Recently, I was reading the Communist Manifesto, and I came across this excerpt:<\/p>\n
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This got me thinking.<\/p>\n
I realize that to some of the earlier LDS prophets consider communism to be antithetical to Christianity, but I wonder given Jesus\u2019s role as a Jewish revolutionary, if communists today would have supported him (or rather his movement).<\/p>\n
I suppose when we think of communists and revolutionaries, we tend to imagine people more violent than Jesus. However, that doesn\u2019t mean Jesus wasn\u2019t a revolutionary.<\/p>\n
One of Jesus\u2019s purposes in coming to earth was to fulfill the law of Moses (see Matt. 5:17), an entirely revolutionary act. And when he brought about his changes through his teachings (see Matt. 5:22\u201348, for example) and his acts, he was ridiculed, persecuted, and eventually put to death because he dared to challenge the norms and traditions of the society in which he lived.<\/p>\n
Sounds like a revolutionary to me.<\/p>\n
So, if communists would support Jesus (or his movement) as a revolutionary (as implied by the quote above), I wonder what Jesus would say about the communists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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