WHY SOCIALISM SUCKS and WILL SUCK

 

Friday of the Third Week of Easter.
John 6:52-59

Jesus - The Bread of Life

    The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate (manna) and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

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Meditation for Friday of the Third Week of Easter

Resignation
    While the Gospel today emphasizes the thought that we have no permanent abode in this world, it reminds us that we must adjust our lives to the plan which God made for us while we remain in this world.
    "Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake." - St. Paul

    When St. Paul tells us that we are to be subject to every human creature for the love of God, he means that it is in this world we must live... until the moment when we don't.
    But this does not imply that we should close our eyes to injustice, selfishness, and evil.
    The emphasis placed on a return to social justice by recent popes makes the mind of the Church clear on this point.
    We do indeed live in a vale of tears, and we know that we can never expect perfection in this world, but we can and must work toward an improvement of conditions in the world about us.
    Pope Leo XIII pointed out in his encyclical on the condition of labor, that it is not easy to define the relative rights of the rich and the poor. But, there are, nevertheless, certain definite principles which truth and justice dictates in controlling our relationships with our fellow men.

    
    However, the solutions proposed by the various forms of Socialism, are not it. They are not, and cannot, be accepted by the Church.


    At this point, the socialism fanboys of the world may ask,
Q. "Why?"
    Well, okay..., they are usually irate and yelling but they mean, "Why?"

The answer is actually simple, although the "socialists" will probably reject it. But here goes, anyway.

A. The reason the Church does not embrace socialism is because under the dubious garb of "humanitarianism," its proponents are, as St. Paul tells us in the Epistle, "making liberty a cloak for malice," despite their empty claims on behalf of liberty and justice.
    Inevitably what they mean is, "...adopt socialism... or else." When pushed to the wall, liberty and justice are merely rhetorical talking points for them.
    As Albert Camus once observed, "The welfare of the people, has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”

    Many of those who propose socialist plans to "better" mans living conditions, normally look upon Man as merely a part of animal creation..., one to be controlled by THEM, naturally.
    They forget that, yes, men DO have a right to a reasonable amount of comfort and happiness in this world, but, Man has a higher a duty to God, and to bear the cross so that he may earn an eternal reward for his labor.
    Speaking of false socialistic theories, Pope Leo XIII says:

"What is of still greater importance, however is that the remedy they propose is manifestly against justice. For every man has by nature the will and the right to obtain and possess property as his own.
    This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation. For the brute has no power of self direction, but is governed by two chief instincts which keep his powers alert, move him to use his strength, and determine him to action without the power of choice"
(Leo XIII, "On the Condition of Labor").

    Any plan for the improvement of the life of Man on earth must look upon men, "as servants of Gods Creation." The reformer and the social worker must first learn to "honor all men; love the brotherhood of Man under God, and honor God as a son loves his father."
    While St. Paul had great respect for authority and commands us to, "respect the king as excelling, and the governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers," he does not deify the State. Ever.
    He was once a slavish member of the State's, "hit squad," after all, so he knew the evil of doing THAT.
    It is an insidious mistake to suppose that the civil government has the right, at its own discretion, to penetrate and pervade the family and the home, to define and dictate the needs of Man.
    While the civil government does have a responsibility for caring for the welfare of its citizens, it does not have the right to control and dictate how they should live, as is being done in so many of the socialist welfare states of today. 

    Q. So who DOES have that right, if not Socialists who claim to work for "the good of all?"
    Here again, the answer is simple - and Socialists are once more out of the equation, because they are devoted to state control.
    A. The Church will not point out the errors of socialism; those are manifest since Socrates first commented on them.
    Rather, She points to the true remedy for social injustice and applies it to actual conditions.
    It is Her right to teach men and to train them through the instructions of her bishops and priests.
Through her teaching office she diffuses her salutary teachings far and wide.
    She strives to influence the minds and the hearts of men, so that they may willingly yield themselves to be formed and guided by the commandments of God.
    It is precisely in this fundamental matter that the Church has a power peculiar to herself. The agencies she employs for the improvement of human life in this world, are given her for the very purpose of reaching the hearts of men, by Jesus Christ Himself, and they derive their efficacy from God.


    In short, if the world of men would adopt the teachings of Christ through the Church He Himself founded - the Catholic Church - we would have little need of Socialists. They are just men of this world intent on imposing their own brand of control on their fellows.

    At this point, some Socialist always leaps up and shouts, "But Paul said that men are to... be subject therefore to every human creature. So, we expect them to be subject to our program for their own good," or words to that effect.

    I can hear Albert Camus right now?

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"The welfare of the people, has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
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    "Shout with joy to God, all the earth."
    There is the part the Socialist chooses to ignore - GOD.
Because what Paul said was that IF we are to be subject to creatures (Men), it is to be for the sake of God.
    Without that, we end up being subject to the whims of tyrants.

    The earth ought to be a place of joy and happiness, especially now that our redemption has been accomplished through the Resurrected Christ. Man has been redeemed - but he must allow himself to be regenerated through the grace of God.
    As long as men refuse to listen to the Church, and refuse to apply all the principles taught by Christ, there will continue to be social injustice, pain, and suffering in this world.
    Put another way, the inherent sins of MEN are the cause of these things, not God. Thus, Men cannot cure them with more of his own plans.
    It is futile to plan and establish world wide organizations for peace, caring, or what have you, if we continue to ignore the will of the God of Peace.

    Christ once sat on a hilltop outside the City of Jerusalem and wept over it for this very reason. In spite of all that He had done to turn it from its evil ways, it had been deaf to His pleading, His teachings, and even His miracles.

    He could foresee that the day would come when that beautiful city would be knocked to its knees for its wickedness.
    "If thou hadst known and that in this thy day, the things that are for thy Peace; but now they are hidden from thy eyes" (Luke 19:42).
    So too, Christ must look down upon the world today, and upon that great temple we have built for the United Nations in our frantic search for peace and say, "If thou hadst known the things that are for thy peace."
    All our elaborate equipment, all our rhetoric and sales pitches, all the detailed plans and demonstrations we go through are maybe commendable... and sometimes a bit of good comes from it. Hey, even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
    But it would be so much simpler, longer lasting, and far more effective for the people that socialists claim to care about, if everyone would only learn to obey the Ten Commandments.

— edited from Benedict Baur, OSB, The Light of the World, Vol. 2


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