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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 427 Was Jesus a Socialist?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's not uncommon to hear it said that Jesus was a socialist and that the early Church practiced socialism. None of this is true, and our guest takes us through all the key claims.

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 427.

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In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

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Now is not that time.

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And Republicans have abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

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You need a voice of liberty.

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Look no further.

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You've found it. Tom Woods. Beware, citizen, you are now

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departing from the world of allowable opinion. The Tom Woods Show.

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Everybody, Tom Woods here.

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Talking today about whether Jesus Christ was a socialist.

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This subject actually comes up, believe it or not.

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You see it in social media.

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And the assumption is that Christ was a socialist, because after all, didn't he rail against the rich? And didn't he urge that people help the poor? And so naturally, that means he was a socialist, because after all, didn't he rail against the rich, and didn't he urge that

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people help the poor? And so naturally, that means he was a socialist, and some of his followers

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shared their worldly goods, and so on and so forth. So we've got to sort this out, and joining

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us to do this is Larry Reed, the author of a recent article that got a tremendous amount of attention on this

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very subject. And it's called Rendering Unto Caesar, was Jesus a Socialist? So of course,

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we will be linking to that on today's show notes page, which is tomwoods.com slash 427.

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Remember, I release a new episode every single weekday, so make sure and join me

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for your daily serving of liberty education to make yourself a smarter libertarian and a better

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debater. Subscribe to the show for free, of course, over at tomwoods.com via the iTunes or Stitcher

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links so that you don't miss an episode. Larry Reed is the

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