Hording Or Sharing

THERE IS A CONNECTION, a strong one, between the American conservative movement, patriotism, and the christian faith. This is because conservatism is tradition, resistance to change, and liberalism is innovation and change, which its adherents consider to be progress, hence the term "progresssivism". The words themselves convey the difference. When you think of someone being conservative with money, for instance, you think of someone whose money does not change hands readily. A liberal spender is one whose money flies out of the pocket book with great haste. The money changes hands. A conservative offense tends to use tactics which are tried and true, and do not rock the boat, so to speak. Conservative Americans believe that people should be free to earn and spend money however they choose, free of government regulation, and they should be free to make as much money as they can, without the government confiscating it. To render unto Caesar is not the conservative way, though it seems apparent that Jesus was not only a liberal, but a socialist as well. He encouraged voluntary monetary and material modesty, and he encouraged paying taxes. Jesus was a hard core redistributionist. In america, the more conservative one is, the more devoted to the christian faith, generally, and the more devoted to the attainment of personal wealth, generally. Socialism is cooperation, capitalism is competition. You might think that socialism and Christianity go well together, but there is less tradition in sharing of wealth than hording it. What would Jesus do today? Would he encourage us to horde our wealth, or to share it with others? Would he encourage charitable giving, and discourage government confiscation and redistribution of wealth, or would he encourage both? we'll never know, because he was tortured to death so that those who believe he was tortured to death to atone for our sins might convince themselves that their sins have been forgiven, even though the effects of previous mistakes linger, and cannot be reversed, but only ameliorated and corrected.