What was up with today's first reading? (communism)

[Tis_Bearself]

It sounds like the early communities of European Americans were more like communal living. Every able body was valued and everyone worked together to build, heal, worship, put out the fires and fight the Natives.

They pretty much had to live that way in order to survive. If people didn’t all work together, they would die. Very few people could go off on their own and survive, and those who did were mostly single men who learned skills from the natives and wouldn’t have been able to watch over a wife and children while they were busy living a survivalist lifestyle.

 

[Pup7]

guanophore:

It sounds like the early communities of European Americans were more like communal living. Every able body was valued and everyone worked together to build, heal, worship, put out the fires and fight the Natives.

They pretty much had to live that way in order to survive. If people didn’t all work together, they would die. Very few people could go off on their own and survive, and those who did were mostly single men who learned skills from the natives and wouldn’t have been able to watch over a wife and children while they were busy living a survivalist lifestyle.

That is what I thought.

 

[Vico]

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Jesus said “the poor you will always have with you”, and indeed this has been the case. In medieval times, those who had lost everything might show up at a monastery, asking to be taken into the community. They were always given the hardest jobs and made to work longer hours to test their tenacity.

Two monks I know collected a little nest egg while in the Monastery (still not sure how that was done) and after some years, moved out and got an apartment. They had been doing the bulk of the physical labor for the monastery for years and were tired of it.

Interesting that they were tested for tenacity. Reminds me of Matthew 25:29 For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

 

[philipl]

Eminent domain refers to the power of a state or the federal government to take private property for public use while requiring “just” compensation.