You’ve heard of “legitimate
rape,” now meet its state-sanctioned cousin, “legitimate robbery.” Or, at
least, hear it in the euphemized form pronounced by the People’s Pope, Pope
Francis: “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State.”
For those of you mainstreamers
who actually believed the media when they condemned Sarah Palin for calling
this guy a “liberal”—folks, that was mild, and for whatever her faults and
foibles otherwise may be, Palin should never have apologized for that
statement. And for those of you, also, who actually believed this Pope when he assured the world he is
no communist—only “caring for the poor”—well, let’s talk a little bit about
walking and quacking, shall we?
Whether something wears the label of “communist,” or “socialist,” or
“liberal,” or not, doesn’t matter. What matters is substance of their social
ethics. As I argue throughout God vs. Socialism, the moment the state
begins to redistribute wealth for any reason other than punishment for crime
(and that only in very specified ways), it is defying the biblical doctrine of
private property, defying biblical law, defying God. I label such activity by
the state “socialism,” and I argue it applies across the board whether any
given version of the practice meets certain technical definitions of
“socialism,” “communism,” “liberation theology,” etc., used by some today.
I don’t care about the labels. I care about the substance.
