Christian Socialism Quotes

Jesus the Socialist

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

The largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the United States is composed of Protestant Clergymen.

Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

Christ is a new man. The new man is a Soviet man. Therefore Christ is a Soviet man!

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.

If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.

I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.