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Altfish
Veteran Member
Well, JC would not have voted for right wing parties; he hated the money lenders and wanted to feed all.
So, if voting for socialism is an outcome, we would have a better world.
Regiomontanus
Eastern Orthodox
Our economic system is, IMHO, incompatible with his teachings. That is why I am a Christian socialist and pacifist.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I wouldn't want jesus to be head of anything. He'd insult all the "pagans." But I would be a bit surprised who he choses as believers. Society would be more divided.
epronovost
Well-Known Member
It would be a deeply impoverished society of rural people living off gardening and herding small animal with a very low technical development when it comes to science, engineering, medecine and the arts. It would be very equalitarian though and very peaceful and united. It's possible to create such society, many tribal culture looked very much like that, but they would be basically an easy prey for any imperialist nation after their territory.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
This may sound crazy, but it might be possible that I might have originated the "WWJD?" thingy sometime in the early 1980's or so.
I taught potential adult converts coming into our local Catholic church, and I had a quiz or 10 or so questions that I'd give them asking what their responses would be under certain Catch-22 situations. After taking their quiz, I then asked them to answer what they thought Jesus would do under these same situations. Obviously, many changed their answers on some of the questions. The title of this was "WWJD?", which was at the top of their sheet, but I didn't explain what the letters stood for at first.
One the candidates liked the exercise so much she sent a letter to a priest in California she knew, and he used that program. A couple of years later the "WWJD?" thingy was being used nationally. However, I have no idea if that could be traced back to my program.
Needless to say, I haven't received any $ for it.
BTW, to your question in the OP, depending on how it would be handled, it could not only help a society but also make it more humane.
Did you guys notice that the RCC in the past used to do all the opposite of what Jesus did?
Jesus forgave the adulterer; the Vatican used to execute heretics and witches. Jesus forgave the good thief on the cross...the Vatican denied mercy to many, during those dark ages.
So I think that when a religion goes political, it forgets Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was a pacifist. He stopped Peter when he tried to defend him with the sword from the Roman soldiers.
If all Christians behaved exactly like Jesus, there would be no wars. There would be more social justice.
So answering the question, yes...it would be a better place.
Jesus forgave the adulterer; the Vatican used to execute heretics and witches. Jesus forgave the good thief on the cross...the Vatican denied mercy to many, during those dark ages.
So I think that when a religion goes political, it forgets Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was a pacifist. He stopped Peter when he tried to defend him with the sword from the Roman soldiers.
If all Christians behaved exactly like Jesus, there would be no wars. There would be more social justice.
So answering the question, yes...it would be a better place.
Likely a bunch of religious hermits living off of handouts.
I don't think Jesus would have been able to organize a labor force very well. Paul OTOH would have probably been pretty good at this.
Sure but it would look a lot different. Rather than a society based on greed with it's worship of money along with an ever increasing gap between rich and poor, we'd have a society based on compassion where people would automatically and from the heart help each other.
Rather than business treating employees as machinery, we'd have businesses embracing a mission of treating employees as being as valuable as C-suite people.
Audie
Veteran Member
Jesus' teachings have an eschatological meaning. So have his miracles.
When he multiplied the loaves and the fish, he just meant that we can all multiply resources through hard work, so there is never shortage of anything.
Because we have free will and we can do anything.
Also Capitalism...why not?
Which does not exclude Socialism, btw
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It certainly wouldn't help the advancement of the sciences.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
A lot of our rights would be lost.
Jesus lived on the fringes of society.
Having an entire society of people on the fringes of society strikes me as s contradiction in terms.
Because we have free will folks won't do "anything". They'll do what they want to.
Folks have to be willing to share freely their hard work. Some would be willing, but I don't think enough to keep society rolling.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm glad you said "in the past" as I could never have converted to Catholicism prior to Vatican II for the reason you well said above.
There has never been the axiom Catholicism=Vatican.
After all many saints are from that period.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Which is apparently why they missed me.