesus and the Abolition of the Courts by Roman A. Montero
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by Roman A. Montero
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Oslo, Norway
January 28, 2018
Probably the most famous parable by Jesus is the parable of the speck in your brother’s eye as opposed to the beam in your eye. Often this parable is taken to simply be about not being a hypocrite and not being personally judgmental against other individuals. However, this saying was not only used by Jesus and the early Christians, it was also a saying within rabbinic Judaism—seeing how they used it can shed some light on what Jesus meant with it. The saying is recorded the sermon on the plain in Luke 6:41–42:
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Happy Birthday to Jesus, the Anti-Imperialist Socialist!
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Merry Christmas!
Dec. 24, 2017
Rev. Chris Hedges: Christmas, Charity, Anti-Empire and the Revolutionary Jesus + Transcript
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Originally published Dec. 24, 2014
with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay.
Jesus against Hillel on Usury by Roman A. Montero
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by Roman A. Montero
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Oslo, Norway
June 15, 2017
I would argue that the best summation of Christian ethics is found in the sermon on the plain in Luke 6:20–49. What I love about the sermon on the plain is just how radical it seems on the surface, it seems almost impossible; however, when you think about what it’s saying, and think about it deeply—it makes sense. Probably my favorite example of this is found in Luke 6:34–35 (NRSV):
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Jesus of Nazareth
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Happy Easter!
Originally posted Oct 21, 2009
Jesus of Nazareth miniseries
Wikipedia
Jesus of Nazareth (Italian: Gesù di Nazareth) is a 1977 British-Italian television miniseries co-written (with Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d’Amico) and directed by Franco Zeffirelli which dramatizes the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus largely according the Christian Bible’s New Testament Gospels. It was filmed in Tunisia, Morocco, and Mexico and was produced by Lew Grade and Vincenzo Labella on a budget of an estimated US$12 million to $18 million.
The Gospel of Luke
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The Gospel According to Luke (Greek: Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον, to kata Loukan euangelion), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.[1]
